Cool colleagues and work but incompetent management - Recensione dipendente - Research Manager presso IMPACT Initiatives

Depending on base, the work can be interesting. Quality of data/research varies, but is often well-presented. High career mobility (but varies, not based on skill/experience but on filling staffing gaps as they arise)

Chronically understaffed, often leading employees to work 70+ hours a week, at low wages. This is the standard, not the exception. -Very poor work-life balance, high rates of burnout. Poor benefits and living conditions. -HQ is out of touch, in every sense. They are not helpful when issues arise and expect the burntout staff in-country to handle everything by just working more and sacrificing their personal life and mental health. -You can request 'surge' support from HQ, but rarely will it happen. Even if your mission can afford the surge, they prioritise which missions they support based on how much money the mission brings to HQ and their political/financial interests. -They are primarily concerned with expanding their portfolio, not with implementing quality projects or filling information gaps. -Cult-like dedication required to the organisation and your complaints will be ignored or reframed to gaslight you. -High-skilled national staff rarely get opportunities to expatriate, however they pretend this is a goal of theirs. -HR/Finance units at HQ are understaffed and often don't even respond to your requests/questions. -They will lie shamelessly during recruitment process.

If you need a job, this is a job. Get six months of experience and then move on.

- They are primarily concerned with expanding their portfolio, not with implementing quality projects. - There is no clear system of promotion. Some people get fast-tracked to higher management within six months and others are left doing the work of a manager but denied the promotion. This exists across multiple countries and programs. - They severely understaff their projects so everyone is forced to work around the clock. - They pressure employees to skip their vacations and expect people to work through burn out. - One senior manager grossly mismanaged a project and made considerable effort to cover up and then blame others for the problems he created. The same manager regularly made veiled threats that people would be fired. - They are closely aligned with ACTED as well who are among the worst of the worst. - One colleague who had been working with the organization over a year in a complex, understaffed program requested a raise and was told they were "being greedy." The fish rots from the head and I highly suggest you avoid any long-term career plans involving this NGO.