Most of the satisfaction seems to be dependent upon the department you are in. Some departments are great and have wonderful leaders, others seem to be checked out and more focused on traveling to Spain every other month. The CEO, while passionate, seems pretty much checked out when it comes to the staff - which wouldn't be a problem if other senior management/the board were involved with staff. Altogether, management (even at the lowest manager level) seem to be more concerned with reinforcing the divide between management & staff rather than building strong teams.
If you are in a senior/mid-level position of your career and are content with that, Oxfam is a decent place .... also, if you are just at the beginning of your career, the same! However, if you are looking for career advancement, your only real option is to leave Oxfam, gain experience elsewhere, and come back to a new position - it's happened a lot. Senior management seems to be aware of that issue but doesn't seem to care enough to address it. For instance, while managers will routinely get promoted to new managerial titles with little change in duties, it's hard to move up if you're not a manager even if you're taking on an immense amount of new work and showing progress.
A staffwide survey showed a lot of slippage in a number of
