This summary of reassignment covers the following topics:
The reassignment regulations give an agency extensive flexibility in reassigning an employee to a different position.
This summary covers the procedures in the reassignment regulations. With this summary, employees, managers, union representatives, and others will have an overview of both the agency's and employees' rights in a reassignment situation.
The appropriate human resource office (HRO) in the agency can provide additional information on specific questions relating to reassignment policies, options, and entitlements.
The regulations published in section 335.102 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations (5 CFR 335.102) cover reassignment of competitive service employees, while the regulations published in section 302.102(a) (5 CFR 302.102(a)) cover reassignment of excepted service employees.
Section 5 C.F.R. 210.102(b)(12) of the regulations defines reassignment as:
". . . a change of an employee, while serving continuously within the same agency, from one position to another without promotion or demotion."
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An agency may reassign an employee when:
The agency has a legitimate organizational reason for the reassignment; and
The vacant position is at the same grade, or rate of pay (i.e., if the movement is between pay systems such as from a General Schedule position to a Federal Wage System position), as the employee's present position.
The agency's right to direct reassignment includes the right to reassign an employee from a special rate position to a non-special rate position at the same grade, or to a position with less promotion potential than the present position. (Reassignment to a position with more promotion potential than the present position requires competition under the agency's merit staffing plan.) The position to which the agency reassigns an employee may be located in the same or a different geographic area (e.g., reassignment from Houston to Washington, DC).
An agency may reassign an employee without regard to the employee's reduction in force retention standing, including an employee's veterans' preference status. A reassignment to a vacant position at the same grade is not a reduction in force action even if the agency abolishes the employee's former position
At its option, an agency may adopt a policy to select employees for reassignment on the basis of considerations such as retention standing, total service with the agency, length of time in a position or in the organization, etc. Again at its option, an agency may canvass its employees to determine whether an individual employee would prefer reassignment to a specific location, a new organization, and/or to a position with different duties and responsibilities.
The agency must use the 5 CFR part 752 adverse action regulations when separating an employee who declines a directed reassignment to a position in a different geographic area.
An employee who is removed by adverse action for declining geographic relocation is potentially eligible for most of the benefits that are available to a displaced employee separated by reduction in force (e.g., intra- and interagency hiring priority, severance pay, discontinued service retirement, etc.).
An employee who declines reassignment to a position in the same geographic area as the present position (e.g., from an Atlanta position to a different Atlanta position) is not eligible for any career transition assistance or other benefits.
The agency's basic right to reassign an employee is based, in part, on the agency's determination that the employee is qualified for the position to which the employee will be reassigned.
An agency may also reassign an employee to a position if the agency modifies or waives qualifications for the vacant position, consistent with OPM's requirements for these actions.
An employee is generally eligible for relocation expense allowances for a directed reassignment that requires relocation to a different geographic area
The General Services Administration (GSA) publishes its Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) in 41 CFR subpart F. The complete FTR and other relocation-related information are available on GSA's website at www.gsa.gov .
The agency's human resources office (HRO) can provide both employees and managers with additional information on OPM's reassignment regulations. The HRO can also provide information on potential benefits, such as eligibility for:
OPM provides additional restructuring information on the OPM website at www.opm.gov .
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Pre-employment tests provide an objective measure of a candidate's qualifications, skills, and suitability for a role. They can assess technical knowledge, integrity, cognitive ability, personality traits, emotional intelligence, specific skills, and physical ability. These tests can help make informed hiring decisions and improve the quality of hires.
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Many companies use graphology (handwriting analysis) when hiring. But graphology hasn’t been proven to predict job performance any more than crystal balls or star signs. So long as companies don’t rely in pseudoscience, pre-employment testing can help them make better hiring decisions.
Of course, you should use pre-employment screening with caution . A well-developed test can shed ample light on candidate fit and suitability. But the wrong test can hurt candidate experience and impede your decision-making.
Here are seven common pre-employment tests that can help you make better hiring decisions:
The whole hiring process is a test for candidates. But in this context, pre-employment testing refers to standardized tests.
Job knowledge tests measure a candidate’s technical or theoretical expertise in a particular field. For example, an accountant may be asked about basic accounting principles. These kinds of tests are most useful for jobs that require specialized knowledge or high levels of expertise.
