Pros
Some laughter and banter between some colleagues and new friendships formed..
Cons
The organisation is not ready for compliance or competent when it comes to delivering programmes. With no aforementioned outcomes and outputs there is no quality control with little to no accountability to donors and funders outside of pre-campaign contact. The organisation is backdated and currently being led by an egotistical CEO and Senior Leadership Team who have little to no experience in the roles they have been handed to them. Lots of new staff have been brought in with blank pay cheques provided with a huge increase in overheads with little to show for expenditure. The organisations believes in news for the sake of news with the same people using Muslim Aid as a vehicle for their own self publicity. There is no development of staff nor is there any progression, the organisation throughout its entirety is unprofessional, unethical and incompetent. The little good, is in the people who are sincere and try to create change however any such notion is quickly shut down by archaic work processes and the boys club that is the CEO and SLT and “friends” who have been hired. The middle managers have no industry standard and staff who have worked long term for the organisation do not recieve adequate training hence the closed door mentality and lack of change. There is little to no support provided and internal work processes are farcical. HR are a joke and do not support staff with their grievances, once again instead of being their for wellbeing they are effectively used as a tool to carry out the dirty work. The culture is bad an totally non Islamic let alone ready for 21st century working practises. I would strongly recommend against working for the organisation as there is no regard for staff development, management nor training unless you can get within the inner circle then you can be like the rest, do nothing and dictate your own wage and working patterns.