African Union Cataloguer Grade: GSA5

The African Union, established as a unique Pan African continental body, is charged with spearheading Africa’s rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States as well as developing a new partnership worldwide. Its Headquarters is located in Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.

In seeking to achieve these objectives, the African Union intends to strengthen its capacity to deliver by, among others, the implementation of new organization structure and the filling of vacant posts.

The Commission of the African Union invites applicants who are citizens of Member States for the post of Cataloguer.

1. Post:

Job Title: Cataloguer

Grade: GSA5
Supervisor: Librarian
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2. Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Librarian, the cataloguer prepares the history of each record that may be paper document, microfiches, CD-ROM, diskette, etc. The making of bibliographical records keeps international standard so as to enhanceinformation dissemination and exchange.

a) Familiarizes him/herself with the document and its contents;

b) Identifies the concepts with which the information is concerned;

c) Analyses carefully the information to be indexed;

d) Creates original catalogue records for monographs, serials and other electronic formats following established bibliographic and local standards;

e) Describes the concepts adequately;

f) Concentrates in brief form the essential qualities of a document (abstracting) with key words;

g) Produces an adequate bibliographical description;

h) Introduces new key words;

i) Participates in the generation of different products and services such as selected bibliographies, acquisition lists, SDI, Searches, etc.

j) Assists in the management of the bibliographic database;

k) Adheres to standard bibliographic and local standards, searches various bibliographic databases for existing materials, edits and transfers records to local database;

l) Develops and monitors application of relevant International standards (professionalism) and local requirements, procedures, processes and practices for indexing / abstracting, and classifying.

m) Performs any other duties as may be assigned by Supervisor.

3. Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Diploma in Library Science from a recognized University/College.

• A minimum of five years relevant working experience.

• Computer literacy is obligatory.

4. Language Requirement:

Proficiency in one of the African Union working languages. Proficiency of one or several other working language(s) would be an added advantage.

5. Age Requirement:

Candidates must preferably be between 30 and 45 years old.

6. Tenure of Appointment:

The appointment will be made on fixed term contract for a period of three (3) years, of which the first twelve months be consider as a probationary period. Thereafter, the contract will be for a period of two years renewable, subject to satisfactory performance and deliverables.

7. Gender Mainstreaming:

The AU Commission is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

8. Remuneration:

Indicative basic salary US$ 14,145.00 per annum plus other related entitlements e.g. post adjustment (46% of basic salary), housing allowance (US$14,414.40 per annum), education allowance (75% of tuition and other related expenses for every eligible dependent up to a maximum of US$7,800.00 per child per annum), etc. for internationally recruited staff of the Commission.


The applications must be made through the AUC E-recruitment Website http://www.aucareers.org not later than8th October 2012 .

Directorate of Administration and Human Resource Management

African Union Commission
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)