Senior Resettlement Assistant
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months
Coordinating with the various European, American, Canadian and Australian embassies,
among others, to ensure the safe and smooth departure of refugees of all nationalities to
the resettlement countries
- Coordinating with the Lebanese General Security Office regarding formalities required and
determining best course of action for country exit procedures.
- Sending on-time data to the Lebanese General Security Office to facilitate movement of
refugees
- Instructing refugees on procedures to ensure their safe departure out of the country and
liaising with the Legal partners to prevent deportation of some refugees
- Liaising with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) among other UNHCR
partners (Caritas, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Danish Refugee
Council…) to organize and prepare the departure of the refugees.
- Contributing to the successful resettlement of 6, 366 refugees in 2015.
- Identifying cases with specific needs for resettlement cases
- Working as a national focal point for receiving a large amount of internal and external
referrals of Syrian cases to be processed for resettlement
- Studying and assessing refugee files for prioritization for resettlement
- Ensuring that the information provided at registration level is accurate and complete
- Drafting a Case referral form, endorsed by the team leader and referring the case to the
Regional Office
- Maintaining up-to-date results and ensuring that events are correctly updated by
caseworkers on the UN system
- Sending weekly lists of cases in a timely manner to caseworkers for preliminary telephonic
assessments
- Ensuring completion of pre-screening cases on the UN system and after telephonic
assessments
- Responding to queries from resettlement colleagues and being involved in other support
tasks where required
- Providing support in the retroactive updates of the UN system since January 2013
- Maintaining accurate resettlement statistics as well as up-to-date records on individual
cases; assisting in the preparation of reports
July 2013 - January 2014 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Jnah,
Lebanon)
* Live interpreter
- Interpreting for international caseworkers during interviews with refugees and assessing
their claims in the purpose of giving them a possible chance to have a better life in a third
country;
- Identifying cases for the temporary European resettlement programs interviews.
- Pre-screening cases on the system and by phone.
- Finalizing the German temporary resettlement with Supervisor.
- Scheduling appointments for refugees and logging them into the scheduler.
- Working on Laisser-Passer requests to be sent to the General Security Offices and
departures.
- Counseling refugees on different matters.
- Following-up on interviewed cases for further information related to the files.
, copywriter, editor, and proofreader
* Translator of speeches and different documents for former Lebanese Prime Minister- Mr.
Fouad Siniora
* Copywriter of flyers for Movenpick Hotel- Beirut
* Copywriter and translator for Sky High Advertising, Dubai
* Translator for Ecole Pigier
* Translator for El Ariss Computer Company
* Translator for Hammud Law Firm
Headquarters- Verdun,
Lebanon)
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Live interpreter (2010) with the American
courses: Modern Languages and Translation) (Licence en Langues Vivantes- Mention Traduction)