Mandate incongruent to the reality of everyday work - Senior Project Manager UNFPA Employee Review

1.0
20 Mar 2022
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Pros

Great and important mandate which focuses on improving the lives of women, girls (and all youth) in the most vulnerable of settings through interventions in GBV and SRH.

Cons

Retention, rotation, promotion of senior leadership needs a complete overhaul. Place over-run by senior level incompetents and bullies who either get shifted from country office to regional office, to HQ and back again after something has gone very very wrong (e.g. harassment, mis-management, insubordination), making the place unsafe and toxic. Political appointments are way too many, esp. of persons who are ill-fit for the job and can bring entire divisions down and put the place at severe risk. Basic background checks needs improvement- hiring persons under investigation, who have been fired in previous jobs, who been reported against in previous roles can easily be found out if checks are done well- but having reference checks that can be filled out by your cousins won't capture that!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Remote work, mission-driven, name recognition of the UN. Workload was not overwhelming, leading to good work-life balance.

Cons

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