Needs reform desperately - Communications Officer UNHCR Employee Review

2.0
Dec 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

If you're lucky, you'll get a great manager. After eight postings, I only had a good one once.

Cons

If you're on a non-staff contract, you're not even human to them, and you're treated accordingly.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2024
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Pros

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

Cons

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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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