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3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(180 total reviews)
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Maqsoda Maqsodi

65% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Winrock International has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 180 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Winrock International 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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180 reviews
2.0
May 4, 2020

Negative

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Commendable program areas in environment, WASH, and agriculture that can create long term change and sustainability - Flat organization so team members can get to know their executive department heads very well

Cons

- Zero diversity! Most unit heads are white women who are so destined to "make a difference" they don't care who they steamroll for acknowledgement. As someone who identifies as female, I did not find the amount of women in leadership to be beneficial. Their white privilege leaves them unable to sympathize or recognize anyone who is not like them. This is particularly true in the civil society group where passive aggressiveness and unrealistic expectations, without any support function as the group leadership norm - The costing structure eliminates division of labor so there is absolutely no work life balance. That coupled with the fact that the systems are 20 years behind makes the work 100 times more difficult to accomplish.

2.0
Nov 17, 2015

Template hell

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A consistent set of templates has been made available to help manage projects. One on one training at the outset proved helpful.

Cons

Unfortunately Programs staff is just being directed to fill out templates, then these are double checked by Operations staff and errors documented. No one is with us from Operations to help work through project or proposal challenges and problems when they are occurring. Instead they are not accessible and say to use the templates. They even get reprimanded for helping. This makes Programs staff job really hard and increases working hours a lot. We are all try to figure out all of these Operations things without having qualified staff from Operations to help out. All operations does is check on templates that Programs staff have filled, so why do we need actual people there, just have computers instead.

1.0
Sep 6, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Most staff really want to work together across the Programs-Operations divide, and generally they understand how important collaboration so that projects and proposals can be successful

Cons

Certain members of senior management is actively discouraging cooperation. Staff have been reprimanded severely for helping people on ‘the other side’. This is sad, and really makes it hard for Programs to do their work. It also makes projects more risky for the organization.

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