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Yes. Yes there are. But they are nowhere near as accessible as the Necromancy Upgrade Screen, and there's not a way to bind a persistent minion for a conjurer either.

I was testing this with an old PC. It does work, sort of, but it's iffy. I found it only worked when I dropped a weapon at my feet, walked off to the side to let the zombie have a clear line to get to it, then told it "use this weapon". And, it wouldn't ever equip the last weapon I gave it, but whatever it had picked up just before that one.

Undeath. Both the eternal problem for, and a characteristic facet of the Church of the End of Everything. It is my hope that this tome will help to set to rest some of the irksome disorder and argument about this subject that so often occurs.

The key doctrine relating to Undeath in our order is this:
Undeath is not an    escape or a reward; it is simply a duty of a chosen few who serve the Lord of    the End of Everything.  

In two ways are these servants determined by the Pitiless One's will. One is directly, when one of his Scriveners reaches his or her Appointed time, but is assigned to additional, unending duty as a record-keeper in Undeath. Such is determined by his inscrutable ways, and occurs at the very moment of demise.

Secondly, there is Jergal's action through his hands, his Clergy. If in need of assistance or defence beyond that which mortal servants can bear, His priests, through divine petition may request He defer a creature's body from its Final Resting Place in order that they may serve temporarily the greater cause of Death in the world. However, such is not taken when other methods may serve. In order to be acceptable, the need for such mindless servants must outweigh the cost of interfering with the orderly progress of Death.

Compare this to faiths and organisations which actively encourage the use of undead as disposable minions and menials, or the pursuit of Undeath. One does not pass on or assume duty, one merely takes it up and serves. The creation of free-willed undead, the wish to become one, anything that defers a creature's Eternal Rest for any purpose but service to Death itself if an insult to Jergal and an aberration in natural law, and it is the Scrivener's duty to end such.