Mission and objectives

Our primary purpose at UNHCR is to safeguard the rights and well-being of people who have been forced to flee. Together with partners and communities, we work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another country. We also strive to secure lasting solutions. For over half a century, UNHCR has helped millions of people to restart their lives. They include refugees, returnees, stateless people, the internally displaced and asylum-seekers. Our protection, shelter, health and education has been crucial, healing broken pasts and building brighter futures. Mission and objectives UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. In Central Europe, UNHCR works to ensure that asylum seekers have access to territory, fair and efficient asylum procedures and decent reception conditions. UNHCR also promotes the effective integration of recognized refugees into host societies or their resettlement when it is not possible for them to remain in the country that granted them refugee status. In line with its mandate, the UN Refugee Agency also plays an active role in assessing the statelessness situation in the region and the protection of stateless persons.

Context

Since the outbreak of the international conflict in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, UNHCR has scaled up its operation in Romania. By the end of December 2025, Romania has recorded over 200,000 individuals who were granted Temporary Protection and over 25,000 asylum applications. To support and inform the response to the emerging needs of the refugees, UNHCR has relied on evidence, thus enhancing its data and information management activities. Information management plays a central role in shaping evidence-based refugee narratives, countering misinformation and negative discourse regarding refugees in the country, and supporting data-driven advocacy, fundraising, and strategic decision-making. Moreover, information management enables sustained engagement with think tanks and academic institutions to advance the statistical inclusion of refugees, strengthen the production and use of data on forcibly displaced populations, and stimulates academic research and policy-relevant debate on forced displacement.

Task Description

The Information Management (IM) team aims to standardise lectures, training modules, and academic interventions, in order to strengthen data literacy, promote applied research, and anchor knowledge production on forced displacement within national contexts. We are looking for an online volunteer who, in close collaboration with the IM team, will provide graphic design support for UNHCR materials developed for the wider public. The Online Volunteer is expected to create visually compelling PowerPoint Presentations and fact sheets tailored to the targeted audiences, and in line with the UNHCR’s brand guidelines.

Competencies and values

Living conditions and remarks