UNICEF reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,361 total reviews)
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Catherine M. Russell

68% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

UNICEF has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,361 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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3.0
Jul 26, 2013

mission need to be reinvented

Anonymous employee
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Pros

renown internationally UN specialized in child protection, comfortable status for employees, good opening and international network, possibility to find jobs at international level, mobility

Cons

bureaucratic in the sense of very individualized type of bureaucracy, allowing abuses of power. Fragility of staff assessment: both positive and negative attitudes of the staff may be treated easily in an unfair manner.

2.0
Jul 17, 2013

Politics and inefficiency

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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