Safe Horizon Reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(230 total reviews)

Ariel Zwang

54% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Safe Horizon has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Safe Horizon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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230 reviews
2.0
10 May 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Everything they do is incredible in theory. They genuinely WANT to help. Their method of dealing with clients and their needs is unique and well thought out.

Cons

The upper management is very smart, but are very disconnected from their middle management and front lines workers. They have no concept of what really goes on in their programs, and if a middle manager has the ear of someone at the top, they'll never listen if there is a problem with that person. Their execution of programs is feeble at best, and the competition is so blinding at the middle management level that they have a habit of ridding themselves of talent prematurely. If you somehow find yourself on the wrong side of your superiors, look out. They'll do everything possible to make your life difficult to make you quit and if you don't, they'll terminate you with no real explanation. If you do quit in that situation, they'll refuse an exit interview. Horrible experience.

3.0
30 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The experience is one of a kind, coworkers for the most part are amazing, paid training in the field .

Cons

Feeling of little value for employees . Upper management makes the money while the people doing the work don't . Overtime almost every night with no extra pay . No raises.

3.0
26 Jan 2022

CVAP

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A good place to start out if you are interested in non-profit work. Decent benefits, some supervisors are very supportive, good trainings, recently more anti-racism work has been being done across the agency, there are opportunities to join affinity groups and connect with other employees and share experiences.

Cons

During covid advocates were expected to cover several different precincts without a salary raise. Some supervisors can be very petty about minor mistakes. Also, some managers seem annoyed if staff call to ask questions about cases. The supervisors are supposed to support the advocates and should be available to discuss high risk cases. LOW PAY and high workload. Advocates are dealing with high risk cases such as assaults, and strangulations daily, and are paid very little for this work. Some advocates are making calls back to back all day long and are being paid less than $40,000/year. Pre-covid advocates were going on home visits to DV victims homes not knowing if the offender would be there, or not. This is somewhat dangerous work, and advocates are not compensated accordingly. Also, Precincts can be challenging to work in. This depends on the precinct. Company culture is open to staff voicing concerns, but not much is done to make changes to help staff with many of their concerns. At times it seems like upper management is more concerned with their government contracts than with staff needs.

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