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 Four UNDP JPOs funded by Greece have recently started their assignment. We would like to take this opportunity to celebrate Greece’s participation in the UNDP JPO Programme and the fruitful collaboration between the Ministry of Economy and Finance and UNDP.
In regards to this, the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance has kindly accepted to share the background and context of its participation in the UNDP JPO Programme.
Moreover, two of the new Greek JPOs have shared their first impressions at work and have written an article each for our quarterly Information Bulletin. Here you can read about Kelly Papadaki based in Geneva, Switzerland and Dionysia Rigatou, based in Ankara, Turkey.
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 We are pleased to announce the launch of JPO-Net space in Teamworks, which will replace our email-based JPO discussion group (331 JPOs as of now).
Through this space, JPOs will be able to communicate amongst each other, while it will also allow for a streamlined communication between the JPO Service Centre and the JPO community.
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Ms. Pilar Perona Larraz, Chief of the Recruitment for International Organizations Area of Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) , is about to start enjoying a well-deserved retirement. With her hopes set in the future and her head full of memories, we have asked her to look back for a moment. To read her interview, click here
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 The content of our JPO Career Management Website has been reviewed and updated in three languages.
This Website provides a platform of information, tools and resources for career planning purposes within UNDP and the United Nations System. It may assist you in developing a career strategy and preparing your CV and application or for the competency-based interview.
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The JPOSC is pleased to share with you the latest staffing update from the JPO Service Centre:
The JPO Service Centre has moved back to its premises
 Due to a severe storm in Copenhagen on 2 July 2011, part of the UN House was flooded and the offices of the JPO Service Centre were seriously damaged. After a temporary relocation, the JPO Service Centre team has now moved back to its premises. We would like to thank all our partners for their support and patience during the last couple of months when we had to cope with this unexpected situation!
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Alli, Iina-Elina (Finland) UNFPA, Rwanda
Chus, Maria-Karina (France), UNOPS, Denmark
Fostvedt, Audun (Norway), UNDP, Sudan
Guse, Kornelia (Germany), UNDP-UNV, Germany
Hauser, Benjamin (Germany), WHO, Switzerland
Kenngott, Carola (Germany), UNDP, USA
Kirchner, Markus (Germany), WHO, Denmark
Kubitscheck, Jonas (Germany), UNRWA, Jordan
Minsat, Arthur (France), UNDP, USA
Scolaro, Elisa (Italy), WHO, Switzerland
Taniguchi, Eri (Japan), UNFPA, Mongolia
Vaquier, Damien (France), UNRWA, Occupied Palestinian Territory
Yokoyama, Masako (Japan) UNDP Timor Leste
Welcome also to the new SARC (and former JPO), Stine Heiselberg , (Denmark), UNDP, Nepal as well.
We would like to say goodbye and wish all the best to the following colleagues who ended their JPO assignment since September 2011:
Benito Lopez, Maria Teresa (Spain), UNDP-UNCDF, Bangladesh
Mattsson, Lisa (Sweden), UNDP, Kosovo, UN Administered Territory
Moreau, Jennifer (Germany), UNDP, USA
Omer Hassan, Azza (The Netherlands), UNFPA, India
Pettersson, Karen (Norway), UNAIDS, Ethiopia
Takimoto, Asako (Japan), UNDP, Pakistan
Van den Heuvel, Onno (The Netherlands), UNDP, Mongolia
Yokota, Mio (Japan), UNDP, Mongolia
We would like also to say goodbye to the three following colleagues who have ended their SARCs assignments:
Joaquin Jose Azpiroz Echecolonea (Spain), UNDP El Salvador
Martin Hart-Hansen (Denmark), UNDP Nepal
Laila Milad (Denmark), UNDP Jordan
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How to read your Personal Action (PA) Report (upon initial appointment):
As the Personal Action report can be a complex document to understand for the new staff members, we have been working on a document for JPOs explaining/clarifying the main points of the PAs.
An overview of the document is accessible on the JPOSC website.
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 A revised and updated beginner's guide to the United Nations Development Programme in French is now available on our website. It establishes a brief and concise overview of the organization‘s multifaceted structure and its ongoing transformations. It is written to give you a snap-shot of where UNDP stands now, as well as providing an overview of the basic structures and systems of UNDP. Bonne lecture !
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The next JPO workshop on Results-Based Management, which will take place in Merida, Mexico, from 30 October to 4 November.
The objectives of the two week induction workshop are to:
1) Help Junior Professional Officers (JPOs) become more effective programme officers in the strategic programmatic and operational areas in the UNDP Country offices where they serve; and
2) To provide a safe learning environment where JPOs can deepen their knowledge, skills, and competencies, through networking, sharing experiences and practicing new leadership behaviors.
More information is available on the JPO-Net on Teamworks |
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The JPOSC Human Resources Practitioners have been trained to conduct Career Coaching
session, and we are pleased to announce that we are now able to offer Career Coaching to
UNDP (and affiliated) JPOs as well as UN Women JPOs and SARCs in their last year of
assignment. For more information on the different kinds of career services and tools available, please consult
the brochure on the JPO Career Support Programme.