A job knowledge test doesn’t take into account a very desirable attribute: learning ability. A candidate may have limited knowledge but be a fast learner. Or they may know a lot but be unable to adjust to new knowledge and ideas. Plus, there’s always a gap between knowing something in theory and applying it in practice.
The story of pre-employment testing began with integrity tests . They can help companies avoid hiring dishonest, unreliable or undisciplined people. Overt integrity tests ask direct questions about integrity and ethics. Covert tests assess personality traits connected with integrity, like conscientiousness.
If carefully constructed, integrity tests can be good predictors of job performance . Plus, they’re less biased than other tests, as few differences have been spotted between people of different age groups or race .
Candidates faking answers is always a concern. Especially with overt integrity tests. If a candidate is asked whether they ever stole something, how likely are they to answer yes? If they did, they’d be (paradoxically) honest enough to tell the truth. Employers should consider the fact that people can repent and change.
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Cognitive ability tests measure a candidate’s general mental capacity which is strongly correlated to job performance . These kinds of tests are much more accurate predictors of job performance than interviews or experience. Workable uses a General Aptitude Test (GAT) which measures logical, verbal and numerical reasoning.
As with any cognitive ability test, practice can improve test takers’ scores. Also, cognitive ability tests are vulnerable to racial and ethnic differences , posing a discrimination risk. Use multiple evaluation methods and don’t base hiring decisions on these tests alone. Just use the results as a guide.
Personality assessments can offer insight into candidates’ cultural fit and whether their personality can translate into job success. Personality traits have been shown to correlate to job performance in different roles . For example, salespeople who score high on extraversion and assertiveness tend to do better. The Big five model is popular. Motivation tests are also personality assessment tests, used more frequently by career guidance counsellors in schools.
Social desirability bias plays an important role in self-reported tests. People tend to answer based on what they think you want to hear and end up misrepresenting themselves. Make sure the test you choose is designed to catch misrepresentations . Some candidates might also find personality questionnaires invasive, which could hurt candidate experience. So, be careful how and when you use them.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to how well someone builds relationships and understands emotions (both their own and others’). These abilities are an important factor in professions that involve frequent interpersonal relationships and leadership . In general, tests that measure EI have some predictability of job performance .
People don’t always tell the truth when reporting their own EI abilities. You can ask experts or observers to give their input but be prepared to spend more money and time in the process.
Skills assessments don’t focus on knowledge or abstract personality traits. They measure actual skills, either soft skills (e.g. attention to detail) or hard skills (e.g. computer literacy). For example, a secretarial candidate may take a typing test to show how fast and accurately they can type. Other examples include data checking tests, leaderships tests, presentations or writing assignments.
Skills assessment tests are time-consuming. Candidates need time to submit work or give presentations. Hiring managers also need time to evaluate results. You can use skills assessments during later stages of your hiring process when you have a smaller candidate pool.
Physical abilities tests measure strength and stamina. These traits are critical for many professions (like firefighting). So they should never be neglected when relevant. By extension, they’ll help reduce workplace accidents and worker’s compensation claims. And candidates won’t be able to fake results as easily as with other tests.
Sometimes physical ability tests may resemble medical examinations that are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you’re not careful, you could face litigation. You should also allow for differences in gender, age and ethnicity when interpreting your candidates’ results, for the same reason.
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You had a great time working on your assignment. But alas, all good things must come to an end.
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Depending upon your situation, there are specific actions you should take as your assignment winds down. By being proactive and communicating effectively, you can get the most from your temping experience and achieve your goals:
If you would like to be placed on another assignment:
As soon as you know your assignment end-date, let your staffing coordinator know that you’ll be available for redeployment. The sooner your coordinator knows your availability, the sooner they can get to work on finding your next opportunity. This step is particularly important if you want to avoid gaps in employment and earn a steady paycheck.
You should also search jobs on your staffing agency’s job board . If you find a great opportunity you’d like to be considered for, follow your staffing firm’s procedures for applying.
If you are looking for a direct-hire position:
Be sure your staffing coordinator and your assignment supervisor know that you want a direct job. Most temporary and contract positions are designed to end at some point. So, if you want to be considered for a direct-hire position with the company where you’re on assignment, you should take it upon yourself to communicate your intentions regularly.
