International humanitarian organizations heavily rely on local staff’s labor and expertise to implement aid programs in the Global South. Local staff who come from refugee and immigrant backgrounds are of particular value to these organizations’ everyday operations due to their exhaustive knowledge of local norms, languages, networks as well as their insider positionality among displaced communities. Despite this broad array of professional qualifications, local-refugee staff are rarely seen in leadership and decision-making positions. Instead, they are mostly employed to facilitate on-ground tasks and duties without sufficient opportunities to advance their careers. Such limited organizational mobility prevents local-refugee staff from making substantial contributions to humanitarian projects and influencing broader humanitarian agendas of their organizations. This article examines experiences of Syrian forced migrants who have been working as humanitarian aid professionals in Southeast Turkey to uncover challenges they encounter as local-refugee staff within the hierarchies among humanitarian professionals based on intersecting identities of ethnicity, gender, nationality/immigration, and class. Drawing on two years of fieldwork and life-history interviews with Syrian aid workers, I argue that the existing hierarchies undermine local-refugee staffs’ expertise and personal displacement histories as refugees and forced migrants. Most of the Syrian aid workers share the traumatic experiences of war and displacement with communities they try to provide aid and services. Their social, cultural, and emotional proximity to benefactor communities make their professional goals and motivations strikingly different from other local and expatriate professionals. Nevertheless, by being situated at the margins of the humanitarian sector, they encounter organizational resistance and gatekeeping whenever they attempt to intervene in substantive issues regarding humanitarian projects. By focusing on experiences of Syrian aid workers, this article illuminates the ways in which hierarchies within the humanitarian sector persist and reproduce neo-colonial relationships within the aid sector.