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 The JPO Mentoring Programme was launched in early 2010. It is available to all JPOs, but may be particularly relevant to those who have recently started their assignment. Two JPOs who participated in the JPO Mentoring Programme have kindly accepted to share their feedback with us. Below they explain why they decided to participate and how their expectations were met. Many thanks to them for sharing their stories! To read their feedback, please click here |
Kindly find under the following link the Frequently Asked Questions on the UNDP JPO Recruitment Guidelines. It compiles queries received by the JPOSC from JPOs with regards to the recruitment guidelines, Time-in-Post policy, and internal/external candidate status. For UNDP JPOs/SARCs who are approaching the end of their assignment, this information will help them to get some clarity on their status. |
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The JPOSC is pleased to share with you the latest staffing update from the JPO Service Centre:
 Due to a severe storm in Copenhagen on the night of 2 July 2011, part of the UN House was flooded and the offices of the JPO Service Centre were seriously damaged. The JPO Service Centre team has been temporally relocated as the office needs to be refurbished. We would like to thank all our partners for their understanding and for the words of support received while we had to cope with this unexpected situation!
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 A revised and updated beginner's guide to UNDP in Spanish is now available on our website.
It establishes a brief yet concise overview of the organisation‘s multifaceted structure and its ongoing transformations. It is written to give you a snap-shot of where UNDP stands now, as well as providing an overview of the basic structures and systems of UNDP. The updated French version will follow shortly.
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| Aoki, Mariko (Japan), UNDP, Pakistan
Baribonekeza, Jean-Baptiste (The Netherlands), UNDP, Senegal
Fukuda, Kazuo (Japan), UNDP, Lao People's Democratic Rep
Kiapi, Sandra (The Netherlands), UN Women, Sudan
Lanzoni, Marta (The Netherlands), UNDP-UNDOCO, USA
Narasimhan, Rina (Norway), UNDP, USA
Palli, Sofia (Greece), UNDP, USA
Papadaki, Kelly (Greece), UNDP, Switzerland
Pesonen, Mari (Finland), UNDP, USA
Rigatou, Dionysia (Greece), UNDP, Turkey
Sugiura, Kanna (Japan), WHO, Switzerland
Welcome also to the new SARC (and former JPO), Joaquin Jose Azpiroz Echecolonea, (Spain), UNDP, El Salvador
We would like to say goodbye and wish all the best to the following colleagues who ended their JPO assignment since June 2011:
Alfaro Pelico, Raul Ivan (Spain), UNDP, Namibia
Basty-Hamimi, Florence (France), UN Women, Morocco
Becerra Molina, Noemi, (Spain), UNRWA, USA
Beuming, Floor (The Netherlands), UNDP, Sri Lanka
Castillo Alvarez, Javier, (Spain), UNRWA, Jordan
Chazelle, Emilie (France), UNRWA, Jordan
Chege, Eunice (Belgium), WHO, Tanzania, United Republic of
Djurhuus, Kara (Denmark), UNFPA, Uganda
Heitmann, Silje (Norway), UNFPA, Eritrea
Jeppesen, Rasmus (Denmark), UNDP, South Africa
Kaneko, Katsuhiro (Japan), UN Women, Pakistan
Kratochvil, Cornelia (Austria), UNDP, Lao People's Democratic Rep
Meertens, Soetkin (Belgium), UN Women, Mali
Sangiuliano, Sara (Italy), UNDP-UNCDF, Senegal
Schoen, Georg (Austria), UNDP, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
Viaud, Amelia Chantille (Canada), UNDP, Ghana
Windisch-Graetz, Alexandra Marie Christine (Austria), UNDP, Sudan
Zwetsloot, Anneke (The Netherlands), UNFPA, Colombia
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"It was a warm autumn day in 2008, as I finished packing my bags and loaded them and my semi-drugged cat into my car. As I left Jerusalem and made my way down into the Jordan Valley en route to Amman, it was with very mixed feelings - I was eager to start a new job with the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator for Jordan, but also sad to leave behind colleagues, friends, and Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) which for good and bad had been my home for three very eventful years." Read Laila' story...
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 We are still in period of summer holidays and the planning of home leave for the summer is ongoing... if not already done. The queries then also come along, e.g. on how Home Leave points are accumulated and who processes the relevant payments. You will find most of the answers to those questions and useful information about the Home Leave entitlement on the dedicated pages on the UNDP intranet or on UN.org. The UNDP Home Leave Guidelines also provide detailed information. Enjoy your holidays!
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For the last ten years, Annelie Rostedt has been working in the areas of development, human rights, social security/protection and migration. She started her UN career in 2005 with her JPO assignment with WHO in Uganda. Her JPO career path led her to Geneva, before starting as a SARC in Zambia. Click here to read her story.
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Our JPOs who were in New York attending the last JPO PPO Workshop in June have kindly shared their group picture with us.
If you want more information regarding the future PPO courses, please consult this link.
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Five Policy, Programme and Operations JPO Induction Workshops will be offered this year as a part of the Competency Based Learning Programme for UNDP JPOs.