If you struggled with your assignment:
Your staffing coordinator wants you to enjoy your work as a field associate; it’s their job to place you in assignments that complement your skills, needs, personality and career goals. If, for some reason, you had a difficult time while on assignment, share your concerns with your coordinator. By providing constructive feedback, your coordinator can do a better job of presenting future opportunities that are a great fit.
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There's never enough time to do everything you want to do. It's a universal problem. And we all accept that fact and live with its reality until the worst-case scenario rears its ugly head: there's not enough time to do everything you have to do.
When everything on your to-do list feels like it's of crucial importance (or when someone you answer to feels that way), use one or more of these prioritization techniques to help you identify your most important task and get work done.
A prioritization technique helps you make informed decisions about the order you should complete your tasks based on different factors like their importance and due dates. With a list of prioritized tasks in hand, you have a shield to respectfully push back against unnecessary meeting invites and last-minute requests.
For example, when stakeholders would approach my teammates with "urgent" requests, we would show them our prioritized task list and ask, "What should we cut in order to accommodate this request?" After seeing the importance of the other things on the list, urgent requests often suddenly became much less urgent.
But prioritization techniques aren't limited to regaining control over workplace tasks. They're also useful for managing competing priorities from your family, friends, and even that part of your brain that's always on the lookout for side projects.
Task prioritization techniques
The priority matrix technique consists of distributing your tasks across a four-quadrant matrix like the one shown below. The x-axis represents one value, and the y-axis represents another. Each quadrant, then, represents priority based on the defined values.
There are infinite ways you could organize your priority matrix. Here are popular priority matrix examples to get you started.
With the Eisenhower matrix, the x-axis represents urgency while the y-axis represents importance , leaving you with the following categories (from the top-left going clockwise):
Important and urgent tasks are your top priorities.
Urgent but not important tasks are ones that must get done but can be delegated to someone else.
Not urgent or important tasks are probably unnecessary distractions.
To use it, evaluate each task based on its urgency and importance, and then place the task in the corresponding quadrant.
By placing each task on your list into a quadrant on the Eisenhower Matrix, you can determine what needs to be done now, what you can save for later, what's worth delegating, and what you can scratch out altogether.
In the impact-effort matrix, the x-axis represents impact, and the y-axis represents effort . So you'll have a matrix with the following quadrants (from top-left going clockwise):
High effort, low impact
High effort, high impact
Low effort, high impact
Low effort, low impact
To distribute your tasks accordingly, evaluate how much effort each one will take and the impact completing it will have. Any tasks in your Low effort, high impact quadrant are your top priorities, followed by ones in your High effort, high impact quadrants.
If you have a lot of tasks in these two quadrants, consider working on one or two from your Low effort, high impact quadrant. The sense of accomplishment from checking off these quick wins might give you that much-needed boost to tackle the rest.
In the cost-value matrix, the x-axis represents cost, and the y-axis represents value , leaving you with the following groupings (from top-left going clockwise):
High value, low cost
High value, high cost
Low value, high cost
Low value, low cost
Evaluate how much your task will cost (in terms of time) and the value it'll provide. Tasks in your High value, low cost quadrant are your quick wins, while ones in your Low value, high cost are tasks you should probably avoid.
The MoSCoW method is a simple technique for prioritizing tasks where you assign every task on your to-do list to one of four categories:
M – Must do : M tasks are things you absolutely have to do.
S – Should do : S tasks are things you should do, but they're a lower priority than M tasks.
C – Could do : C tasks are nice-to-dos. You'd like to do them, but if you don't, it's probably not a big deal.
W – Won't do : W tasks are things that just aren't worth doing.
Note: If you have a lot of tasks that need delegation, the MoSCow method isn't for you. Jump to the ABCDE method for a better-suited alternative technique.
After you've assigned each task to a category, delete your W tasks. Breathe a sigh of relief at how much shorter your task list is now. Then get to work. Focus first on M tasks, followed by S tasks, and if you have time, C tasks.
By working on your list from the top down, you can ensure that you're always working on your highest-priority tasks.
A tasks are things you must do.
B tasks are things you should do.
C tasks are nice-to-dos.
D tasks are tasks you should delegate to someone else.
E tasks are tasks you should eliminate.
