According to tradition it’s time to look back and reflect on where UN jobs are coming from so after the 2007, 2008 and 2009 statistics here is the summary for 2010.

Again the results are no big surprise for those who know the UN landscape. The top three organisations/departments are still UNDP, WHO and UNOPS. However, UNICEF is a very strong number four, followed by FAO, IAEA, UNFPA, IOM, UNRWA and UNEP. Note that the secretariat is not listed as a whole but rather according to its different departments in the same way the UN Job List lists the secretariat.

Also note this year in particular my disclaimer on data accuracy: For instance the UNICEF data feed has only been implemented in August so my UNICEF data is incomplete for 2010. All data represents a collection of vacancies posted by the UN Job List. Thus the data can not be used as an accurate estimation of how many posts an organisation actually fills, since the UN Job List neither tracks internal vacancies nor has a way of knowing which of the advertised vacancies are filled eventually.

For further details have a look at the UN Job List Resource Page where you can see what the last three days look like, how 2011 is building and how the past years were.