Are you a young professional interested in working for the United Nations?
Each year, candidates from different countries and fields are invited to
apply to the Young Professionals Programme. This year there will be an exam
targeted towards information management professionals.

Please make sure to read the full description of the YPP examination process
<https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=NCE>, and the full details
of the job posting <https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=81274>.

Some of the key responsibilities of an Associate Officer in INFONET would
be:

• Respond to a variety of inquiries and information requests internally and
externally; prepare related correspondence and input to reports.
• Organize, classify, catalogue and preserve print and electronic
information resources.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of digital libraries,
repositories and archives for UN content, including use of current and
emerging metadata standards, tools and systems for the capture, maintenance
and access to digital files and records, digitization of historical records
and indexing functions.
• Supervise and undertake archival processing activities, records accession
and disposition functions, including records appraisal, by liaising with
records-creating offices on the transfer and/or disposal of records and
analysing and evaluating records for evidential and informational value in
support of records appraisal.
• Develop and maintain online research tools and websites to allow easy
access to United Nations information and data sources including document
repositories, news feeds, newsletters, audio-visual files, e-conferences
and other media; design, develop and populate supporting databases;
document standard operating procedures; integrate with existing information
systems.

If you were
born on or after 1 January 1985 and from one of the following countries,
you are encouraged to apply!

Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahrain,
Belarus, Belize, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central
African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Monaco,
Mozambique, Nauru, Norway, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Qatar,
Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, St Vincent
and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu,
United Arab Emirates, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam.

Best,
Amanda Leinberger

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