Contract Types

As a global organization, UNDP requires a mix of contract types to cover all individuals employed either for UNDP or on behalf of others. To fill the job openings, UNDP has a wide array of recruitment tools. The UNDP policy is to fill job vacancies, as much as possible, through internal reassignments, to capitalize on the investment made in recruiting and developing staff. UNDP applies several types of contracts for hiring personnel. Types of contract to be concluded with individuals depend on a number of criteria, e.g. legal basis, or duration of services. UNDP can hire personnel through international or local recruitment. The standard types of contracts are:

Fixed-term Contracts: Staff members recruited under FT are governed by the UN Staff Rules and employed on core activities of continuing nature within the office. The salary scale is determined by periodic salary surveys and is based on the best prevailing rates in the locality for nationals carrying out functions of the same level. The international scale is based on best comparator civil service.

Temporary Appointment: Staff members recruited under the Temporary Appointment are governed by the UN Staff Rules. The purpose of this assignment type is to support special activities which are for a limited period and budget.

Service Contracts is a modality for hiring individuals under a non-staff contract. The SC is intended for engaging individuals under the following conditions:

• National personnel or others legally authorized to work in the country;
• For non-core support services in the UNDP Office that would normally be outsourced to a company, i.e. custodial, security and IT service - see the UN circular ST/IC/2005/30 on outsourcing;
• For development projects' personnel, where UNDP on request of an executing entity, or implementing partner under the harmonized operational modalities , or where UNDP itself serves as executing entity/implementing partner of a development project (DEX projects) provides personnel contracting services to support execution or implementation of the project; the SC issued will be limited to services to that project only and
• No authority other than UNDP may issue a UNDP SC. Usually a SC is issued for a minimum period of 6 months, renewable, but not more than 12 months at a time. Remuneration under a SC must be consistent with prevailing levels of pay for similar functions and comparable work in the local labour market.

UNDP Iran Office Staff

The table below shows the staff composition of the UNDP country office in Iran, as of 15 January 2011: