ChildFund International reviews

Leadership not strong, bandwidth, cut jobs and push people to do more

We have a very dysfunctional executive leadership team that has trickled down the negative impacts to other parts of the organization and led to serious concerns about organizational culture going forward. There is one executive in particular who has changed the tone of the executive team for the worse in the last nearly two years and is primarily responsible for the negative tone throughout the division they lead, which also seriously effects other divisions. That person's leadership style is divisive to say the least - they talk negatively about people who report to them and their peers on the executive team to anyone and everyone who will listen; they seem to have little to no respect for ChildFund as an organization or its history of sponsorship; they badmouth staff skills and refer to country office staff in particular in derogatory ways; they instill fear in the staff that they directly supervise and others. There have been many complaints through various channels and nothing has been done; maybe not enough staff have spoken up because of the fear they feel. ChildFund is in a very bad position if staff continue to be led by this person. It's toxic.