The ABCDE method expands on the MoSCoW method by prioritizing tasks you need to do and identifying the ones that can be done by someone else.
Kanban apps also work really well for this technique. You'll have one source list for all your tasks followed by additional lists to contain A , B , C , D , and E tasks. Drag and drop tasks from the source list into the appropriate category, then get started on your A tasks.
For example, say your highest priority task is to re-tile your bathroom floor. However, you know that you also need to have plumbers run new pipes in your bathroom, and they'll have to cut into the floor to do so. Getting new pipes run may be a lower priority, but since it will impact your highest-priority task of re-tiling the floor, it needs to be completed first.
In Scrum prioritization, you evaluate each task on your list using three criteria:
How important is this task?
How important is it compared to the other tasks on this list?
Is any other task dependent on this task?
Then, using the answers to those questions, you assign each a unique number from one to n (where n is the total number of tasks on your list).
Scrum prioritization works well on its own, but it also pairs really well with other techniques like the MoSCoW or ABCDE method. After categorizing your tasks by priority (as M , C , and W or A , B , and C ), you can begin sequencing the tasks in order of how you plan to complete them, keeping in mind any task dependencies that might impact that order.
The Bubble sort method is an effective way to answer the question, "How important is this task compared to other tasks on this list?" It's especially useful if you're suffering from the everything-is-urgent problem.
Start with a horizontal grid and assign each task to a cell.
Then, take the first two tasks and evaluate them against each other by asking, "Which task is more important?"
Whichever task from the previous step is most important gets moved to the left. In the example below, Task 2 is more important than Task 1 , so the two tasks switch places.
Then compare the next two tasks. Which is more important? The more important task gets moved one cell to the left.
Continue this process until you get to the end of the list. Then repeat the process from the beginning. Continue repeating the exercise until every task is to the left of a less-important task. Your priorities are now listed from left to right.
There's no specific tool designed for the Bubble sort method, but you can easily use a Kanban, to-do list, or project management app for this. The only difference is that your sets of tasks will run from top-to-bottom instead of left-to-right.
Pick at least one MIT each day that's related to your goals. This way, you're doing something daily to help you reach your goals. And while you'll most likely complete more in a day than only your MITs, selecting your MITs in the morning and setting a deadline ensures you're dedicating time every day to working on important, high-priority tasks.
At the end of every workday, choose the six most important tasks on your list to work on tomorrow.
Then, order those six tasks in terms of priority.
When you get to work the next day, work on task number one until it's complete.
Tackle the rest of your list in the same way.
Continue until all six tasks are complete, and repeat the process every single day.
The 1-3-9 prioritization technique encourages you to focus on important tasks, but it also gives you a way to prioritize the less important tasks you'll inevitably need to work on. It's like a blend of the MoSCoW, MIT, and Ivy Lee methods.
Every day, you plan to complete 13 tasks:
one critical task (like an M task from MoSCoW)
three important tasks (like S from MoSCoW)
nine nice-to-do tasks (like C from MoSCoW)
You could even combine the 1-3-9 technique with an Eisenhower matrix, leaving you with one task in the Important and urgent quadrant, three in the Important but not urgent quadrant, and nine in the Urgent but not important quadrant.
Order your lists of three and nine tasks in terms of priority. Then work on and complete your one task, followed by your three tasks in order, and finally, your nine tasks in order.
In an ideal world, you'd be able to work only on your highest-priority, high-value tasks—but things rarely work out that way. The 1-3-9 method addresses that reality by giving you a way to make sure you're at least working on the most important of your less important tasks.
Any priority matrix app or Kanban app works well with the 1-3-9 prioritization technique.
First, you write down a list of 25 things you want to accomplish. When the list is complete, circle the five most important items on that list.
When you're finished, compile the results into two lists:
The first—containing the five tasks you circled—becomes your to-do list.
The second—containing the 20 tasks you didn't circle—becomes your don't-do (yet) list.
Focus your attention on completing all the tasks on your first list. Only then can you begin working on your second list.
Put another way, if you prioritize a small percentage of the right tasks, they can yield outsized effects.
To put the 80/20 rule into practice, identify your 20% work and make those tasks your priority. There's no hard-and-fast rule baked into the Pareto principle for how to determine your 20% work, but you can draw on other strategies. For example, M tasks from the MoSCoW method or Low effort, high impact tasks from the effort-impact priority matrix.
