The secretariat will seek overhead resources for additional administrative posts in the professional and general service categories.

Delegates are kindly requested to bring their copies of documents to meetings.

In 2003, the total vacancy rate, excluding projects posts, was 2.7 per cent for Professional and General Service staff and 3.4 per cent for Professional staff only.

Functional title of posts in the Professional category and related job description summaries

The justification of the additional posts and temporary positions is as follows.

Administrative instruction ST AI 2002 4 specifies geographic status as the status given to staff in the Professional category and above on recruitment for one year or longer against a post subject to equitable geographical distribution and to the application of the system of desirable ranges, i.e., a regular budget post in the Secretariat at the Professional level or above (except language posts up to P 5).

VI. Functional title of posts in the Professional category and related job description summaries

By December 2004, the vacancy rate, excluding projects posts, was 8.9 per cent for Professional and General Service staff and 11.9 per cent for Professional staff only.

Accomplishments are the direct consequence or effect of the generation of outputs and lead to the fulfilment of a certain objective.

Also, in secondary vocational school, vocational education for work is provided over the period of one or years (simpler vocations).

Of the requested 499 posts and temporary positions, a total of 452 posts and temporary positions would be deployed to the field.

Our work is across media. The work comes in all shapes and sizes.

Career diplomat (Ambassador) in the Brazilian Foreign Service

Minister Second Class (merit), April 1978

Self reliance options include direct job placement, job oriented vocational training and micro finance.

13. In addition, loan programmes are implemented to support the starting up by the unemployed of individual economic activity, and to support the creation of additional jobs by employers.

No limit to additional earnings (with the exception of the widow apos s widower apos s pension at the high rate payable because of occupational disability total invalidity).

Moreover, additional human resources were needed for audit and investigation functions.

Heads of departments should take the lead in facilitating training and career development for staff in these categories, by such means as managed rotation between posts and assignments, movement within and between occupations, and the acquisition of skills in different areas.

Instead, personnel were often assigned to that function on an ad hoc basis, with that role being assumed in addition to their existing responsibilities.

It also decided that considerations other than the length of service, such as performance, operational realities and post functions, should be taken into account at the threshold of permanency of appointment.

Civilian patterna Additional requirements due to the increase in civilian staffing.

Variant 2w considers all staff in the Professional and higher categories under the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources as having geographic status.

The average grade level of international Professional posts is maintained at 4.2.

The office would be staffed by four posts at the Professional level and above (1 D 2, 1 D 1, 1 P 5 and 1 P 4) and three General Service (Other level) posts. The capacity of the office would be supplemented by resources for the employment of outside expertise and for its operational requirements.

As can be seen from table 1 of the report, of the 10 Professional level posts in the Office of the Director, 3 posts are at the P 5 level, while overall there are 8 P 5 posts for the Mission.

(c) Because these emigrants paid contributions for lower professional categories, so that they were much lower.

Funding was increased in 1997 to finance one additional professional and two additional general service posts.

Of the 382 additional posts and temporary positions, 168 posts are in support of the expansion, while 214 temporary positions are for support to the electoral process.

In the past, the Committee has recommended an increase in entry level posts in the professional category at UNFPA it therefore notes with satisfaction that, of the 10 new Professional posts proposed at headquarters, four are at the P 3 level and below.

ANNEX Centre for Human Rights staffing table, Professional category and above

Additional civilian staff for identification and demining activities.

Concerning Professional posts, the change in the number of posts at the Professional level and above from 3,963 to 4,045 mainly reflects a strengthening in key areas at the P 1 2 to P 4 levels.

Micro credit for self employment and small entrepreneurial ventures, especially for women.

In addition, an integrated series of Career Support Programmes has been launched, including career planning workshops, a career information lecture series, as well as a library of career support self study materials.

Finance Assistant (FS (OL), 1 post)

It also provided for an increase in the number of posts compared with the authorized posts mentioned above this time, the increase consisted of 167 posts, including 111 international posts, divided as follows 31 Professional, and 80 General Service and related categories. The rest of the posts were local posts.

91. The staffing indicated for the Office of the Director in the previous support account budget was incorrect the posts required to carry out these functions comprise four posts in the Professional category and above and four General Service posts.

In addition a number of technical colleges and vocational training institutes provide technical and vocational education at the secondary level.

Comparison of average net remuneration of United Nations officials in the Professional and higher categories in New York and United States officials in Washington, D.C., by equivalent grades (margin for calendar year 2003)

This includes the downgrading of two professional positions and the elimination of eight professional and two general service positions.

(b) Businesses or business associations working in partnership with an in house or external training agency

Women held 17, or 32 per cent, of the 53 encumbered Professional posts as of 30 June 1998, including the position of Director and two section chief positions.

Even though differences still exist in the choices girls and boys make in vocational education, there are also young women who study the so called male professions , except for those which are prohibited for women by the Occupational Health and Safety Act (underground mining, some maritime occupations, etc.).

Staffing of the office of the Chief of Operations remains at the current level of two Professional posts and one General Service (Other level) post.