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      UNICEF reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (1,360 total reviews)
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      Catherine M. Russell

      68% approve of CEO

      56% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      UNICEF has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,360 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UNICEF employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Aug 20, 2016

      Process completed...no answer never

      Chief executive officer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      None, To be honest, i don´t remember any

      Cons

      1) they communicate all the steps with a day in advance...so, they seem in an urgency 2) When the process is concluded, they don´t comunicate anything I knew later they choose an interrim candidate and I was just used to make him compete

      3.0
      Jan 12, 2022

      Bureaucratic dysfunction, toxic workplace culture

      Human resources business partner
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Job security / benefits are excellent, and you can have good work-life balance in the UN system.

      Cons

      There are serious workplace culture issues at UNICEF that were identified by an independent task force in 2019 including abuse of authority, discrimination, etc. In the two years since, I have not seen serious efforts to address these issues. It also requires a certain personality and a lot of patience to function inside of a bureaucratic organization like UNICEF. In many ways, it is a dinosaur.

      2.0
      Apr 22, 2019

      Great mandate, management needs improvment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great unifying mandate - Vast field presence doing very interesting work - Opportunity to affect change on a large scale

      Cons

      - A great organisation resting on the laurels of its past performance and unifying mandate - Managers make decisions that lack of transparency and can be authoritarian - Lack of merit-based hiring practices and deeply entrenched systems of favoritism.

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