Catarina Berglund
Senior protection assistant at UNHCR
Sheikh Zayed, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
Swedish Specialized Center for Special Needs
Case officer and educatorFull Time
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017 -1 yr, 4 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Case officer in the unit for returning asylum seekers. Tasks included conducting motivating personal meetings, administering travel documents and coordinating contact with various embassies for issuing the former. Also took decisions and informed individuals about these decisions in accordance with the Swedish law of asylum. By the end of my employment period, I was educating other nationwide units in the agency about digitalization under the umbrella of an EU-sponsored project for digitalizing the asylum process.
Administrative assistantFull Time
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016 -2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Short-term post with tasks including registering applications of asylum and taking photographs and fingerprints. Screening of various travel and identity documents belonging to asylum seekers.
Administrative officer och coordinatorFull Time
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019 -4 yrs
Sweden , Goeteborg
- Job Details:Analyzing and deciding on the right of claimants to hold social health insurance in light of illness in accordance with Swedish social insurance law. Thereafter, coordinating different national welfare agencies to get the individual back to work.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Social sciences
University of GothenburgJan 2013
Skills
Languages
English
FluentSwedish
FluentArabic
Intermediate