High turnover - Associate Officer UNHCR Employee Review

2.0
4 Aug 2022
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Pros

- you feel like making a great change in refugee lives. - international environment - cheap food in the canteen

Cons

- uptight culture. some people are too serious - toxic workplace - People spend time criticizing other NGO's work. The culture breeding a horrible god complex among their staffs. - high expectation from the staff but poor management with little support - not much room to do global training and no allocation for staff development. - almost zero work-life balance.

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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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