ICSC : Human Resources Policies Division

ICSC Secretariat
Human Resources Policies Division

General Information
	About the Commission
	What Does ICSC Do?
	What Is The Common System?
	Who Belongs To The Common System?
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ICSC Secretariat

Divisions :

Office of the Executive Secretary

Cost-of-Living

Human Resources Policies

• Human Resource
     Management
• Job Evaluation
• Mobility and
      Hardship
• Hazard Pay
• Work/Life Agenda
      and Gender Equity
• Links to Job
      Opportunities in
      the UN System

Salaries and Allowances

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In support of the work of the International Civil Service Commission, the role of the Human Resources Policies Division is to develop proposals for the establishment, revision and/or enhancement of human resources management policies in the common system with particular reference to job evaluation, career structures, staff development schemes, performance management systems, recruitment and mobility procedures, and gender equity strategies, and to support unity of implementation of these policies in the organizations of the common system.

Mr. Duncan Barclay
Chief, Human Resources Policies Division

In carrying out this function, the Division is responsible for:

Leading and preparing studies on specific aspects of human resources management and providing policy guidance to the organizations on the conditions of service of staff as approved by the Commission and the General Assembly.
Establishing, reviewing and updating related tools such as job evaluation manuals and handbooks and advising and training organizations in their application.
Classifying duty stations according to conditions of life and work under the mobility and hardship scheme and recommending the granting of hazard pay.
Preparing studies for the establishment of policies governing a work/life agenda for staff in the common system.
Monitoring and reporting on the implementation by organizations of all recommendations and decisions of the ICSC including the improvement of the status of women in the common system.
Issuing a compendium of decisions and recommendations of the ICSC for the information of organizations of the common system.
Providing guidance, advice and training to organizations of the common system in any relevant area of work.