Vantaggi
The mandate of the organization is amazing and a much needed niche in the current human rights climate. Many of my colleagues are wonderful ... those that are left, that is (see below).
Svantaggi
Where to start? A complete lack of expertise at the leadership level has lead to the organization hemorrhaging staff, in particular from the program side. And when I say a lack of expertise, I mean substantively (no one at the leadership level has human rights expertise), but also in terms of fundraising, management know-how, financial processes, and basic how-to-run a not-for-profit know-how. The place is running on fumes. If anyone were to start digging, they'd find unorthodox (unethical?) accounting, dangerously fluid budgets with enormous sums mysteriously disappearing mostly because of incompetence, opaque decision-making processes (or essentially top-down decision-making on the most minute details), a huge pay differential between leadership and those who actually do the work (we pay more for our executive director's monthly parking bill than junior staff are offered for a raise to bring them up to industry standard), and deep warranted mistrust and tension between various parts of the organization. Everyone is pretty much in a dysfunctional relationship with the ED, including the rest of the mangement team who seem to tip-toe around her whims and refuse to take responsibility for throwing junior staff under the bus to save their own skin. People are (unsurprisingly) leaving in droves. I can't wait to get out myself.