Great mandate, management needs improvment - Anonymous employee UNICEF Employee Review

2.0
Apr 22, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great unifying mandate - Vast field presence doing very interesting work - Opportunity to affect change on a large scale

Cons

- A great organisation resting on the laurels of its past performance and unifying mandate - Managers make decisions that lack of transparency and can be authoritarian - Lack of merit-based hiring practices and deeply entrenched systems of favoritism.

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5.0
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Pros

-great exposure to a UN agency with one of the strongest and clearest mandates

Cons

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4.0
Apr 10, 2026
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Pros

friendly team, smart people, flexible work environment

Cons

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