diff --git a/api/openapi.yaml b/api/openapi.yaml
index 7d5f977..6249f04 100644
--- a/api/openapi.yaml
+++ b/api/openapi.yaml
@@ -170,6 +170,28 @@ paths:
           description: 'Bad request'
         404:
           description: 'Resource not found'
+  '/api/jobs/import/':
+    post:
+      operationId: 'importJob'
+      summary: 'Imports a job and its metric data'
+      requestBody:
+        required: true
+        content:
+          'application/json':
+            schema:
+              type: object
+              properties:
+                meta:
+                  $ref: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-specifications/master/schema/json/job-meta.schema.json
+                data:
+                  $ref: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-specifications/master/schema/json/job-data.schema.json
+      responses:
+        200:
+          description: 'Import successful'
+        400:
+          description: 'Bad request'
+        422:
+          description: 'Unprocessable Entity'
 components:
   schemas:
     Tag:
diff --git a/api/rest.go b/api/rest.go
index 8f50c8c..1667caf 100644
--- a/api/rest.go
+++ b/api/rest.go
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ func (api *RestApi) MountRoutes(r *mux.Router) {
 	r.HandleFunc("/jobs/start_job/", api.startJob).Methods(http.MethodPost, http.MethodPut)
 	r.HandleFunc("/jobs/stop_job/", api.stopJob).Methods(http.MethodPost, http.MethodPut)
 	r.HandleFunc("/jobs/stop_job/{id}", api.stopJob).Methods(http.MethodPost, http.MethodPut)
+	r.HandleFunc("/jobs/import/", api.importJob).Methods(http.MethodPost, http.MethodPut)
 
 	r.HandleFunc("/jobs/", api.getJobs).Methods(http.MethodGet)
 	// r.HandleFunc("/jobs/{id}", api.getJob).Methods(http.MethodGet)
@@ -399,6 +400,29 @@ func (api *RestApi) stopJob(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}()
 }
 
+func (api *RestApi) importJob(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if user := auth.GetUser(r.Context()); user != nil && !user.HasRole(auth.RoleApi) {
+		handleError(fmt.Errorf("missing role: %#v", auth.RoleApi), http.StatusForbidden, rw)
+		return
+	}
+
+	var body struct {
+		Meta *schema.JobMeta `json:"meta"`
+		Data *schema.JobData `json:"data"`
+	}
+	if err := decode(r.Body, &body); err != nil {
+		handleError(fmt.Errorf("import failed: %s", err.Error()), http.StatusBadRequest, rw)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if err := api.JobRepository.ImportJob(body.Meta, body.Data); err != nil {
+		handleError(fmt.Errorf("import failed: %s", err.Error()), http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, rw)
+		return
+	}
+
+	rw.Write([]byte(`{ "status": "OK" }`))
+}
+
 func (api *RestApi) getJobMetrics(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	id := mux.Vars(r)["id"]
 	metrics := r.URL.Query()["metric"]