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Title: UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility


1
UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility
  • Ethiopia
  • 2008

2
The Issues
  • Mobility and transition
  • Spouse employment
  • Dual careers reason for turning down assignments

3
The Response
  • Joint Guidance Note on Expatriate Spouse
    Employment launched July 2004
  • Inter-agency steering committee
  • UN Staff Mobility Website
  • UN Global Expatriate Spouse Association (GESA)
  • UN Local Expatriate Spouse Association (LESA)

4
Inter-agency Steering Committee
  • UNICEF
  • UNOPS
  • UNRWA
  • UNWTO
  • UN Secretariat
  • WFP
  • WHO
  • World Bank
  • ILO
  • UNAIDS
  • UNDP
  • UNEP
  • UNESCO
  • UNFPA
  • UNHCR
  • UNEP awaiting confirmation

5
Global Website
  • Direct access for spouses and partners
  • Can research employment and country information
    even before moving
  • Spouses keep up-to-date on local developments

6
Content on Website
  • 70 countries on website
  • Career and employment information
  • Country profiles and practical information
  • Jobs, hiring manager access to CVs, bulletin
    boards

7
Role of the UN/GESA
  • Helps set up and coordinate work of LESAs
  • Maintains and upgrades global website
  • Implements communications strategy
  • Focal point between LESAs and UN agencies

8
Role of the UN/LESA
  • Supports the employment and career interests of
    spouses locally
  • Helps families settle into their new duty station
  • Produces and updates country-specific material
    for publication on the website

9
Number of LESAs
  • 40 countries have or are establishing LESAs
  • LESAs forming at agency head quarters (New York,
    Paris, Bonn, Geneva)
  • First UN HQ LESA established in Rome

10
To Establish a LESA
  • Read the Guidance Note on Expatriate Spouse
    Employment
  • Review How to Launch a LESA on website and
    contact GESA for assistance
  • Organize a meeting of spouses/partners
  • Form working groups
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