UN Careers Job Scraper — United Nations Jobs

Fetch current United Nations vacancies from careers.un.org with server-side filters for category, job family, network and keyword.

What UN careers data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Stable source-side identifier for the posting
title	string	Job title as posted
company	string	Hiring organisation (always "United Nations")
department	string	Hiring department/office (e.g. "Department of Operational Support")
location	string	Duty station
category	string	Staff category name (e.g. "Professional and Higher")
categoryCode	string	Staff category code (e.g. "PD") — see the categories input for the full list
jobFamily	string	Functional area name (e.g. "Programme Management")
jobFamilyCode	string	Functional area code (e.g. "PGM") — see the jobFamilies input for the full list
network	string	High-level job network name (e.g. "Political, Peace and Humanitarian")
networkCode	string	Job network code (e.g. "POLNET") — see the networks input for the full list
level	string	Job level / grade (e.g. "P-3")
recruitmentType	string	Recruitment type as posted (e.g. "Staff")
postedAt	string	Posting start date (ISO 8601, e.g. "2026-06-25")
deadline	string	Application deadline date (ISO 8601)
url	string	Direct link to the posting
isNew	boolean	Only present when onlyNewSinceLastRun is on — always true (already-seen postings are dropped, never emitted with isNew: false)
description	string	Full plain-text job description (omitted when includeDescription is false)

How to scrape UN careers with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run — no login to the target site, no cookies, no proxies to configure.
2. Adjust the input (keyword, filters, maxItems) or keep the defaults.
3. Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it over the API.

Run it from your own code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("nomad-agent/un-careers-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "—", item["company"], item["url"])

Or a single HTTP call that runs the Actor and returns items in one response:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nomad-agent~un-careers-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
keyword	string	""	Free-text search across job titles and descriptions (e.g. "data engineer", "human rights"). Leave empty to…
categories	array	""	Staff category. Leave empty for all.
jobFamilies	array	""	Functional area. Leave empty for all.
networks	array	""	High-level job network. Leave empty for all.
locationFilter	string	""	Optional case-insensitive substring match on duty station, applied client-side (the API has no server-side…
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of openings to return. Set 0 for no limit (all matching openings).
includeDescription	boolean	true	Include the full plain-text job description in each result. Turn off for lighter, faster output.
sortDirection	string	"newest"	Order openings by posting start date.
cacheTtlSeconds	integer	1800	Cache the upstream fetch in the key-value store for this many seconds; re-runs within the window skip the…
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Delta / monitoring mode: only output openings not seen on a previous flagged run. See Delta mode / monitoring below.

Output example

{
  "jobId": "243519",
  "title": "Programme Management Officer",
  "company": "United Nations",
  "department": "Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs",
  "location": "Geneva",
  "category": "Professional and Higher",
  "categoryCode": "PD",
  "jobFamily": "Programme Management",
  "jobFamilyCode": "PGM",
  "network": "Political, Peace and Humanitarian",
  "networkCode": "POLNET",
  "level": "P-3",
  "recruitmentType": "Staff",
  "postedAt": "2026-06-25",
  "deadline": "2026-07-24",
  "url": "https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/243519?language=en",
  "description": "Full plain-text job description..."
}

Delta mode / monitoring

Turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun to get only openings that weren't already returned by a previous run with the flag on — ideal for a cron schedule or an alert bot that should pay only for genuinely new UN vacancies.

How it works: delivered postings are remembered in a dedicated key-value store, keyed by each posting's jobId, capped at ~50,000 entries (oldest evicted first). The first run with the flag on has nothing to compare against, so it emits everything — all isNew: true. Every emitted record gets isNew: true stamped on it; there is no isNew: false, since already-seen postings are simply dropped before push (and never billed). The state store is best-effort: if it can't be read, the run degrades to "everything is new" rather than failing.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per Actor start and $0.006 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.605. The whole portal is ~480 open vacancies, so even an uncapped run (maxItems: 0) tops out around $3. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Use cases

• International-career job boards and alert bots
• NGO / IGO career coaching services
• Research on UN hiring by duty station or job family
• Deadline tracking for UN applicants

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape UN careers? This Actor reads only publicly available job postings — data any visitor can see without logging in. No personal data behind authentication is touched. Review the target site's terms and your local regulations for your specific use case.

Do I need an account on the target site? No. Postings are fetched from public pages/APIs — no login, cookies or session tokens.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live listings. Results are cached for cacheTtlSeconds (default 30 min, set 0 to always hit the source live).

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run (set 0 where supported for no cap). Most sources paginate from newest to oldest.

Can I filter UN jobs by duty station? Yes — pass locationFilter (e.g. "geneva", "nairobi"). It is applied as a case-insensitive substring match on the duty station.

Does this cover UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, UNHCR, IMF or World Bank jobs? This Actor covers the UN Secretariat via its official portal, careers.un.org — the departments, offices, peace operations and regional commissions that recruit through that system. Several UN specialized agencies and international financial institutions (UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, UNHCR, IMF, the World Bank) run their own separate application systems, so their vacancies are not on careers.un.org. Many of those agencies' openings are aggregated by our sibling Actors — see Related Actors below (Impactpool, ReliefWeb, Devex) — so you can cover the wider UN / NGO / international-organization job market with the same fleet. You can also pass a keyword (e.g. "UNICEF", "WHO") to surface UN Secretariat postings that reference those partners.

Can I run it on a schedule and only get new jobs? Yes — turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun (see Delta mode / monitoring). Combined with Apify Schedules, you only pay for genuinely new UN vacancies each run.

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Related Actors

• UNjobs Scraper — unjobs.org UN Vacancies
• Research & Academic Jobs Scraper — 10 Sources
• ReliefWeb Jobs Scraper — Humanitarian & NGO
• Impactpool Jobs Scraper — UN & NGO Careers
• Devex Jobs Scraper — International Development

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