Job Opening Options

Based on GJP: This option allows you to select a generic job profile (GJP) as your template for building your job opening.

GJPs are standard job descriptions that encompass a large group of related jobs for which major job characteristics are similar in duties and responsibilities, education, work experience, technical skills, and essential core competencies.

The primary purpose of GJPs is to streamline the front end of the recruitment process by reducing the number of job descriptions requiring unique drafting and classification. GJPs enhance transparency of overall duties and qualifications in a functional area required for the performance of a job. They increase clarity regarding the skills and professional experience required.

GJPs are centrally approved for all UN Secretariat offices. You can view the current list of approved GJPs on iSeek.

Based on Approved Job Opening: This option allows you to use a job opening that was previously published in inspira within the last 12 months as basis for your job opening draft.

New Job Opening:
If:

• there is no applicable job opening that was published within the past year that suits your needs, or
• there is no generic job profile available for the job for which you want to recruit, or
• this is a newly established post, or
• the responsibilities of the job have changed since it was last classified, you have the option of using an offline job description, as long as it has gone through the classification review process.
  

This option is known as a New Job Opening, since it does not yet exist in inspira. It requires you to manually enter the details of the offline job description into inspira.

There are two types of classified job descriptions that can be used in this case:

1. Individual Job Descriptions where the duties and responsibilities of the job are associated with one individual post for which you want to recruit, or,
2. Standard Job Descriptions where the duties and responsibilities of the job apply to two or more posts, identical in nature to the post for which you want to recruit.
   

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