Excellent Experience With Passionate People - Intern Oxfam Employee Review

5.0
Mar 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

People who work at Oxfam America are smart very passionate about international development- they're also doing a lot of innovative work, especially on public-private partnerships. Got to work on a lot of great projects that really felt like they were not only having an impact, but changing the dialogue about what was possible in development. Office in Boston is wonderful.

Cons

None that I can think of. It's really a great organization. There's not a lot of turnover, which I think is a sign of how wonderful Oxfam is that it can retain people of such a high standard.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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