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!

Last week’s performance

During the past 7 days the following happened:

• Total number of external views (all jobs listed in the last 7 days): 18482

Top 5 jobs of the last week

• Top: 1 with 570 external views. Programme Officer (WHO) in Geneva Switzerland.
• Top: 2 with 495 external views. Administrative Specialist, P-3, Nairobi, Kenya (UNICEF) in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Top: 3 with 487 external views. PROGRAMME OFFICER – Economic and Social Development, Programme Management (UNEP) in NAIROBI.
• Top: 4 with 450 external views. PROGRAMME OFFICER – Economic and Social Development, Programme Management (UNEP) in NAIROBI.
• Top: 5 with 406 external views. Training Officer – one year long-term, renewable (UNICC) in Brindisi, Italy.

New jobs by organisation

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!

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!

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Last week’s performance

During the past 7 days the following happened:

• Total number of external views (all jobs listed in the last 7 days): 17814

Top 5 jobs of the last week

• Top: 1 with 1600 external views. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER – Management and Operations Support, Administration (UNON) in NAIROBI.
• Top: 2 with 849 external views. Administrative Assistant (ICC) in Nairobi.
• Top: 3 with 758 external views. Operations Support Officer (UNRWA) in Gaza Field Office.
• Top: 4 with 718 external views. PROGRAMME OFFICER – Economic and Social Development, Programme Management (UNEP) in NAIROBI.
• Top: 5 with 525 external views. Programme Officer (WHO) in Geneva Switzerland.

New jobs by organisation

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!

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!

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Last week’s performance

During the past 7 days the following happened:

• Total number of external views (all jobs listed in the last 7 days): 20804

Top 5 jobs of the last week

• Top: 1 with 1538 external views. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER – Management and Operations Support, Administration (UNON) in NAIROBI.
• Top: 2 with 442 external views. Logistics Specialist, P-3, Nairobi, USSC (UNICEF) in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Top: 3 with 406 external views. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER, P3 – Political, Peace and Security, Human Rights (UN OHCHR) in GENEVA.
• Top: 4 with 376 external views. Staff Counsellor – Global, P-3, Nairobi – Kenya RO (UNICEF) in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Top: 5 with 325 external views. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER – Political, Peace and Security, Human Rights (UN OHCHR) in GENEVA.

New jobs by organisation

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!

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!