Guidelines on Roles and Training Standards for UN Military Staff Officers

Abstract

The Guidelines establish the common set of roles and necessary skills for Staff Officers, noting that post-specific skills (such as operations, intelligence, personnel, logistics, CIMIC, communications, training, planning, engineer, public information, medical and administration) are provided to TCCs in the Job Descriptions for such positions. In order to provide clear guidance for the pre-deployment training of Staff Officers, these Guidelines list the general duties of Staff Officers in UN peacekeeping missions, following each duty with the relevant skill sets. TCCs should ensure that their staff colleges and other institutions for pre-deployment training of Staff Officers provide this material to all Staff Officers to be deployed in UN peacekeeping missions