Pros
Meaningful work
Good for network for people who want to work in multilateral and non-profit agencies
Cons
1. Corruption and toxic culture- promotion is determined by how well you are liked by management not how well you do. To the opposite, if you do too well, manager will feel threatened and try to get you out because there is no accountability to managers. The grants they manage were given to "friends and family" orgs and not by the quality of the application. Everything is about "relationships" and "being liked by CEO and your manager" and it is utterly a corrupted organization that abuse the power and donation they receive to give to people they like.
2. Top leadership blindly trust the wrong people- there is no oversight or accountability to managers. If you have a good manager, lucky you, but if you are assigned a bad manager, it is hell. My manager treated me like crap, insulted me during 1 1, attacked my personality, took all credits, and used politics to ruin my reputation even years after I left. She repeatedly spread rumors and false accusations about me and tried to stop people at CPI from staying in touch with me. She did that to multiple people we worked with and yet she is still there. This speaks to the lack of management of reality from top leaders and CEO blindly place trust on the wrong person without investing time to truly understand the problems.
- No upward trajectory. You stuck there doing work that can be done pretty much by AI and become "one of them" and "yes" man to CEO and that's how you stay,