AssociateEconomist

**Deadline for Applications** June 20, 2026 **Grade** NOB **Staff Member / Affiliate Type** National Professional Officer **Reason** Temporary > Temporary Assignment/ Appointment **Hardship Level** B **Family Type** Family **Residential location (if applicable)** **Target Start Date** 2026-07-01 **Target End Date** 2026-12-31 **Standard Job Description** Associate Economist Organizational Setting and Work Relationships Framed by the Global Compact for Refugees (GCR) and UNHCR's mission to find solutions to refugee situations, strengthened cooperation with development and private sector partners is essential. The increasing number of refugees and internally displaced persons in protracted displacement situations, together with the increasing scale of irregular migration, large-scale refugee movements, and costs of responding to humanitarian situations, have placed forced displacement high on the global agenda. These elements have further driven the realization that humanitarian support must be complemented by development and private sector actors to lift displaced populations out of poverty, enable solutions, and encourage an area based approach to poverty reduction. Within UNHCR, the Division of Resilience and Solutions (DRS) was formed to address these challenges, in part by broadening strategic partnerships with key actors in these areas, including importantly the World Bank and other multilateral development banks and in so doing aligning approaches by Government. To support investments by development actors in area based approaches including both forcibly displaced and their hosts, requires better data and standardized information about refugees and host community households, particularly in relation to their socio-economic status or multidimensional poverty status. Accurate data on welfare conditions is also needed for UNHCR and partner operations, including cash, livelihoods, and education programming, welfare targeting and monitoring of the Sustainable Develo