Avoid at All Costs - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso GLSEN

This is a horrible place to work. Their treatment of staff is despicable and the reason they have so many open positions is because they’ve pushed out staff, paid them off, or just flat out fired them. There is zero infrastructure which places all power with the executive leadership team and especially the executive director who is a bully, a narcissist, and will gaslight you. Policies mean nothing and don’t actually exist unless they benefit the executive leadership team. If you express any disagreement with the leadership team you’ll face retaliation in the most heinous of ways and will be pushed out if you don’t quit first. Nepotism runs rampant, with the executive leadership team hiring their friends and board members. It's likely that the positions in the research and education departments will likely remain open for a long time since none of the current staff with the exception of one person has actually worked in schools, research, or even understands the education system....something that isn't actually valued at a "national education organization". The real work needed in schools alongside students and educators is non-existent unless it’s done by chapters who are working on the ground in 40+states but don’t actually receive any support, financial or otherwise from the national office. In fact they have to pay the national office to even function! It’s atrocious! The executive leadership team recently gutted the entire Research Institute of all staff by using intimidation tactics. They have no Education Dept, for the same reasons, and most importantly their treatment of trans employees is deplorable, pushing them out or simply firing them because they dare question or disagree with the chief of culture & innovation or executive director. The organization's social media posts contradict what they actually do in practice and aside from signing on to the work of other organizations, agencies, and coalitions (by way of support letters and amicus briefs) fighting for our legal and human rights, no real work is happening on the part of organization in support of students, educators, and families across the country, much less in states that actively work to harm and erase us. If you decide to still apply and get an interview, ask them to demonstrate their impact. Ask them where are they elevating student voices beyond the National Student Council which is no longer front and center in the work to make schools safer and more inclusive. Where and how are they actually showing up or “rising up” (their words) for students? Where are they elevating educator voices, showing up for them, and providing them with any sort of valuable and CURRENT resources? Ask them, aside from the outrageous amount of money that goes to pay for the Executive Leadership Team's salaries, where do ALL the donations go!? Instead consider inviting them to donate all their resources to the people and organizations actually working tirelessly each day to create change… 30 years with little organizational transformation, minimal resources making impact in schools, and repeated harm to employees seems like enough reason to invite this organization to close their doors.