From CHF 3,300 a Month WIPO Fellowship
- Organization: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Type: Fellowship
- Location: Switzerland
- Deadline: October 30, 2026
- Funding: Fully Funded
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN system's organisation for intellectual property, is looking for a fellow to join the Geneva team behind the Global Innovation Index, the flagship index that member states use to improve their innovation policies. Over a renewable term of up to a year, the fellow collects and analyses innovation data, helps build the Global Innovation Tracker and contributes to the annual GII report. It suits someone with a master's in economics, statistics or data science who is already comfortable with large datasets in R or Python. **What you get:** - A monthly stipend from CHF 3,300 up to a maximum of CHF 6,000, set by your qualifications and experience and kept at the same level for the whole fellowship - A contribution towards your travel to Geneva at the start and home at the end, and help with a Swiss entry visa if you need one - Medical insurance, with WIPO paying 75% of the premium on a 12 month contract, and professional accident insurance with the premium paid in full - A Swiss carte de légitimation requested by WIPO, which serves as your residence and work permit - 2.5 days of annual leave for each full month, plus 10 official holidays a year - Access to WIPO Academy internal training, and up to six study leave days a year - Hands-on work on WIPO's flagship Global Innovation Index, supervised by the Senior Economist of the Composite Indicator Research Section **What you'll do:** - Collect, analyse, audit and process innovation data, and assess new data sources for the GII iLens Innovation Lab - Develop and deliver the Global Innovation Tracker, updating its existing metrics and adding new ones - Contribute analysis of country performance on innovation indicators to the annual GII report - Support the day-to-day project management of the GII, from correspondence to content for social media and the WIPO website and finalising report elements - Produce data visualisations, talking points and briefing documents for GII dissemination **Key dates:** - Posted October 15, 2026 - Applications close October 30, 2026 at 23:59 Geneva time (22:59 UTC) - Anticipated start January 4, 2027 - Runs up to 12 months, and can be extended to a maximum of three years in total **More information:** - Apply through WIPO's online recruitment system: create a profile, answer the job questionnaire and add a letter of motivation. WIPO assesses only what you enter in the system and disregards CVs - WIPO's system shows the closing time converted to your own time zone, so it will not read 23:59 unless you are on Geneva time - Shortlisted candidates must send a scanned ID and copies of their degrees in advance; testing or interviews may be used, and appointment depends on satisfactory professional references - WIPO only recognises degrees from institutions listed in the World Higher Education Database (WHED) - Fellows are not WIPO staff, and a fellowship does not guarantee a job at WIPO afterwards - WIPO's Fellowship Program page sets out the benefits and conditions shared by all its fellowships
