Great satisfaction, benefits but stagnant progression - Associate UNHCR Employee Review

4.0
7 May 2024
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Pros

If you to make a difference in the most vulnerable people's lives, with livable wage and comprehensive benefits. This is the place. You can have a proper work-life balance where your supervisors will forget you during the weekends. It's a tough place, but everyone knows that and it feels that we're all in it together.

Cons

Career progression is stagnant as it works on vacancies. There are wage increments and reviews, but your career and role is dependent on turnover rates. As the international humanitarian agency, mental health is a big thing and leads to any turnovers.

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5.0
3 Nov 2024
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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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