Life time experience! - Communty Services Assistant UNHCR Employee Review

4.0
Aug 2, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Professionalism, good pay, life / work balance exposure to various experiences, rewarding job. good training opportunities, good chances of promotion and improvement.

Cons

the donor policy controls almost everything, which might sometimes be against your standards. focus on quantitative work more than the qualitative.

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5.0
Mar 17, 2025
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Pros

multicultural work experience open to telework from home some days better benefits for international positions and more opportunities for career growth

Cons

not easy to always have work balance, depending on the position not many opportunities for career growth for local positions

3.0
Apr 7, 2026
Recommend
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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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