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3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(144 total reviews)

Craig Redmond

71% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Relief International has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 144 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Relief International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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144 reviews
1.0
Jun 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Employees and managers are very passionate about helping the people they serve, and dedicated to their work.

Cons

Management, at multiple levels, is pretty trigger-happy about firing people. Some directors talk openly in meetings about specific employees (who aren't in those meetings) they want to fire. Multiple managers tend to give employees little-to-no support. Budgeting priorities, at least at GSO (headquarters), are skewed toward funding things like travel and away from things like staffing. This leads to low staffing levels, and employees who are underpaid, and in at least some cases, pretty severely overworked.

4.0
Sep 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Field staff quite committed. Emergency response is yielding results. Regionalization is a positive step. Centers of excellence is a positive step to increase focus & quality. Grant fund raising is on the rise.

Cons

Country leadership lacks accountability leading to nepotism & loss of resources. Human resources management needs serious improvement in accountability, fairness & transparency in recruitment & performance review. Finance system is weak in control & compliance. Management line specifically finance & staff are blurred & abused. Communication protocol often personalized. Funds is considered as only measure of success for country & regional offices. Operation procedures are often rigid & top down.

3.0
Jan 24, 2016

Offer more incentives for employees to stay

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Passionate and friendly HQ office. Very multicultural, diverse group of individuals, you could learn something from everyone. Providing assistance to those in need afflicted by natural disasters, civil conflicts etc.

Cons

Little incentive to stay with other NGO's offering more. Employee retention was very low, it seemed like someone left every week.

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Relief International Response
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Dear sender, Thank you for your service at RI and for your feedback. We take input seriously and use it to constantly improve our workplace environment. Let me address some of your concerns. Regarding salary and benefits, each year we benchmark our compensation packages to other INGOs of similar or larger size, and therefore offer salary and benefits that are competitive. For example, our health and dental coverage is considered top in the industry. You don’t mention when or where you worked for RI, but in recent years we have added staff training and development programs to nurture professional growth. We offer online courses, opportunities for travel to seminars and conferences, and an individual goals tracker, which lets employees set and manage personal development. For these and other reasons, our voluntary turnover rate for the head office in 2015 was as low as 3% which puts us at the top 5% of INGO turnover rate. Our expat turnover is at the top 24% INGOs. In 2015 we hired 63 employees internationally & 48 at the Global and Regional Support Offices (GSO/ RSO). We currently have a total of 1,431 employees in the entire organization including local national employees. Employees love our flexible work environment, with benefits like telecommuting, paid leave for bereavement, parenting and illness, and of course, paid vacation. We offer an exceptional savings plan, to which we contribute even if the employee doesn’t. These and other benefits have attracted several employees to Relief International. But people also choose RI for the opportunity to be part of an organization that is large enough to be effective, but small enough to allow each and every individual make a measurable impact on the operation. Thank you again for your service. Please feel free to contact us with other questions or concerns at AskHR@ri.org. We wish you the best in your current endeavors.
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