Many of the prioritization methods listed above are useful for prioritizing your daily tasks. But what if you're working on a larger scale? For example, a product team debating which features to roll out next, or a marketing team deciding how to divide their advertising budget across different campaigns. In those cases, here are a few prioritization methods to help your team identify and sequence those tasks:
Every technique on this list helps you achieve the same thing: ensuring that you're always working on your most important tasks. So, in the end, it doesn't matter which technique you use. It doesn't matter if you use multiple techniques. And it doesn't matter if you blend parts of the different techniques to make your own custom method.
What matters is that you pick something that makes sense and feels natural, and get to work.
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This article was originally published in July 2019. The most recent update was in September 2023 with contributions from Jessica Lau.
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Rodgers, a British journalist who has worked in Russia at various times since the 1990s, writes about the plight of the English-speaking correspondents who have covered Russia, going all the way back to the Russian Revolution in 1917. That their task was not easy is hardly surprising, yet Rodgers repeatedly emphasizes the difficulties they faced (the word “difficult” is used to describe their job at least two dozen times): strict censorship (foreign journalists were forced to clear their dispatches with Soviet authorities until 1961), travel restrictions, limited access to senior officials and ordinary people alike, and the government’s suspicion that Anglo-American correspondents were spies in disguise. Even Rodgers’s discussion of the American journalist Hedrick Smith—who, despite the restrictions, famously managed to produce exceptionally rich and insightful coverage of the Soviet Union and its people in the 1970s—is reduced to Smith’s reflections on how difficult his work was. Rodgers’s narrative rests on an enormous number of articles in Anglo-American media, books by and about journalists, and his own interviews with many Moscow correspondents. He quotes some of them as saying that journalists knew and understood Russia better than diplomats or policymakers did. This may or may not be true. Unfortunately, Rodgers doesn’t give the diplomats and policymakers a chance to respond.
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The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First World War onwards, correspondents in Russia have striven to tell the story of a country known to few outsiders. Their stories have not always been well received by political elites, audiences, and even editors in their own countries-but their accounts have been a huge influence on how the West understands Russia. Not always perfect, at times downright misleading, they have, overall, been immensely valuable. In Assignment Moscow , former foreign correspondent James Rodgers analyses the news coverage of Russia throughout history, from the coverage of the siege of the Winter Palace and a plot to kill Stalin, to the Chernobyl explosion and the Salisbury poison scandal.
“ Assignment Moscow exposes how the Moscow correspondent has had to adapt to multiple manifestations of censorship, or compete with state-run media, the severity of which has ebbed and flowed with changes in regime.” ― History Today “Rodgers's narrative rests on an enormous number of articles in Anglo-American media, books by and about journalists, and his own interviews with many Moscow correspondents.” ― Foreign Affairs Magazine “Rodgers retains his focus on the correspondent's interactions with Russia and Russians, rather than being sidetracked into discussions of normative values or political controversy. This approach prepares the reader for the conclusion, which celebrates the openness and curiosity of the best Russia correspondents, reminding the reader that what they have just read is a history not of Russia but of how Western correspondents have told Russia's stories. Differentiating the two is an important and hitherto neglected task but one that James Rodgers has achieved masterfully.” ― Journalism “Reporting from Russia has never been easy; Rodgers vividly captures the changing fortunes of Moscow correspondents over the past hundred years, as they penetrated the mysteries of life in Russia and brought them to our newspapers and screens. Some were duped, some were fellow-travellers or spies; most battled against censors and blank-faced politicians; all have helped to shape our understanding of the world's biggest country.” ― Angus Roxburgh, former Moscow correspondent for the BBC, Sunday Times and Economist “Writing about journalism in Russia since the revolution, James Rodgers rightly emphasises that to understand Russia you have to talk to people of all kinds. But he argues that even correspondents who knew the language and the history found it hard to report dispassionately because of official obstruction and their own emotional involvement.” ― Rodric Braithwaite “A highly original, engrossing and accessible book, Assignment Moscow stands out among journalistic accounts of Russia for its subtlety, humility and historic scope. It tells the story of British and American journalists who aimed to throw light on Russia from Lenin to Putin, and in the process illuminated the West itself.” ― Arkady Ostrovsky, Author of The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the age of Fake News, Winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize “It is hard to believe that in the torrent of books published on Russia each year, that one could come along as original and valuable as Assignment Moscow. One comes to appreciate the service of our reporting men and women in Moscow. For all their fallibilities, without their dedication, we wouldn't have half the understanding of Russia that we have today, imperfect as it will always be. We therefore owe them – and especially Rodgers as journalist, teacher, analyst and cataloguer – a huge debt.” ― James Nixey, Chatham House “[Rodgers'] experience has been wisely distilled in this fair-minded, balanced and perceptive exploration of the problems reporters have faced in trying to report from Russia.” ― British Journalism Review “Reveals how journalists' experiences reporting from Russia for the past 100 years mirrors its changing attitude to the West.” ― The Journalist
