Secrets of a successful application to a multilateral organisation with UNICEF and UNDP
11.09.2024

Natal is a Senior HR Advisor at cinfo. He is responsible for the cinfoPoste job portal (including the management of its talent pool), activities related to the UN Volunteers programme, part of the Swiss JPO programme, and HR marketing initiatives with priority multilateral organisations of the Swiss Confederation.

A development cooperation specialist with a professional background in the non-profit sector, particularly with the United Nations, Natal's broad expertise includes programme and HR management, partnership development, innovation, communication, vocational training management and learning processes facilitation. He is passionate about community development and the promotion of young talent.

Beat has coached individuals and groups in career development, career transitions, work-life balance and job applications for 15+ years. Originally trained as a forest engineer (ETH Zurich), he worked in the field for various development cooperation organisations, mainly with NGOs in Africa and South America.

Thanks to his knowledge of the sector and his extensive experience in talking to people from very different backgrounds, Beat has developed a thorough understanding of the links between personal expectations, individual circumstances and the reality of working in international cooperation. He is a certified coach (Trigon).

Beat is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish.

Lykke has extensive experience in talent management, talent acquisition, early talent and young professionals programmes, HR management and service provision, as well as development programme management. She has held different roles in UNDP: Manager of the Junior Professional Officer Centre, Deputy Resident Representative in Uzbekistan, Aid Coordination Specialist, Country Programme Manager for Eastern Europe in Slovaka, and Programme Analyst in Kyrgyzstan. Lykke holds a Master of Science in Int. Business Management from the Copenhagen Business School. 

Alexandros Semeloglou is a native of Greece and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece. He subsequently obtained an MA in European Sociology and International Governance from the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Alexandros has over a decade of experience as a journalist in TV and media productions. In 2017, he transitioned to the field of communications within NGOs and humanitarian organisations. Since 2019, he has been working as an Employer Branding and Outreach Officer in the Talent Outreach team at UNICEF’s Division of Human Resources. He is fluent in English, German, Spanish, French and his native Greek.