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 16 reviews)); "amazing and smart colleagues" ((in 13 reviews)); "Great working environment" ((in 7 reviews)); "Managers understand and give time for problem" ((in 5 reviews)); "A great opportunity to do work that you can be proud of." ((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 25 reviews)); "Management is poor and disorganized" ((in 16 reviews)); "Long hours; Lots of travels to the field;" ((in 10 reviews)); "Compensation is very low." ((in 8 reviews)); "There is a high turnover rate, compensation low, and an expectation of extended work hours." ((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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Ratings trend for the last 6 months (245 reviews)

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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

2.0

Apr 23, 2018

You can learn a lot, but you're thrown in the field alone and it's very disorganized

Research associate

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Pros

It's autonomous, so you can teach your self a lot.

Cons

No organizational structure, no proper system, very disorganized.

3.0

Apr 18, 2018

Profound experience as Field RA in spite of org's shortcomings

Anonymous employee

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Pros

I oversaw far more than I was qualified for, which has its benefits and drawbacks. I was HR manager, finance manager, operations manager, IT manager, econometrician. You learn a lot about yourself and management, although surprisingly little about economics or statistics. Good for snowflake millennials: enables you to toughen up and experiment with things. After all, if the project explodes it's just silly academic preoccupations and tenure timelines damaged, nothing serious. It's a playground with padded floor. I am still not sure if this job is prestigious - people come to IPA from prestigious places, but I'm not sure if they go ON to prestigious places after IPA. IPA seems to often end people's PhD aspirations, which is almost certainly a benefit to them.

Cons

If things are going okish, management is mostly nonexistent, and only pop their heads in to offer an occasional passive criticism. If things are going bad, I assume then life is suffering. High risk: the project could explode through no fault (or complete fault) of your own, and the blame will land on you. You could get unlucky and end up with sociopathic PIs, who are fickle demigods capable of casting down lightening bolts on your dreams and on the project. Avoid abduction by gorillas or guerrillas. Pay sucks, hours are long, and promotions within org are rare. Endless diarrhea can get tiresome. I doubt we actually achieve much more than good intentions.

2.0

Apr 17, 2018

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Anonymous employee

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Hardworking team and good learning environment

Cons

Low salaries for local staff

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