Interesting role at an interesting organisation, with several challenges
Pros
- Opportunity to be involved in a small organisation attempting to make a big impact across the country. - Organisation is small enough to allow for dialogue across different divisions. While there are challenges, tone is usually congenial. - Nice location for office.
Cons
- Limited development opportunities - such opportunities are described in contracts, but were mostly not made available. This can stymie career progression. - Organisation top heavy, and keen to keep this important role (with safeguarding responsibilities, and key to volunteer, beneficiary and partner relationships) as an unskilled, underpaid role. At time of writing, efforts are being made to replace this work with volunteer labour. - While the organisation is small enough to allow for dialogue across different divisions, this team's voice is rarely heard. This leads to problematic situations, like being set KPIs which have no basis in current statistics, resources, etc.