The next PPO course is taking place from 28 March to 8 April 2011.
To find out about the confirmed and tentative dates please click here
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For the Spring edition of the online newsletter, we will visit Piedad Martin in Mexico:
She has kindly accepted to tell us her story and guide us through her career and impressions. After being a JPO in Colombia, she has now taken up her new assignment as a SARC in Mexico City. Read the article... |
 Results of the 2010 JPO, Donor and Organization Surveys are online! We are proud to announce that the satisfaction rates continue to be very high, i.e. 77% of JPOs are generally satisfied or very satisfied with their assignment, and that the results testify the continuous excellent administrative support provided by the JPOSC, with 91% of the respondents either satisfied or very satisfied. Thanks to all respondents. Read more...
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The JPOSC is pleased to share with you the latest staffing update from the JPO Service Centre:
.jpg) Eiko Lew-Sato joined the Learning Resources Centre team in NY Headquarters, as a Learning Analyst. She will be coordinating, planning, developing and delivering JPO learning activities. Her activities will also involve researching and developing leadership development and management skills learning programme for UNDP entry level managers. She looks forward to working with the JPOSC in delivering learning activities for JPOs.
She graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University with Educational Masters in International Educational Development.
 Nadia Simonsen, HR Associate has joined the Benefits and Entitlements team of the Staff Administrative Services in Copenhagen. Nadia joined the JPO Service Centre in September 2007 and we take this opportunity to thank Nadia for her great work and congratulate her on her new position!
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| Baer, Britta (Germany), WHO Switzerland
Andrejew-Janssens, Anna (The Netherlands), UNRWA Jordan
Bubenzer, Ole (Germany), UNDP-UNV Germany
Calderon, Ernesto (The Nethelands), UNDP USA
Diaz Garcia, Victoria (Spain), UN Women Senegal
Feinaeugle, Clemens (Germany), WHO Switzerland
Franke, Alexis (The Nethelands), UNDP Kosovo,UN Administered Territory
Manome, Minako (Japan), UNDP USA
Martinez Alandi, Guillermo (Spain), UNAIDS Sudan
Kato, Mio (Japan), UNDP Fiji
Veigas Rodriguez, Alejandro (Spain), UN Women USA
Verley Kvittingen, Anna (Norway), UNRWA Jordan
Wilmer,Yvonne (The Netherlands), UNDP Indonesia
Appasami, Lovena (Switzerland), UNRWA Syria
Skarsaune, Elise (Norway), UN Women China
Skaardal, Helene (Norway), UNRWA Jerusalem (OPT)
Zafiryadis, Christelle (Denmark), UNFPA Burkina
Wilhelmsen, Erlend (Norway), UNDP USA
Wortelboer, Valentijn Sebastiaan (The Netherlands), UNDP Guatemala
We would like to say goodbye and wish all the best to the following colleagues who ended their JPO assignment in March 2011:
Amsler, Susanne (Belgium), UNFPA Tanzania
Aschjem, Camilla (Norway), UNDP Somalia
Eckert, Carolin Karin (Germany), UNDP USA
Chung, Jee Eun (Rep. of Korea), UNDP South Africa
Baumann, Marco (Germany), UNDP USA
Bayer, Christophe (Germany), WHO Denmark
Garcia Mateos, Barbara (Spain), UNIDO Morocco
Harkonen, Ulla (Finland), WHO Cambodia
Nombella, Nohelly (Spain), WHO Switzerland
Ouarzazi, Leslie (France), WHO Switzerland
Saebo, Johan Ivar (Norway), WHO Switzerland
Sakai, Yuichiro (Japan), UNDP Sierra Leone |
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 The UNFPA Induction Training is being held from 28 March to 8 April 2011 in New York.
The workshop comprises ten working days. Meetings and networking activities may be scheduled after 5:30pm.
In addition, National Officers (NOs), recently recruited by UNFPA will also be invited to the Workshop in order to promote and strengthen collaboration among UNFPA staff.
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 As UN staff, we must perform at the highest standards of integrity, required by the Charter of the United Nations. Even if we have been trained and we are fully aware of how to comply with these standards, it is always convenient to refresh our knowledge from time to time. Let's make a small test:
May we sign petitions from organizations such as human rights organizations or NGOs? Yes / No
There will be a pro-human rights demonstration in the capital at my duty station. Am I allowed to attend since the UN defends and promotes human rights? Yes / No
May we be outspoken about our views (i.e. political) on Facebook, blogs, and such virtual tools? Yes / No
Regarding the approval for an outside activity, if engaging in a similar activity (or second "phase" of the same activity) for which the approval for outside activity was already received, do we have to re-submit the request form? Yes / No
If you replied yes to any of these questions or even hesitated on your response, you may want to have a look at the following article.
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 For the JPO Stories, Pauni Obregón Ortega gives an account of his experience as a JPO in Panama. Funded by Spain, Pauni works for UNDP at the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Service Centre in Panama city. Read more...
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 New: Online Database summarizing your DTTA experiences. Thanks to your inputs and feedback, we developed a comprehensive and concise database summarising the different courses and travels JPOs have made using their DTTA. Read more...
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