Pros
Serving the victim, Payment twice a month, Offers dental, medical, and vision insurance. Vacation time, Sick pay.
Cons
This company is very new to the victim advocacy program and have made little effort in learning how to properly manage this program. From my experience, it is more about having someone there to get paid for the contract than it is about performing the job. You have to argue to get training provided, with the threat that you may have to use vacation time to attend mandatory training. The home office is more interested in micro-managing the employees than it is on assuring quality work. There is a frequent power struggle with people in Virginia and government employees who are on the scene. It is not uncommon to have a supervisor who you might never meet and who works from home. It is very lacking when it comes to any professional standard and is deficient in quality leadership. The home office needs to learn to work with their field employees instead of worrying about petty disturbances. They want prior approval for any interaction the filed employee is involved in, but are not easily reached when they are 100's to 1000's of mile away. If you research this company you will find they hold many different contracts, from Diesel Mechanic, to Programmer to Victim Advocate. It does not specialize in actually meeting clients needs, but instead on winning contracts for a variety of jobs in which they may not have any previous experience