Do not work here! - Project Officer ICLEI Employee Review

1.0
26 Feb 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues! This is such s great group! A lot of support and good banter

Cons

Luckily I found a new position so that I could leave ICLEI before my contract ends. This place is simply aweful. You do extremely hard work and get not even as much as an acknowledgment from the senior managers. It is exploitation. They do not care about personal development nor about actual skills or experiences. With my team we carried out one of the most successful projects of iclei in a long time (according to my colleagues). In order to make this happened we worked very long hours and put a lot of passion and energy into our work. The team supervisor over achieved in fundraising and other project objectives. A very talented and driven person. As a thank you this person is being bullied out and 2 of the senior managers are going around taking credit for the work our team did and saying untrue and bullish things about my supervisor. Also, I applied for a job in my field (over 3 years experience in similar organisation) at iclei and ended up often doing simple administrative and stupid tasks. While there is need to people like me with experience, they prefer to underperform than to share what they seem to believe are activities and knowledge only open to a clique of 3-4 managers. The fact that I had much more demanding responsibilities in my previous job where I did very well does not interest them unless it serves their personal advancement.

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