Pros
Ample opportunity to explore the garden. Lovely coworkers at the associate director level and below.
Cons
The members of executive leadership and heads of the development department here are in some weird 8-way power struggle. The VP gate-kept donor relationships for nearly a decade before she gave someone access to her knowledge - which is all in her head. Get ready to get thrown under the bus in meetings big and small. Forget bringing up concerns, these folks are allergic to accountability. Every process is as cumbersome as possible, checked in triplicate even for senior staff, and yet donor notes in the CRM are treated as an afterthought. It’s all paper and in the heads of executive leadership. Any attempt to innovate is taken as an insult. My supervisor couldn’t let go of any of the tasks I was supposed to take on from her in my newly created role, so I mostly spent my time on professional development for my reports, shielding them from her demeaning comments, and meeting with new donors for dedications. I dreaded interactions with finance and the President’s office, where anything I said was met with a baseline level of contempt typically experienced at the DMV.
Also, if you’re a working parent, run, don’t walk, away from this workplace. The leadership and HR are inflexible and lacking in basic human empathy to a degree I have not witnessed before or since.