Girl Effect Reviews

Massive inequality across the organisation in terms of workload, pay, progression opportunity, etc. Programmes are overpriced and they are struggling to hold on to funding without any results to show how they are helping girls. Leadership team politics are shocking and the inability to have a leader set expectations or enforce collaborative and respectful behaviours is directly contributing to the downfall of this organisation. People are actively pushed out for disagreeing with the wrong person or failing to stoke the right ego enough.

Very top heavy with directors and senior directors. Also very white middle class and SLT is primarily male. Culture of bullying was apparent and when mentioned to HR very little was done about it. Staff turnover is very high which is unsurprising. Many roles have a distinct lack of clarity and many managers are ill equipped (not necessarily their fault) to deal with managing teams. The workloads are always hectic and last minute due to zero strategy and all the ‘brands’ have different strategies and goals and no one ever seems to think about the bigger picture or long term impact. TEGA is amazing and should probably just become a standalone product. Marketing and PR all seems to be outsourced to expensive agencies and most flights to the country offices seem to be business class... a lot of time spent arranging fancy dinners for rich American wives rather than out in the field with the girls. Also directors receive a bonus...which felt pretty inappropriate for a charity.