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James Rodgers writes books on international affairs, especially armed conflict. His work has a focus on how the stories of those events are told to the world. Much of his writing draws on his own experience reporting from the former Soviet Union and the Middle East as a journalist from the 1990s onwards. During his BBC career (1995-2010), James completed postings in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza where, from 2002-2004, he was the only international correspondent based in the territory. His numerous other assignments included New York and Washington following the September 11th attacks; reporting from Iraq in 2003 and 2004 during the United States-led invasion; and covering the wars in Chechnya.
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UNDP has been working in India since 1951 in almost all areas of human development. Together with the Government of India and development partners, we have worked towards eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities, strengthening local governance, enhancing community resilience, protecting the environment, supporting policy initiatives and institutional reforms, and accelerating sustainable development for all.
With projects and programmes in every state and union territory in India, UNDP works with national and subnational government, and diverse development actors to deliver people-centric results, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized communities. As the integrator for collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the UN system, we are committed to supporting the Government of India’s national development vision and priorities and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs for the people and the planet. UNDP India’s new Country Programme (2023-2027) builds on our prior work and aims to provide an integrated approach to development solutions in three strategic portfolios:
South-South cooperation, gender equality and social inclusion are promoted across the pillars. The programme is supported by a framework of renewed partnerships and blended finance solutions, strategic innovation and accelerator labs, and data and digital architecture.
You are invited to join a team of future-smart development professionals to support India in achieving the national and globally agreed goals. As part of the UNDP team, your focus will be to work with diverse stakeholders to find country-specific solutions that lead to sustainable development and reach those furthest behind first.
Project Background: The United Nzations Development Programme (UNDP) under its Business and Human Rights (B+HR) project aims to enable Sustainable Economic Development, through the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on Business & Human Rights (BHR). The project promotes the agenda on BHR by working with governments, businesses and civil society in the implementation of the UNGPs at the national level, through dialogue, training, research, civil society action, awareness raising and capacity building activities. The overall objective of the project is to prevent, mitigate and address human rights abuses in business operations and enable a more level playing field for businesses that demonstrate respect for human rights. In so doing, the action aims to strengthen human rights conditions in business operations and supply chains, facilitating sustainable economic growth while also promoting multilateralism.
Supervisor: Business and Human Rights Specialist
Duties and Responsibilities:
Research Analysis and Programme Support
Communications and Knowledge Management:
Engagement with Private Sector, with focus on MSMEs:
Competencies:
Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
Language Requirements:
Application procedure:
The application should contain: Current and complete CV in English; Details of 3 Academic Referees and recommendation letter from the University Candidates who are selected must submit the following documents, upon selection: Official letter from the University confirming enrolment in their undergraduate or graduate-level degree programme.
Proof of medical and life/accident insurance valid for the location in which the internship will be carriedout. Selected intern must have medical and life insurance. Kindly note, UNDP only accepts interns for a minimum of 6 weeks and a maximum of 6 months.
Working arrangements:
IMPORTANT: Family relationships are required to be disclosed in order to avoid real or perceived family influence or conflict of interest, within UNDP. If the candidate/ hiring manager has not disclosedthat he/she was related to an individual employed by UNDP in whatever contractual modality and irrespective of the nature of the family relationship, this may constitute a basis for withdrawing the offer of internship or, ifthe internship hasstarted, to terminate it without notice or indemnity.
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