International Rescue Committee reviews

Overworked and underpaid, high turnover rate, layoffs due to funding ending, inexperienced and unprofessional management in some departments.

This is a hard place for competent and ethical people to succeed in or be happy in. You will see a lot of waste, negligence and abuse. If you are a hard worker and have even basic knowledge/competence for your job, you will end up picking up a huge amount of slack without being rewarded or recognized. You will eventually lose patience over the lack of forward motion and progress on basic organizational improvements, much of which is very simply due to mismanagement and incompetence of decision makers. I personally know at least 5 people from the New York office who left the IRC with serious emotional, mental and physical health/exhaustion issues caused by working at the IRC due to highly unprofessional treatment by managers. I directly witnessed employees who are *former refugees served by the IRC and/or people of color* treated poorly and denied professional growth opportunies after many years of employment, at the hand of people who lack the appropriate cultural awareness and mission-aligned values to be working at the IRC at all, but somehow hold positions of power in the New York office.