Trustworthy, practical guidance for building a career across the UN and international sector — and full transparency on how it's made.
More than a job board. At every stage you get both guides to understand it and tools to act on it — from your first application to life after service.
Every UN and major international vacancy in one place — plus the strategy to stand out: understanding organizations, the hidden job market, and stronger applications.
See what a role really pays with our Pay Stack, salary ladder, and contract tools — and understand the detail behind post adjustment, allowances, and entitlements.
Compare duty stations and what your money is worth with the Country Hub and Purchasing Power Index — then land well with first-weeks and relocation guides.
Perform, build relationships, and get noticed for the right reasons once you're in.
Pensions, retirement planning, and after-service health insurance (ASHI).
Four things every guide has to earn.
We cross-reference multiple sources and the best current thinking — established models, recent research, and industry best practice.
When a topic touches the rules of UN organizations, we go to the source — the latest ICSC frameworks, individual agencies' policies and practices, published CEB reports, and the pension fund — and cite them.
Every guide is fact-checked, its figures month-stamped or linked to a live source, and each carries a review date — so what you read reflects the latest information available.
Independent and unaffiliated — we serve the mission, not any one organization, by bridging the people who make it work: talented job seekers and the recruiters who need them.
Our guides are researched, written, and edited in-house. Every one is built from primary sources, cross-referenced against the best current thinking, and fact-checked, dated, and reviewed before it's published — held to the four standards above. We know the international and UN sector and how hiring within it works. We publish under a shared house byline, UNjobnet Editorial; where a named external specialist contributes to or reviews a piece, we credit them by name.
General information, not official advice — rules vary by organization, duty station, and contract type, and only your own HR and the governing instructions are authoritative for your situation. UNjobnet is independent and not affiliated with the United Nations. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it.