How IGO Jobs builds and verifies its UN jobs index
IGO Jobs is an independent job-discovery platform and is not affiliated with any listed organization. This page explains the index’s official sources, data definitions, AI-assisted standardization, quality controls, date labels and vacancy lifecycle.
What the index covers
The index is source-based. It covers public vacancies published by official United Nations careers websites and the career portals of international organizations, multilateral institutions and selected humanitarian organizations included in the official source directory.
Each listing provides an official public vacancy or application link. IGO Jobs does not accept private or internal vacancies, roles available only through unsupported third-party listings, or records without a verifiable organization-controlled application route.
Organization profiles, mandate summaries and application guidance follow the same provenance standard: official institutional pages are used for factual claims. Market counts, hiring patterns, rankings and other IGO Jobs insights are independently calculated from the IGO Jobs database and are not official employer statistics.
How vacancies enter the index
The same five-stage process is applied across current United Nations jobs and international organization careers.
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Collect from official public sources
IGO Jobs reads active vacancy information published on official UN careers websites and the public career portals of listed international organizations. The standard refresh cycle is every 12 hours.
- 2
Normalize for comparison
Organization names, locations, grades, position categories, experience levels, contract types, work arrangements and languages are mapped to consistent labels while the employer’s meaning is preserved.
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Structure with AI assistance
Evidence-bound AI extraction turns long vacancy notices into concise summaries, responsibilities, requirements, skills and structured fields. Controlled taxonomies and low-variance outputs reduce inconsistent wording.
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Run quality controls
Validation checks look for missing evidence, contradictory fields, duplicate records, invalid locations, broken application destinations and inconsistent language or position classifications before publication.
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Publish, refresh and close
Qualified records appear in the active UN jobs index. Updated details replace older values after a later source check. Jobs leave active search when the published deadline passes or the official source confirms closure.
How AI supports each listing
IGO Jobs uses AI agents for structured extraction, evidence-bound summarization and taxonomy classification. The system identifies responsibilities, minimum requirements, desired criteria, skills, tools, languages, education, experience, employment type and work arrangement from the official vacancy information.
AI does not replace the source description or create new eligibility rules. It removes repetitive organizational language, translates non-English information into clear English when necessary, and presents equivalent fields consistently so candidates can compare vacancies more quickly.
Important distinctions are preserved: required versus desired criteria, employer-supplied versus estimated values, one-of versus all-of language conditions, and explicit details versus missing information. Unsupported fields are left empty.
Evidence bound
Every extracted claim must be supported by the vacancy or its official metadata.
Controlled vocabulary
Grades, locations, position types and job areas use maintained sitewide taxonomies.
Deterministic checks
Rules validate structured outputs before a listing becomes publicly visible.
Quality and verification checks
Source verification
Every published vacancy retains an official public vacancy or application destination so users can verify material details and apply through the organization.
Duplicate control
Organization identifiers, vacancy references, source URLs and core job details are compared before records are merged. Ambiguous matches remain separate.
Requirement integrity
Required education, experience, languages and eligibility conditions are separated from desired criteria. Unsupported details remain empty rather than being inferred as facts.
Human-assisted review
Automated checks are supplemented by regular human-assisted maintenance, source audits and correction reviews.
Records that fail required checks are held back for review rather than published with guessed values. Corrections to one listing can also inform broader rules when the same issue affects a source or classification.
Dates and vacancy status
Posted on
The publication date supplied by the organization. This label appears only when the official source provides a posted date.
Synced on
The date IGO Jobs first recorded the vacancy. It is used when the organization does not publish a posted date and is not presented as an employer-supplied date.
Deadline
The closing date supplied by the organization. Applicants should confirm the exact time and time zone on the official vacancy page.
Estimated deadline
A clearly labeled operational date used only for the small number of sources without a fixed closing date. The listing is refreshed against the official source, and source status takes priority over the estimate.
New vacancies appear after collection, standardization and validation. A published deadline change is reflected after a later official-source refresh.
Once a vacancy closes, it is removed from active results and the jobs sitemap, and its JobPosting structured data is withdrawn. A closed record may remain available to a user who saved or tracked it, with the application action removed and the status clearly marked.
Limitations and corrections
An organization may withdraw or change a vacancy between scheduled checks, so IGO Jobs can briefly show an older status. Public career systems can also be unavailable, delayed or incomplete. These cases are handled conservatively and reviewed against the official source.
Salary estimates, market views, match scores, hiring trends and organization insights produced by IGO Jobs are independent informational outputs. They are not employer commitments, official headcount figures or selection decisions.
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Official career sources
The source directory lists each covered organization, its careers URL and current source status.