Organization
The Secretariat is divided into offices and departments. The hierarchy within each is as follows :
- Office: a minimum of 20 high level professionals under the supervision of a D-2 staff member (Division Head), or in few cases an Assistant Secretary General or Under Secretary General
- Division: a minimum of 15 high level professionals under the supervision of a D-2 staff member (Division Head)
- Service: a minimum of 8 high level professionals under the supervision of a D-1 (General Administrator) staff member
- Section: a minimum of 4 professionals under the supervisions of a P-4 (8-12 years experience) or a P-5 (13-17 years experience) staff member
- Unit: a minimum of 4 positions under the supervision of a chief
Offices
- Executive Office of the Secretary-General
- United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)
- United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
- United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- United Nations Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC)
- United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS)
Departments
- United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
- United Nations Department of Management (DM)
- United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
- United Nations Department of Field Support (DFS)
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
- United Nations Department of General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)
- United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)
- United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS)
Offices Away from Headquarters
- United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
- United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
- United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)
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