Actionaid Reviews

3.6

76% would recommend to a friend

(239 total reviews)

Frances Longley

61% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Actionaid has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 239 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Actionaid 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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239 reviews
4.0
26 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

1. With presence in over 45 countries, it has a strong local presence and experience working towards social justice at the grass root level. 2. A feminist organisation with women's rights at the heart of every campaign. 3. Multicultural and dynamic team 4. Experienced and skilled communication and fundraising team members. 5. Children's rights and women's rights & dignity are protected and promoted. 6. Heavily involved in organising and empowering youth and movements to campaign for policies and engage with local authorities and international organizations towards poverty eradication

Cons

1. Highly political organisation 2. Most country leadership teams do not understand feminist principles and thus do not integrate it within their work with staff, reserving it for only beneficiaries of projects and programmes. 3. Heavy reliance on donor funding, which is dwindling due to the global economic crisis. 4. Extremely bureaucratic, with systems and policies sometimes being very far removed and slightly inhumane. 5. Lack of room for growth and elevation within your role. Depending on what department you're in, you can be trapped in the same role with no progression. 6. Some Country Management Teams do not share information from the global team that promote staff empowerment, as they do not want staff empowered

1.0
26 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Mission driven with dedicated and skilled staff

Cons

- AA International CEO has created a highly political & insular culture of favouritism, & nepotism which disempowers staff. ActionAid is a sinking ship and he is at the helm, clearly scrambling to jump off . He has driven it into the ground, and I would not be surprised if it folds within the next 5 years. - Awful HR & IT capacity - Corrosive internal politics - infighting between Directors & Country Directors, with lower level staff often caught in between - Focus on internal politics diverts attention from the mission and organisational effectiveness in achieving its work, and means that good staff are lost quickly - Very cliquey, with no effective performance management nor accountability - Limited job security - numerous restructures due to various funding crises as leadership clearly don't know how to adjust to a changing funding landscape - Systems and approaches are from a different era - dysfunctional & dinosaur-like organisation

1.0
6 Nov 2014

Terrible HR and management

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Pros

The cause is brilliant, you get to meet people from all over the world who work for the movement.

Cons

Management is really poor (especially in Comms) and HR don't support staff. Unfortunately, we saw staff made redundant when heads of team decided they didn't like them. Very sad really - and the HR team at ActionAid UK just sit by and watch.

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