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      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (1,364 total reviews)
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      Catherine M. Russell

      70% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      UNICEF has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,364 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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      4.0
      Jul 16, 2014

      Positive, interesting, and great experience.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Very multi-cultural work setting and ability to work with people with interesting and varied backgrounds.

      Cons

      A very hierarchical structure depending on where you work. Working in a country office can allow for more flexibility and responsibility, but working in the HQ or regional offices is more rigid and less flexible.

      2.0
      Jan 27, 2014

      Its like working in a Bureaucracy built on 1950's British policy

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The mandate. Passion by some of the staff.

      Cons

      Lack of leadership at line level. The amount of deadwood awaiting their pension. Lack of trust. Policing by anyone in an operational capacity. The inability to create change quickly.

      2.0
      Jul 17, 2013

      Politics and inefficiency

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Higher than market average pay rate, additional perks if you are recruited as international professional. Used to be job security, but Unicef is currently shaken by series of workforce transformation initiatives, which in plain words means offshoring, outsourcing and job cuts.

      Cons

      Bureaucratic, inefficient and very slow. No resilience, and change is being opposed, rather than embraced in many cases. No real performance enforcement, so people who haven't been working for years are plentiful, and no one knows how to get rid of them. The interoffice politics are abundant and often used as coverups for non compliance. No clear vision, thus many operate purely on transactional level.

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