United Nations Foundation Reviews

Pros

The people are professional, creative and hard working

Cons

Diverse delivery makes for silos between teams

Pros

- decent benefits - work-life balance - a lot of exposure to the UN and other international systems

Cons

- the pay for lower level staff is abysmal - your manager can be completely horrible and no one will do anything about it - there is clear favoritism in who gets promotions - upper management needs to reconnect with the mission of the organization - leadership should actually lead and not let lower-level staff do everything

Pros

Beautiful workplace, smart colleagues, great on resume

Cons

There is little room for growth. The employees are often looked over for promotions, which, coupled with busy work schedules and little work life balance is often why people leave. You give, give, and give for a job that doesn’t give back to you. The managers I had were very much micromanagers. I could barely send an email without having it reviewed first by them. I had no room for creativity in my role, it was all very claustrophobic in terms of being heavily managed.

Pros

Good pay, great connections, beautiful office, energetic colleagues

Cons

Leadership is not loyal to staff but expects loyalty and dedication without reciprocation. Lack of direction.

Pros

You will learn from the expertise of staff.

Cons

Lack of leadership integrity is alarming. A culture of organizational dysfunction and nepotism, high performers are stifled while low performers are rewarded and giving free range. Some of the smartest folks but not executers, operates more like a think-tank than a foundation dependent on donations. Leadership is NOT a champion of equity and inclusion. I have witnessed the lack of support first-hand and routinely witnessed leadership marginalize POCs.

Pros

Great employee team work always!

Cons

While employees work well together their is a lack of executive office support.

Pros

Good place to work at if you're into int'l relations/development field. They also pay well compared to other organizations in the non-profit world.

Cons

siloed project teams/alliances within the foundation operate in a semi-independent manner

Pros

Impressive name recognition, good pay for a non-profit, excellent benefits and vacation time (org closed between Christmas and New Years), some people experience good opportunities for growth and development in career at the org

Cons

Absent leadership, they have become comfortable with inflated salaries and do not manage proactively or show any leadership or initiative. Lack of understanding among leadership of volume of work that falls on junior staff; HR is effectively absent, Finance and Strategy/Ops teams are extremely disorganized and difficult to work with, lots of internal politics and pettiness to navigate just to accomplish simple tasks. There has also recently been a limit on how often someone can get promoted, which is now once every 2 years. For some employees, this policy is waived, causing confusion among other staff trying to be promoted or fairly compensated for their work.

Pros

- great benefits - passionate co-workers

Cons

Where to begin: - depending on who you’re manager is, your experience can be a nightmare - there is a huge disconnect between the organization’s mission and practical steps to accomplish this - everyone has become jaded and are simply coasting by - there are many people who are doing effectively nothing - pay could be better

Pros

Hybrid work model. Good work life balance. Great team.

Cons

Alliances are detached from UNF leadership