Pros
Lots of opportunities to try new skills and grow leadership abilities, if you fit the agency's profile. Job stability. Smart, collaborative, compassionate staff. Feels like family. Mid level mgmt has significantly improved and diversified in the past few years. Trying to place more sincere effort into local leadership. Plenty of $$$ for trying out new programming ideas-- this org has more flexible funding available for programming than most INGOs. Fair pay for US-based staff with excellent benefits, but a long way to go with equitable pay for non-US staff. Efforts made to address work/family balance during COVID.
Cons
Executive leadership aren't held accountable. Serious program quality issues as well as staff wellbeing are not being adequately addressed. DEI efforts are a sham. Executive leadership have poor communication and poor decision making that fails to align with prioritizing needs of most marginalized populations (per its Catholic mission) and loses the trust of staff. Career opportunities seem to be most easily accessible for those who are white and fit the "development worker" profile, and are unwilling to rock the boat. Not very progressive in how they manage people or resources.