Canadian Red Cross reviews

With the exception of extreme emergency situations, staff is not enabled to act or complete tasks in any kind of timely fashion. Clients, beneficiaries, donors are not the centre or focus of work due to excessive process geared toward serving internal needs. Low motivation to achieve, little to no accountability for projects and timelines as an organisation, yet staff are pressured to be accountable. Pay is non-competitive across industry standards and there is little to no opportunity for advancement or training if you are able to secure a permanent position. In-house training is either inaccessible or irrelevant. National approach to programs and staff management creates jobs and work but outputs are watered down and fail to acknowledge regional difference, barely meeting lowest common denominator needs.

•Extremely hierarchical and difficult to advance in your career here •Terrible and unhelpful HR department •Organization structure is extremely unclear - I left without ever seeing a formal org chart. Makes it difficult to know who to reach out to and how to get the support you need •Toxic behaviours amongst some of the most senior people I worked with (very few people actually embodied the core principles of the Red Cross which was disappointing) •Low pay for the type and amount of work (you can easily find the same job at a different company with a way better salary) •There is absolutely no company culture. No morale. Core values are not enforced. It could be fine if you're a self-motivated, but it definitely wasn't for me •Literally no diversity at the upper levels, which feels hypocritical for an organization that preached "inclusion"