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Professional Staff
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Professional staff are the engine of IFAD. They have excellent analytical and communication skills, substantive expertise and strong leadership capabilities. They are hired with a view to support IFAD's mission in the long term.
Positions in this category normally require an advanced university degree or, in some cases, a first-level university degree combined with relevant work experience.
IFAD has two professional-level staff categories:
- International Professional Officers: Internationally recruited and expected to serve at different duty stations throughout their career with IFAD.
- National Professional Officers: Nationals of the country of employment who bring local experience and knowledge to IFAD's work.
Professional staff are appointed for:
- Fixed-term: to perform functions of a continuous nature; it is granted for at least one year and may be extended.
- Co-terminus: to perform project-related functions of a non-continuous nature with clearly limited funding and scope; it is granted for a fixed period of one year or more, not exceeding the project’s duration, and with a maximum duration of seven years.
- Short-term: to support temporary needs of staff functions for up to 11 continuous period and 11 months in a calendar year (followed by a one-month cooling-off period), for a maximum of 44 months. A six-month break will be then required to be re-engaged by the organization.
