Save the Children Reviews

Pros

The staff was good to work with.

Cons

You only have 5 personal days to take off a year.

Pros

Dedicated, passionate colleagues. Inspiring programs to improve lives of children. Regularly asking - what can we do more for children? (Which means there are opportunities to adjust ways of working)

Cons

With such a large mandate and mission, there are often many initiatives and conflicting demands. At times it can feel like leaders have a hard time prioritizing, particularly noting the complexity and interdependencies across members, fundraising, and country offices.

Pros

- Mission driven - 100% job satisfaction - Plenty opportunities for career growth - Benefits include 3+ weeks annual leave, 2 weeks family leave, sick leave, fully paid maternity and paternity leave, flexibility to work from home.

Cons

I have worked for private companies before and I’ve seen so much cons there. Save the Children is an amazing agency, I can’t think of any Cons.

Pros

Good benefits, good pay, remote work available.

Cons

Heavy workload, your team may not be efficient or helpful, and the recent reorganization removed many devoted workers with little notice.

Pros

Like the non-hierarchal office spaces. (Leaders sit in open desks and cubicles.) Staff are pleasant and HR does a good job in trying to create a fun and friendly atmosphere.

Cons

Lack of training. They throw you into projects with no training and hope you float. Low salaries compared to other international development orgs. Highly under-resourced in terms of staff. Creates dysfunction, long hours and overworking (Compared to other NGOs). Work life balance is non-existent. CT office needs more diversity

Pros

When it comes to development and humanitarian organizations, few have the scope and scale of impact as Save. In every crisis, save is on the ground responding and has the capacity to mobilize resources quickly. Great place to learn and gain exposure to development and humanitarian programming

Cons

I have worked at a lot of NGOs and Save has a distinctly corporate feel. This may not bother some people but it irks me. All of the processes are very beauracratic which make day-to-day work really frustrating at times. While Save is a leader in the program development space, they do have a long way to go when it comes to promoting a healthy work life balance. For an organization that seeks to make life better for organizations around the world, vacation days are below par when compared to other NGOs and they are behind the curve when it comes to remote work flexibility. Hope they work on addressing these issues. People are overworked are it contributes to a tense feeling around the office environment