Vantaggi
Great benefits (especially fully-paid health insurance!), coworkers are caring and mission-driven, office is nice and remote work is encouraged on days when not traveling. CEO and senior leadership is open to feedback and discussion and supportive of lower-level staff.
Svantaggi
Was not told I would have to be able to be on my feet all day and lift heavy objects - as someone with chronic pain, this was difficult. This has since been added to job description. Pay is low and not very open to negotiation, uniforms are free but uncomfortable, you will have difficult and infrequent bathroom access (and no access to running water) during school visits. Organization also claims to promote gender and racial equity in STEM while having only one Black employee and consistently misgendering trans staff. You will also be asked to travel to states including Texas and Louisiana - for these two reasons, this job is not recommended for trans folks. LU's main funding sources are DoD, defense contractors, and pharmaceutical companies, so prepare to lecture kids on how great it would be to build missiles and work in big pharma. Overall, the organization's funding sources and structure mean that passionate young science educators are forced to endure difficult working conditions to essentially propagandize under-resourced kids, and are unable to make much positive impact in the 45 minutes they have with each class of 25+ students.