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Can I apply to sit the YPP examination in more than more job family?
FAQs
2 July 2018
External applicants and staff applying through the ‘G to N’ route can only apply to one job family.
Now that the rest and recuperation scheme is harmonized with the UN common system, what are the changes for staff in field missions?
FAQs
16 January 2015
The harmonized rest and recuperation scheme for international staff as well as international UN Volunteers includes:
Will staff members who pass the YPP examination have any choice about where they are placed (in terms of department and duty station)? Will they have to take the first position offered to them?
FAQs
2 July 2018
Whilst preferences made at the time of application will be taken into account where possible for all YPP recruits, all successful candidates must be prepared to accept the first position offered to
How will the review be conducted?
FAQs
3 January 2024
 
Where does the data from Umoja come from? What should I do after logging in?
FAQs
11 June 2015
Personal and financial Information about staff will be converted from the current system, IMIS.  There will be a “blackout” period where no changes will be permitted in IMIS during this conversion.
When will the new mobility and career development framework be implemented?
FAQs
16 January 2015
Mobility will be phased in by Job Network.
What are the most common/typical Umoja transactions?
FAQs
10 June 2015
The deployment of the first extension of Umoja deals with transactions related to personnel administration, entitlements, benefits, time management, payroll, and travel Example 1:
What are my rights as a staff member under the new mandatory age of separation (MAS)?
FAQs
19 June 2018
To preserve the rights of all staff members, staff members who, after 1 January 2018, were eligible to separate upon reaching their MAS at age 60 or 62 years may still do so at that age or any time
Does time spent working on a temporary assignment count towards the five years of continuous service required to be eligible for a continuing appointment?
FAQs
4 February 2022
Can all staff avail of learning and career support programmes?
FAQs
25 January 2023
Some programmes – like the LinkedIn Learning resource – are available to anyone with a un.org email address.
Where can I find the rules on R&R?
FAQs
16 January 2015
Administrative instruction ST/AI/2011/7 on “Rest and recuperation” details the rules on R&R.
Who is eligible for Special Leave?
FAQs
16 January 2015
In accordance with staff rule 5.3, Special Leave may be granted to staff members holding fixed-term, permanent or continuing appointments.
Who has access to employee self-service in Umoja?
FAQs
10 June 2015
All staff members (international or national staff) who are working in C3 entities (UNEP, UN Habitat, UNON, OCHA, ESCAP and UNAKRT) as well as MINUSTAH, regardless of their duty station, have acces
I serve in a field mission and my duty station is expected to become a family duty station but I don’t think the conditions at my current duty station are suitable for young children. Can my family be paid to travel to another duty station?
FAQs
19 January 2015
Travel of family members in connection with a staff member’s appointment or assignment can be made only to the duty station that the staff member is assigned to, as the purpose of the travel to for
What training/learning and career support options are available for Secretariat staff?
FAQs
28 January 2022
I was recruited as international staff member on a Temporary Appointment in a non-family duty station. Am I entitled to receive the non-family hardship allowance?
FAQs
16 January 2015
Yes, staff on Temporary Appointments are eligible for the non-family hardship allowance.
I am a staff member on a Temporary Appointment – can I request Special Leave?
FAQs
16 January 2015
Staff members holding temporary appointments may be granted special leave on an exceptional basis for compelling reasons, subject to approval from the Secretary-General.
If I serve in a field mission and if my duty station becomes a family duty station, my family will join me. My question is why is the lump sum, in lieu of shipment, only $5,000 and not $15,000 which is the lump-sum at a dependent rate?
FAQs
16 January 2015
The amount of the relocation grant, which is in lieu of shipment of personal effects, is linked to the travel of the family members.
I joined before 1 January 21990/2014 and will reach 60/62 years old after 1 January 2018, do I need to take any action?
FAQs
19 June 2018
No action is required, i.e. the staff members do not need to “opt in” or “opt out”.
Can a JPO/ Associate Expert, consultant, UNV or intern apply for the YPP examination?
FAQs
29 June 2018
Only Secretariat staff from the General Service and related categories and Field Service staff FS-5 and below can apply for the YPP examination as a staff member (‘G to P’) or through the route ref