Pros
- Good pay for senior staff - Lots of holiday time due to being part of the university - Smart technical and programmatic people
Cons
- THE NAME. No one can pronounce it. The logo is equally baffling. - THE SYSTEMS. Need a contract signed? A travel expense reimbursed? It will take 6 months of your life or maybe even a year - Every 6 months they restructure - Toxic, bitter, back-stabbing, punitive work environment - CEO is glaringly American in a way that puts off anyone from overseas. Arrogant, disconnected from staff, disconnected from the cutting edge landscape of global health. - Leadership Team is isolated from the workers. They make decisions literally in a separate tower from the rest of the organization. Sometimes they are communicated to staff, most often they are not. - Management tolerates abusive behavior by senior staff. Some Directors are cruel, arrogant, steal credit for their teams' work - Org way overspent and overhired in the boom years and now it's busting. There have already been 2 rounds of massive layoffs in 2019 and another is coming. The org lost almost all of its technical and programmatic talent. - Jhpiego's administrative departments are in complete shambles. Finance was so bad the entire department was fired. Contracts people take naps in their offices. HR regularly lies to staff and will never put anything down on paper to avoid committing to anything. I strongly suspect they also write false, positive Glassdoor reviews to boost Jhpiego's reputation. - While the office is in a beautiful location right on the water, the building itself is freezing cold, dark, decaying and molding. Senior staff have cushy offices while everyone else, even those working 3 decades, sit in dark, open cubicles where everything can be heard. The conference room is a dark ice box built for 100 capacity but every month we cram into it for the staff meeting of 350 or so people - No upwards mobility for junior staff