Does Innovations for Poverty Action pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Innovations for Poverty Action employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Innovations for Poverty Action. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Innovations for Poverty Action?

58% of Innovations for Poverty Action employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Innovations for Poverty Action 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Innovations for Poverty Action?

Research Associate (45) , Field Officer (26) , Research Manager (15) , Research Analyst (12) , Senior Research Associate (9) , Intern (8) , Research Assistant (8) , Field Manager (7) , Project Associate (7) , Manager (6) , Researcher (6) , Associate Research Manager (5) , Project Coordinator (5) , Senior Field Officer (5) , Associate Director (4)

What are the pros of working at Innovations for Poverty Action according to real employee reviews?

"Great group of young, smart, people." ((in 15 reviews)); "I had cool colleagues who were ready to induct me into the company and lively team members who made me feel apart of the Family." ((in 10 reviews)); "A great opportunity to do work that you can be proud of." ((in 7 reviews)); "Managers understand and give time for problem" ((in 6 reviews)); "Excellent benefits." ((in 5 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Innovations for Poverty Action according to real employee reviews?

"Salaries are low and the ranges between staff who do the same amount of work can be absurd." ((in 27 reviews)); "Management is poor and disorganized" ((in 18 reviews)); "Long hours; Lots of travels to the field;" ((in 11 reviews)); "Compensation is very low." ((in 9 reviews)); "Very short contracts which results to No job security" ((in 5 reviews))

Innovations for Poverty Action reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(245 total reviews)

Annie Duflo

70% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

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Innovations for Poverty Action has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 245 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Innovations for Poverty Action employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

245 reviews

4.0

Mar 11, 2020

Trial by fire

Research associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

tremendous responsibility, opportunity to live and work abroad

Cons

Little to no support, mentorship, or resources. Primary Investigators resent IPA charging overheads. Major disconnect between IPA HQ and field office realities

3.0

Feb 25, 2020

IPA is not necesarily for everyone.

Research associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You learn a lot about data collection for RCTs and, if lucky, you have the opportunity to work for interesting project implementers. Learning curve is challenging as you must learn a lot in a quite small amounts of time. Working there gives you a strong CV if you want to focua

Cons

Not a lot of work/life balance as you may arrive to poorly managed proyect. Not a good place for practicioners as IPA mostly emphasizes in data collection and quality (as a surveys company) and you have low engagement in implementation. Really narrow opportunities to grow after you are RA due to limited positions. Qualitative research is really weak in IPA considering that most of its employees are economists.

4.0

Feb 19, 2020

Working in Research Industry in Rwanda

Research associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Responsible to the project during field work

Cons

Horizontal Management, overtime without compensation

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