Pros
- Helps a lot of people in the community - does great work! - Coworkers are passionate about their work and are committed to the work - being done. - Org has a lot of diversity in funding, so there is potential opportunity to expand services and be creative with new initiatives. - Benefits are pretty good for individual workers - gets spendy quickly if you have a family or partner. - A lot of the leadership is passionate and qualified with great vision for the future.
Cons
- There is nearly zero organizational procedures or processes in place - everything felt like a free-for-all, all the time. Very confusing. - Very little feedback or effort put into collaboration. Most decisions in my program were made unilaterally by leadership - not taking into account anything besides their personal opinion. I was a minion with skills that were constantly dismissed. - ED was a mystery and seemed disconnected from the mission of the org. - Whenever I asked for time off, I felt like I needed to justify the reason. Any flexibility in my daily schedule (like taking my kids to an appointment or needing to leave for parent-teacher conferences) needed to also include why the flexibility was beneficial to the org (??). Not as family-friendly as advertised in the interview. - Absolutely no interest in growing programs or exploring different ways to do things. Status quo is the way, here. - The org says they are committed to diversity and being trauma-informed, but the culture and practices showed otherwise. Racial and economical micro-aggressions happened often and DEI committee didn't seem well-supported.