Good for wellbeing, poor on strategy - Project Manager ShelterBox Employee Review

Relaxed work environment, friendly colleagues, open to new ideas

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Very helpful colleagues who are all very passionate about their work and generally a joy to be around and collaborate with. Leadership wants you to succeed and does a good job creating a collaborative environment that rewards hard work and creates good work life balance

For people who have worked for other humanitarian organizations, the way shelterbox works is outdated. Relying on volunteer response teams and limiting responses to distributing "stuff" is generally no longer acceptable in most professional humanitarian circles. The organization is working through this but still very committed to it's root of "The Box". Also very frustrating dynamic between U.S. and U.K. teams due to seperate operating entities and at times competing fundraising, can get territorial and result in counterproductive restrictions and communications flows. Overall, a good organization to be a part of for those new to the humanitarian sector but not much flexibility in approach so those who have worked for other international organizations will likely run into a lot of frustrating roadblocks