Wonderful colleagues and inspiring work, but terribly bureaucratic, set in its ways and upper managers appreciate staff
Pros
- Best colleagues and line managers I have ever worked with: smart, kind, astoundingly great at their jobs - The chance to work on inspiring and important human rights issues - Massively educational to work here, because you learn so much about politics, human rights, global problems, etc - Respected brand name
Cons
- Low pay - Little opportunity for career progression - Very bureaucratic (alot of paper pushing) - Little room for new ideas (rigid campaigns and organization-wide ways of working) - Top managers very different to assistants, officers, coordinators, and most line managers... don't have enough respect for the lower workers. Alot of HR problems and pay disputes in various sections - Job titles don't reflect level of responsibility, workers often need to cover more than one job - Alot of time spent pandering to the International Secretariat - Tendency towards quantity rather than quality