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Had excellent career growth but the management shift is devastating - Business Development and Membership Manager Business for Sustainable Development Employee Review

4.0
3 Aug 2024
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Pros

The best things about working in this industry and in this specific organization are the flexibility of your schedule, you get paid by output and deliverables not by the hour (although we must be available/reachable within the PH business office hours), you meet wonderful people from different walks of life plus you get to learn from them (avoid the toxic ones!), great workplace to connect with sustainability practitioners and network with like-minded organizations, you'll get the perks of learning from both private and public sector during various engagements and projects (you get to attend events for free!!) and lastly you get to contribute to the SDGs one way or another.

Cons

You will not be spoon fed here, you need to be proactive and take initiatives to achieve your targets and goals per department. Depending on your superior, you have to be adaptable to navigate yourself in. You'll be given certain tasks that you may not know about or understand so you'll be on your own basically but if you have team members and a BRILLIANT manager then it's all good ;) (as I said, there are toxic ones), and lastly the change of management was not well executed and so employees had a hard time with the adjustment/turnover.

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1.0
17 Feb 2021
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Pros

Very flexible working hours with option to work from home. Extremely reliable and easy-to-work with employees. Opportunity to interact with clients' upper management. Family-like atmosphere.

Cons

Leadership. The Executive Director is often closed-minded to most ideas of employees. He normally only accepts ideas that align with his mindset. He is the be-all and end-all of the organization which affects productivity and working hours since it creates a bottleneck for the approval process; this also slows down any changes that need to be implemented for the betterment of the organization. Theories and methodologies are changed regularly, even in the middle of an client engagement which causes confusion and delays for both the staff and client. Heavy workload and extended working hours are considered regular occurrences and does not cause alarm to him so no mitigation practices are enforced. The Executive Director also tends to force his ideas on clients causing friction and leaving the employees to do damage control.

1.0
18 Feb 2021
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Pros

You get to manage your own time with "work from home". Officemates are fun to be with. You get to meet high-level clients from local conglomerates.

Cons

Poor management (especially with the executive director). The ED sometimes doesn't have or know the boundaries of work and life as he's okay with meeting with his people until the late hours of the night. He also has favoritism for several people, and even tolerates that one employee who does not deliver outputs on time. He is very picky and is a micromanager, with no trust in employees he doesn't like even if they're good at their job. The organization also fails to hire an adequate amount of admin and accounting staff to carry out admin and accounting-related tasks, which leaves project managers to perform admin-related stuff as well.

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