Pros
Good pay Remote working Opportunities to progress
Cons
A strange place to work. Found most staff to be unapproachable, abrasive and unhelpful. The organisation put on a pretence of being inclusive and supportive, but I found there to be a blame culture and the management style to be micro-managey. There is insistence on things being done the long way round and heavy focus on reporting, as a lot of data needs to be presented to the board to maintain funding. This all means it is difficult to make progress. The organisation acts in a very dated way, relying on paper and post. For remote roles they also require you to have a second broadband line installed in your home and an ancient looking office phone installed, meaning you are chained to one room. The organisation has been around a long time, but seems to be in a constant state of change and puts heavy emphasis on employees ‘personal development’ and providing ideas - this to me is because management are no sure on how things should be run themselves. People are attracted to the roles as they pay well, however there seemed to be a high turnover.