NESTORY BEGASHA
JÖNKÖPING
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant
International Organization for Migration- IOM-UN
Kampala, Uganda
11.2025 - 11.2025
- Provide essential pre – departure information to quota refugees selected for resettlement in Sweden. The refugees originating mostly from Congo and Burundi – They received guidance and information in Swahili intended to reduce culture shock and help them adapt quickly and successful in Swedish society.
Consultant
International Organization for Migration - IOM – UN
Kigoma, Tanzania
08.2025 - 08.2025
- Provide essential pre-departure information to quota refugees selected for resettlement in Sweden. The refugees -originating mostly from Congo and Burundi. They received guidance and information in Swahili intended to reduce culture shock and help them adapt quickly and successful in Swedish society.
Assistant Caregiver - Summer Work
Jönköping Municipality
Jönköping, Sweden
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Provide needed assistance to individuals who were mentally ill. My job included providing medication and offering support whenever needed.
Warehouse worker
Post Nord and Thunderful
Jönköping, Sweden
05.2024 - 04.2025
- Unloading and loading boxes onto either PostNord or Thunderful trucks. Other tasks included scanning packages of different sizes and making sure they were directed to the right gate and ready to be loaded.
Consultant
Swedish Public Employment Agency
Stockholm, Sweden
01.2023 - 02.2023
- Provide information, guidance and recruitment service to both job seekers and employers interested in Swedish labor market
Correctional Officer
Swedish Detention Facility
Jönköping, Sweden
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Provide care, correctional treatment and prepare the inmates for reintegration into society
- Perform other related duties as required.
Parental Leave
I Was on Parental Leave for Few Months, and It Allowed Me to Spend Valuable Time With My Daughter
08.2021 - 04.2022
Case Officer
Swedish Migration Agency
Jönköping, Sweden
05.2015 - 07.2021
- Issue travel documents to refugees, as per Swedish Migration Agency guidelines and under 1951 Geneva Convention and 1954 New York Convention relating to status of stateless people
- Conduct interviews with applicants to assess credibility to their application/s.
- Manage Swedish migration electronic management system backlog.
- Process sensitive and confidential material, per Swedish migration Agency guidelines.
- Maintain the integrity and physical order of active and archived records such as creating a systematic manner of arranging them.
- Administrative tasks - (Registration, processing application fees from applicants, record-keeping /bookkeeping, and user support via incoming e-mails.)
- Clerical tasks including but not limited to taking biometrics – fingerprints and photos of asylum seekers and refugees who have been granted right to stay in Sweden.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Case Officer
Uppsala Municipality
Uppsala, Sweden
05.2013 - 08.2014
- Review of welfare benefits application
- Assess needs for services of people of concern (job seekers) to determine eligibility for state grants.
- Provide advisory/guidelines to unemployed individuals on how to access government programs and other forms of assistance.
- Using special software, calculate the amount each applicant or family is entitled to have – housing benefits, daily/monthly allowances etc.
- Perform other related tasks.
Warehouse
Arla foods
Jönköping, Sweden
01.2009 - 01.2009
- Processing and packing milk products.
- Ensuring orders are placed in the right category for pick up according to schedule
- Perform other related duties.
Security officer
PGL
United Kingdom
06.2004 - 08.2004
- Securing PGL premises and personnel by staying on patrol.
- Building and fire extinguishers inspection.
- Perform other related duties.
Counselor and Support Staff
United States of America
United States of America
06.1997 - 08.1997
- CCUSA (Camp Counselor United States of America) – is a United States Government designated exchange visitor program which brings young people from overseas to the United States for four months program in the American summer camps. As a counselor and support staff, I gained educational and cultural experience and promoted the general interest of international exchange.
Education
Master of Social Science - International Development Studies
Uppsala University
01.2012
Bachelor of Social Science - Peace and Conflict Studies
Malmö University
01.2009
Skills
- English - Fluent
- Swedish - Fluent
- Swahili - Native Speaker
- Microsoft Office
References
Available upon request.
Timeline
Consultant
International Organization for Migration- IOM-UN
11.2025 - 11.2025
Consultant
International Organization for Migration - IOM – UN
08.2025 - 08.2025
Assistant Caregiver - Summer Work
Jönköping Municipality
05.2025 - 08.2025
Warehouse worker
Post Nord and Thunderful
05.2024 - 04.2025
Consultant
Swedish Public Employment Agency
01.2023 - 02.2023
Correctional Officer
Swedish Detention Facility
05.2022 - 12.2022
Parental Leave
I Was on Parental Leave for Few Months, and It Allowed Me to Spend Valuable Time With My Daughter
08.2021 - 04.2022
Case Officer
Swedish Migration Agency
05.2015 - 07.2021
Case Officer
Uppsala Municipality
05.2013 - 08.2014
Warehouse
Arla foods
01.2009 - 01.2009
Security officer
PGL
06.2004 - 08.2004
Counselor and Support Staff
United States of America
06.1997 - 08.1997
Bachelor of Social Science - Peace and Conflict Studies
Malmö University
Master of Social Science - International Development Studies
Uppsala University
Internships/ Scholarships
- Scholarship, funded by Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency, SIDA “The Convergence and Conflict between Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Military Operations. Aug 2011- Aug 2011 Pretoria, South Africa.
- Scholarship, funded by SIDA 2011 Minor Field Studies – 3 months, financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. Arusha, Tanzania.
- Internship – Orgut Consulting Firm- October 2010 – March 2011 Microfinance project. Arusha, Tanzania.