Other Opportunities

A UNHCR staff comforts a mother in Rasem Alharmal, a small village in rural Aleppo with a pre-crisis population of 1,500 people. Around 1,000 have returned since fighting ended in April 2017. Most found their houses destroyed and looted.

Other opportunities to join UNHCR are offered in the below categories:

General Service Staff
National Professional Officer and
Field Service Staff

General Service Staff and National Professional Officers are recruited locally and are required to be legally present in the country where the post they are applying for is situated. They do not have a requirement to rotate.

Field Service positions are considered international assignments and are generally located outside UNHCR’s headquarters, often in hardship and non-family duty stations.

National Professional Officers are nationals of the country in which they are to serve and must have substantial knowledge of local conditions. Their recruitment should enhance the national capacity building and contribute to the quality of the nation’s professional workforce. They are recruited locally and are not subject to assignment to any duty station outside of the home country.

Vacancies in this category are simultaneously advertised internally and externally within the country of the duty station where the vacancy exists. Vacancy notices are to be shared with all UNHCR staff in the country. They also have to be issued in the local press, posted on national employment websites, and with all UN agencies, local missions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country. Contact one of the country offices to learn more about current opportunities. Browse the UNHCR country pages.

Please note that National Professional Officer vacancies in Budapest, Lebanon, Turkey will also be advertised externally among our international vacancies.To explore the latest externally advertised local vacancies, go to: Vacancies

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