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Walk the Talk - Director Human Rights First Employee Review

2.0
Dec 10, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Refugee work has changed lives.

Cons

Stuck in an ivory tower on the policy side and don't seem to get the connection from abstract human rights principles and human beings. There is an over-emphasis on the quest for the perfect policy brief that few people will read. And yet the staff feel consistently under-valued and mistreated.

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Pros

Work hard to help immigrants and other marginalized groups

Cons

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1.0
Mar 7, 2026
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Pros

The work helps people especially non-citizens

Cons

Absolutely atrocious senior management. They don’t seem to care that staff are working every single Saturday and Sunday and constantly staying late or logging on early just to keep up. Meanwhile, senior leadership gets holiday breaks and takes vacations while the rest of us can’t realistically use time off because the workload is so overwhelming. When they fire employees, they just expect everyone else to absorb the cases with no support. They keep talking about funding cuts, yet senior leadership is making $200k+ salaries and they even created another senior leadership position. It’s a horrible place to work. People should seriously consider other organizations instead.

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