Relief International reviews

When I was there, it was a one woman show, who literally controlled everything. However, the intent and delivery of emergency services to the needy population, was noteworthy, and made the work fulfilling. Regional structure serves the organization well but some regional directors were lacking the experience leading to burnout and poor professional and personal relationships. Financial systems are improving. Headquarters need to be more present and involved.

- Contract was terminated early when funding ran out, despite repeatedly voicing the need to secure alternative funding to country management for almost 5 months. - Poor internet in field location limited ability to access training resources, emails, and everything that would make your job a lot smoother. - Internal financial systems were a nightmare to deal with: was expected to know exactly how much money had been spent on budget but nothing was reported formally and directly until up to 6 weeks after, with minimal support or meaningful help from finance otherwise. - Technical program management were ignored or worse not even consulted on program proposals, leading to bad programming that they were expected to then implement with little notice. - Issues of favoritism, lack of professionalism etc from country director. - Received practically zero professional development in 7 months.