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      4.0

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (1,028 total reviews)
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      Andrew Morley

      94% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      World Vision International has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,028 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The World Vision International 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).

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      2.0
      Nov 7, 2014

      World Vision is a complex Christian subculture. You will love some parts of it and be frustrated by other parts of it.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      You meet some great people and can make some good friends outside of your team. People who leave World Vision miss the people. The organization is becoming more supportive about alternative work schedules, but it still has a long way to go. You can be open about your Christian faith. If you have a job where you get opportunities to travel to the field, you may enjoy your employment more.

      Cons

      World Vision is confused about its identity; is it a business or a ministry? It tries to be both, and the employer sends confusing and often conflicting messages about employee expectations and behavior to employees. Conflict generally is not dealt with in an open and constructive manner. Passive aggressiveness is practiced by many within World Vision as a highly reformed art. Some employees, including some leadership, can have an unhealthy sense of pride that they are doing God's work because they work at World Vision. The organization restructures its workforce too often. It can be difficult to get things done and is bureaucratic. The HR Department is not respected by most individuals.

      4.0
      Aug 5, 2008

      Great staff + Poor management. = mediocre impact.

      Program officer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Program staff are competent and highly committed. The benefits are relatively good (vacation, health, etc...) and there's a good work life balance. Staff are treated with respect and allowed a relative amount of freedom to work as they see fit (choose their own hours, work at home upon occassion). Mid-level managers are generally people with field (international) experience and understand how to get things done overseas. Program people are organized into teams (private funding, public funding, food grants, emergencies, etc..) which generally function well with a good sense of teamwork. Opportunities for training are numerous as well as support for outside education.

      Cons

      The organization has a very flat structure which provides little room for advancement. Most of the staff are program or finance with extensive international experience, who are organized into teams led by a team leader. Team leaders basically feed information to senior management and do very little actual management. Senior management is mostly busy counting beans and trying to keep the marketing/development people happy as they carry the most weight in the overall organization. WV is a very bureaucratic organization and makes decisions very slowly. Senior management rarely listens to program staff which leads them to make poor decisions concerning the organization and management of the office.

      1.0
      Dec 13, 2016

      Exceptional Goal, Unqualified directors

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Amazing mission. upper management (CEO, VP level) are people that inspire you with their work and experience. Brilliance that makes you want to follow their lead

      Cons

      Heavy Director level staffing, unqualified and negatively impact the cost of doing the work (they are expensive, their errors are time consuming, and their poor leader ship causes turnover of good people)

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      World Vision International Response
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      We do invest in exit interviews in an effort to identify opportunities for continuously improving our workplace to be a great place to work to do the work we do. Most recently we have embarked on a purposeful organization health plan to simplify work, equip our managers even moreso and strengthen career support for staff. Living out our core Christian values is at the center. We're committed to continuous improvement so keep in touch at worldvision.org.
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