Bureaucracy - Protection Officer UNHCR Employee Review

3.0
4 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Huge operation and organization with lots of resources, fair compensation and benefits, colleagues from all over the world, engaging and meaningful work (sometimes)

Cons

De facto class system that heavily favors international staff, hierarchical top-down structure that paralyzes middle management and junior staff and hampers necessary change and action, plenty of staff in comfy senior management positions not pulling their weight. Realistically difficult to move up or around in the organization without connections.

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5.0
3 Nov 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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