Editorial
Tagged: contracts
Plain-English explainers for navigating UN job titles, contract types, agencies, and application strategy — written for people actually applying, not for agency comms teams.
IFRC contracts, staff categories and volunteering: a guide for applicants
A practical guide to IFRC staff, national positions, consultancies, internships and Movement volunteering, with the limits of public grade information explained.
ICRC contracts, mobile assignments and local roles: a guide for applicants
How to distinguish ICRC mobile and resident positions, understand field deployment conditions and read compensation and eligibility information without importing UN grades.
UN Tourism contracts and grades: staff and service contracts explained
A guide to UN Tourism staff, service contracts, consultants, JPOs, loans and internships, with P, D and G grades and Madrid recruitment.
IRENA contracts and grades: professional, General Service and programme roles
How IRENA staff, consultants, JPOs, Associate Professionals, interns and loan arrangements differ, with UN common-system grades and locations.
WTO contracts and grades: professional, support and director levels
A guide to WTO fixed-term, permanent, short-term, consultant and internship contracts, with grades 1–12 and Geneva recruitment.
ASEAN Secretariat contracts and job levels: how to read current vacancies
How ASEAN Secretariat fixed-term and project appointments work, what its public titles show, and why applicants should not invent a grade table.
OAS contracts and grades: P, D and G categories explained
A guide to OAS continuing, fixed-term, trust, local and consulting arrangements, with P1–P5, D1–D2 and G1–G7 grades.
Commonwealth Secretariat contracts and grades: what applicants can verify
A careful guide to Commonwealth Secretariat fixed-term, temporary and consulting work, its letter-grade vacancies, London eligibility and applications.
Council of Europe contracts and grades: A, B, C and L posts
How Council of Europe international, local and temporary recruitment differ, with grades A, B, C and L, nationality rules and salary tables.
OECD contracts and grades: the new job-family system explained
A guide to OECD official, temporary and associated staff, the post-2023 GA, CF, PAL and EL grades, older categories and official salary scales.
African Union contracts and grades: how to read an AU vacancy
How African Union regular, fixed-term and project appointments differ, what P, D and General Service labels show and where official information stops.
OSCE contracts and grades: contracted, seconded and local posts explained
A practical guide to OSCE contracted and seconded appointments, P, D, NP and GS categories, field-operation nationality rules and pay.