Best in Class Organization - Director UNHCR Employee Review

5.0
Apr 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Mission driven organization filled with employees who are extremely passionate about contributing to the vision of having a world without refugees. Very thoughtful leadership team that focuses on transformative and sustainable change. Clear internal strategy that is being executed very efficiently. Awesome company culture with a healthy work/life balance. Best in class benefits that include great medical/dental/vision conversation. Very generous leave policies that include 3-5 weeks of vacation, 13 paid holidays, 1 week of paid volunteer leave, and 1 month of paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of service...and much much more.

Cons

There are no cons for me at this time.

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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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