A good place to work with lots of employee benefits, but be ready to sell our soul - Senior Protection Associate UNHCR Employee Review

4.0
12 Jul 2020
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Pros

-Multicultural Setting - lots of Learning opportunities -friendly colleagues

Cons

-Bureaucracy, mid or low-level staffs do not have any decision making power -frequent staff turnover -not strategic in planning and executing the organization's mandates and objectives

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5.0
3 Nov 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Best Mandate to see people of Concerns benefit. opportunity to be in an international team

Cons

instability of employment contract and job opportunities

3.0
7 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good benefits, you really do help people

Cons

Human Resources takes a highly specialized approach to talent management. In that you cannot really change functions easily in UNHCR. You have to hyper-specialize in one area. So if you are a protection staff, you tend to burn out from trauma without an internal mechanism to alleviate the burnout. The higher you go in UNHCR, the crazier you become.

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