Going into the weekend, I want to post this as a reminder for all of you:
Some of you know this but here is a reminder for those of you who are new: Here is how to go about hunting for jobs in the UN system. Have a read, think it through, make a plan and act! Good luck!
Have any more questions? Let me know in the comments below!
These are the statistics for the List for this last week. If you have any question or an idea on how to improve these stats, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you!
During the past 7 days the following happened:
Top 5 jobs of the last week
The breakdown of the new jobs found in the past 7 days on the UN Job List is shown in the chart below. The number in parentheses is the number of new vacancies added to the List.
Interested in these jobs? Check out the newest additions to the UN Job List now!
Going into the weekend, I want to post this as a reminder for all of you:
Many jobs need UN experience. So how do you gain this experience? One way to get this experience is to sign up with the United Nations Volunteers programme. For one volunteering is a great thing to do and we all should give back to our communities by volunteering and on the other hand you will gain valuable UN experience with UNV. So head over to UNV and learn about their great work today!
Have any more questions? Let me know in the comments below!
These are the statistics for the List for this last week. If you have any question or an idea on how to improve these stats, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you!
During the past 7 days the following happened:
Top 5 jobs of the last week
The breakdown of the new jobs found in the past 7 days on the UN Job List is shown in the chart below. The number in parentheses is the number of new vacancies added to the List.
Interested in these jobs? Check out the newest additions to the UN Job List now!
Going into the weekend, I want to post this as a reminder for all of you:
Many people ask me what is behind the different contract types and job levels in the United Nations. Good news, here is the overview over the different UN contract types and levels. All the best and good luck job hunting!
Have any more questions? Let me know in the comments below!
These are the statistics for the List for this last week. If you have any question or an idea on how to improve these stats, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you!
During the past 7 days the following happened:
Top 5 jobs of the last week
The breakdown of the new jobs found in the past 7 days on the UN Job List is shown in the chart below. The number in parentheses is the number of new vacancies added to the List.
Interested in these jobs? Check out the newest additions to the UN Job List now!
I posted a link to Dan Palotta’s TED talk a few days ago and while I still believe it is a good talk to listen to, I would like to add some additional voices to the discussion. So before we begin, I want to say thanks to Ian over at KM on a dollar a day for providing me with an additional feedback and ideas on the topic!
This post here by Alanna Shaikh summarizes some of my feelings towards the talk very well. The main reason of why I posted the TED talk (and yes, you should still listen to it!) was that the talk highlights that obsessing about overheads is not helpful and counterproductive to good development work. Alanna Shaikh comments:
I agree with Pallotta on overhead. The need to keep overhead low leads to distortions in NGO programming, distortions that make quality worse. Some organizations accept donated materials they don’t really need, because the value of the materials increases the program budget and therefore makes overhead a lower percentage of costs. Others play games with how they charge staff member time, so they can assign more salary to programs. Those are just two examples; there are more. Overall, the obsession with overhead costs takes time and effort away from real work planning and evaluation even when it doesn’t actually make programs worse by forcing the inclusion of useless donations or limiting staff availability. (Source)
I think that’s really well said. In fact, I would like to start a collecting some cases / examples of how the focus on overheads had bad impact on development and I’m even more interested in learning about good practices to keep organisations focused, lean and cost effective while not obsessing about overheads too much. Do you have any inputs or ideas for me? Thanks!
Going into the weekend, I want to post this as a reminder for all of you:
The UN Job List is on Twitter (@UNJobList) so follow the latest opportunities there! Also, the list is on Facebook, too. Like it there now.
Have any more questions? Let me know in the comments below!
I do my work on the UN Job List since I believe that the UN system needs good people to be really great. This relates to getting the right kinds of people to join the right causes in this world. And so I listened to this TED talk from Dan Pallotta on how to look at NGO / Charity work. I’m not sure I fully agree with all his points but the way he talks about indirect costs (“overheads”) is very good (minute 12 into the video).
With regards to overheads, it is frustrating to see the incentives in organisations stacked up against saving money in the process of doing good: With the wrong focus on “overheads” cost savings between projects are often discouraged. So what happens? Well, in order to keep overheads low, organisations have an incentive not to share resources since a USD $10 Expense in indirect costs (that could be used in all projects) would make the organisation look “expensive”. What happens instead is that the resources are put into projects directly and thus eliminating savings through sharing. If you assume the same USD $10 resources in use in two different projects you effectively double the costs vis-a-vis simple sharing of the resource. Sometimes these cases are not quite as obvious but if you are faced with the decision to invest into a system that could automate a lot of manual processing work or have projects do the manual processing themselves, more often than not organisations are hesitant to invest into infrastructure even if this would save significant resources for projects.
So I agree with Dan Pallotta that focusing on results, on growth and on how much of the overall challenge at hand has been resolved is far more important than achieving arbitrary ratios of indirect costs.
These are the statistics for the List for this last week. If you have any question or an idea on how to improve these stats, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you!
During the past 7 days the following happened:
Top 5 jobs of the last week
The breakdown of the new jobs found in the past 7 days on the UN Job List is shown in the chart below. The number in parentheses is the number of new vacancies added to the List.
Interested in these jobs? Check out the newest additions to the UN Job List now!
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