Young Audiences Reviews

Management is not top tier and there is much board interference that results in inaction on the ground and a lot of wasted time. There is a tendency to protect the Board's feelings at the expense of staff and clients served.

For a 70 year organization, it runs worse than a start-up. Not the cohesion, continuous processes, and transfer of information one would expect. Everyone is working past their bandwidth and beyond the 7 hours they're paid for, but treated as if they're not really working because they're working remotely. If you're interviewing, just ask about turnover in the last 2 years. An answer other than 8-9 people having been terminated or departed (in a staff of 8) is untruthful. Ask how many Executive Directors have been in the position in the last two years. So much DEI training, so little actually done to weave it through the org in meaningful ways. Board and Executive levels just do not listen or lend real consideration to anything that doesn't support their opinion. Not from consultants, not from staff. First reaction to any suggestion or opinion is defensiveness. Any job that describes themselves as a "family" is signaling the lack of boundaries or respect they think they'll have to give you so watch out for that phrase in the interview. Or just ask what the culture is like and hear it dropped.