Pros
- work/life balance is very good - members are very productive and great to work with - work from home available - mission of org is admirable
Cons
CEO: The CEO has never understood NAFSA. She was hired with no substantial management experience...let me repeat for the cheap seats - NO Substantial Management Experience. And for this I fault the Board of 2016 who did the search. Why on earth would any Board hire someone so crucial with little or no real time management experience for a staff of 100 and 10,000 members!?? (2016 NAFSA Board you failed us so spectacularly.) Well for one thing they were blinded by her Dept of State pedigree and secondly because nonprofit boards tend to be a bit of a joke in terms of oversight. It's all resume building and trips to DC and hopnobbing with their pals and weekends at Salamander Resort (remember this Board meeting that was ok'd - by the Board, in 2018). And that is not all. NAFSA through her direction keeps hiring senior management people that are not from the field or have no understanding of an organization like NAFSA. These are big ticket hires with big ticket salaries. The CEO appears to have a knack at picking senior management hires who will not challenge her and/or who will not bring any value to the association. These hires are well into the six figures. Given a chance to promote someone within to a senior management position, she has so far rejected any and all such possibilities. Instead, the CEO prefers external candidates and I think it's because they don't have any sense how NAFSA was run prior to her tenure. For the record it was run well.