At UN, we believe that every individual has the potential to rise above challenges and contribute meaningfully to society. Our mission is to empower communities, provide opportunities, and drive positive change across various sectors, including education, healthcare, and social development.
Communities are essential to the sustainability of the HIV response and the broader global health efforts, and they remain steadfast committed to their mission: ensuring that all people living with and affected by HIV are treated with dignity and respect. For this reason, on this year’s (1 March), UNAIDS calls on countries, donors and partners to fulfill their commitments to support communities as they work to build sustainable HIV responses. To meet 2030 HIV targets, sustained investment in community-led responses is crucial.
To promote an organizational culture that enables staff to contribute to their maximum potential in an environment that is truly international and multicultural, the United Nations recognizes a number of core values and competencies which are essential for all staff, as well as the managerial competencies required by managers.
The Core Competencies include a combination of skills, attributes and behaviours that need to be developed and strengthened throughout everyone's career, regardless their function or level.
The Organization’s Core Competencies are:
Fake vacancy announcements have been repeatedly circulated via non-UN websites and email imitating UN email addresses. In some cases, correspondence falsely signed in the name of real officials has ensued, asking would-be applicants to part with copies of personal documents and even money.
As part of the UN Secretariat, entities post job vacancies only at careers.un.org. Please disregard any emails, or non-UN websites, purporting to announce job vacancies, and pass on this warning to anyone you think may be affected.
The United Nations is aware of various schemes, being circulated via e-mails, from the Internet web sites, and via regular mail or fax, falsely stating that they are issued by or associated with the United Nations.
These schemes may seek to extract money and in some cases personal details from the recipients of such correspondence. Such schemes are fraudulent.
The schemes consist of letters, sent either via e-mail, fax, regular mail, or from web sites, which appear as various proposals from people purporting to be officials of the United Nations, its Funds and Programmes and other United Nations entities. The correspondence and other documents, e-mails addresses and web sites may be made to look like they originate with the United Nations. For example, they may contain official-looking United Nations stationery, including the United Nations emblem or name, or some variation thereof, and e-mail or web site addresses, including either or both of the words “United Nations” or some similar name, or the name of a real United Nations entity or fictitious one.
The schemes, which have no connection whatsoever with the United Nations or the United Nations System of organizations, take many forms. New schemes are appearing with increasing frequency. A sampling of such employment scams include:
Entities such as:
Employment Scams
Offers of employment or job openings with requests for payment of fees are fraudulent. The scammers’ request for the payment of fees may come only after you have accepted the fraudulent offer. The United Nations does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any other fees). The United Nations does not concern itself with information on bank accounts. Any requests for such payment or information should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action and to the United Nations for its information.
Convocations to e-mail interviews are fraudulent. The United Nations does not conduct interviews via e-mail.
Entities falsely alleging an association with United Nations recruitment activities include “US Committee for UN”, “United Nations Center for Development Initiative” and “United Nations Global Military Intelligence”. Many others may also exist.
SUCH USE OF THE UNITED NATIONS NAME AND EMBLEM OR OTHER NAMES OR INDICIA IN THESE SCHEMES IS UNAUTHORIZED AND ILLEGAL. THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES WILL BE INFORMED OF ANY SUCH ACTIVITIES, OF WHICH THE UNITED NATIONS BECOMES AWARE, FOR APPROPRIATE ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY THOSE AUTHORITIES.
EXTREME CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN RELATION TO ANY SUSPICIOUS COMMUNICATION AS FINANCIAL LOSS AND IDENTITY THEFT COULD RESULT FROM THE SENDING OF MONEY OR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THOSE ISSUING SUCH FRAUDULENT CORRESPONDENCE.
Applying for a job in the UN can be challenging, but extremely rewarding. With that in mind, we prepared five great tips for you to keep in mind during the application process:
Apply only to those jobs that are suited to your strengths and aspirations and make sure to update your application to highlight important facts relevant to the job you are applying for.
When describing past experiences, focus on what you've accomplished and achieved, as opposed to what you do on a daily basis.
The United Nations workforce is made up of different categories of staff. Within each category there are different levels, which reflect increasing levels of responsibilities and requirements. The information in this section will help you decide for which staff category you see a good fit. This will be useful when you start searching and applying for jobs.
These are the different categories of staff at the United Nations:
At the United Nations you progress in your career through merit and qualifications. There are, however, restrictions on movement between the different categories. For each category of job there is an assessment process. Moving from one category to another is tied to specific requirements.
Within the professional and higher category, some jobs are filled through global competitive examination processes, including the Young Professionals Programme Examination and the Competitive Examination for Language Professionals.
The United Nations offers you an attractive remuneration package with competitive pay and benefits. The level of pay for staff in the Professional and higher categories that are recruited internationally is set by reference to the highest paying national civil service. Staff members in categories that are locally recruited are compensated in accordance with the best prevailing conditions of service among other employers in the locality.
