Pros
You work at a well-known human rights NGO. Good benefits.
Cons
Command and control environment. Upper-level staff do not care about support staff. Their goal is to get them to last as close to 2 years as possible with minimal effort. Average support staff last for 1.4 years, which says something about how they are treated, but management knows that there is a deep pool of recent graduates who would give anything to work at HRW. There is a support staff union but they are ineffectual given the aforementioned supply. There is little substantive work and support staff are made to feel guilty if they need to take overtime. Managers are ineffectual because the don’t have to be anything else. Be ready to be treated like the help rather than part of a team.
