NICHQ Reviews
Updated Jul 12, 2021
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- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Regular staff here are highly experienced, educated, capable, and collegial.
Cons
Management was a huge problem.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great CEO and HR
Cons
Lack of Diversity and support for HR and Admin staff
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Working to support/fulfill a deeply compelling mission across many areas of children’s health and healthcare. The organization attracts very smart and passionate people with deep content and other expertise. Including employees, board members, and other collaborators. They bring so much to their work and helping kids and families. I learned a great deal. It’s wonderful that many bright people build great knowledge and skills at NICHQ for a few years and launch into other awesome work in nonprofits, government and other places to continue to help kids and families in health and beyond.
Cons
Small/medium nonprofits (all that I’ve worked at) are challenged to build and maintain a diverse funding base. It is not unique to NICHQ and not unexpected given the type of work and being in midst of a robust non-profit sector. Growth in funding diversity improved recently at NICHQ and bodes well for the future. It can be hard in such sized organizations to create enough capacity for day to day work and bigger vision work. Building a team based on needs and strengths goes a long way and was also improving at NICHQ and bodes well for the future.
Continue readingThank you for sharing your experience working at NICHQ. I am so happy to hear it was positive and we truly appreciate the constructive feedback you provided for management. As you know, NICHQ is a fast-growing organization, and we value all our employees’ input, work, and passion. We are glad we had the opportunity to work with you and wish you well with your career. Best regards, Scott Berns President and CEO
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
At NICHQ, you will have the opportunity to do your part to improve health outcomes for children through systems change nationwide. The people at NICHQ typically embody the mission of the organization – they work hard in their capacity to improve health outcomes for children through systems change. Whatever your future position there may be, you will probably learn a lot about systems change and our nation’s health system by doing the work. It’s actually really interesting. Whether you’re a newcomer or a mid-career professional, I highly recommend this organization as a good career move.
Cons
None that I encountered, however, the subject matter can be emotionally challenging to discover how many children and families slip through the gaps in our local, regional and federal health systems. The bright side of this is knowing that the work you do *will* help fill those gaps by improving the health systems responsible for ensuring that children can develop and grow healthy and strong.
- Former Contractor, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
I can’t think of one Pro comment to share.
Cons
The CEO and COO were the rudest and manipulative people I have ever worked for. Both were out right rude and only perceived to be driven to what the organization worked for when they entertained prospective donors. I had to papers tossed at me, glared looks, rolled eyes at me, both COO and CEO asked for me to schedule time with them and then never were at the meeting, canceled last minute or just said they were too busy. How can anyone do a good job with no guidance?
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Passionate individuals, management that cares, growth opportunities, good values, agility in difficult environment, community, results, mission focused, progressive and collaborative.
Cons
Young workforce is not always aware of business best practices so too much effort spent trying to be transparent and responsive, can be too positive so disagreements aren't always in the open, too much flexibility can be detrimental to overall feeling of fairness
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Wonderful, passionate, smart workforce. Truly good people.
Cons
Disconnect between executive team and the rest of the workforce. See below.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Current changing direction and focus of company brings both great potential and risks for its future.
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Passionate coworkers that believe in the company's mission and values. Great people, tremendous talent, a wealth of opportunities abound if you're proactive in pursuing them. The creativity, talent, and passion of the people here are worth working there. Decent compensation considering it's a nonprofit.
Cons
A lot of typical grant-based nonprofit issues: stable funding struggles, turnover, communication. Frequent changes in organization over the past few years have led to much uncertainty around its direction and stability. Issues with communication and empowering employees, though leadership is trying to address these. Company hasn't dealt with turnover very well
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
The Mission is critical to optimal health for children
Cons
Work-life balance is challenging as this is a small non-profit
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
great learning environment for starting out in public health
Cons
low pay even for a non-profit
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