A reasonable balance of benefits and motivation for some people, not for others - Legal Officer UNHCR Employee Review

4.0
8 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary. Slow pace. Ultimately no accountability

Cons

Little room for growth as a specialist. Increasingly donor relations oriented

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5.0
18 Jun 2024
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Pros

Honorable, happy, the sense of mission, multicultural, kindness, fulfilled

Cons

complex, dangerous, no night life, water resource limited, traffic congest

3.0
7 Apr 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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