Management Sciences for Health Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than a year

Pros – MSH is great if you start off with a bachelors degree and want some experience in international development / project support.

Cons – They began hiring people with masters degrees to do the very basic admin tasks.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great benefits, opportunities to travel, employee-centric, opportunities to directly contribute to the projects and interact with international colleagues

Cons – Some of the upper management are very academic and a little stuffy, working for USAID requires dealing with a lot of red tape and formalities, need to change course at the drop of a hat to respond to USAID requests, finance & operations staff are not seen as equal team members and have little opportunity to make valuable contributions or travel.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – On an individual level, the company has many interesting, accomplished, and competent people. It also has a good benefits package, lots of vacation, and tends to be pretty accommodating of its employees life demands.

Cons – There is little attention paid to to lower- and mid-level employees. Technical work tends to stay only at the highest level, and doesn't give younger staff opportunities for professional growth. Also, there is a lack of transparency in how decisions are made about promotions and salaries. The pay differential between lower and high level staff is pretty substantial for an NGO.

Advice to Senior Management – Move away from the "old boys club" mentality at the upper level of the organization, and start encouraging and rewarding growth and contributions at all levels of the organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Potential to reach many vulnerable people who need access to quality and affordable healthcare in developing countries, affecting change on a massive scale, leeway to be innovative and carve out a niche for your work, organization is constantly seeking to grow and to be the best version of itself

Cons – Inexperienced managers, lack of mentors to facilitate professional development, little to no established professional development opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – Start focusing on the value for money that younger staff bring to the organization. There are many multi-talented junior analysts that are motivated and committed to advancing the MSH cause and work, who are being overlooked for opportunities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – I work with extremely gifted individuals and there are few restrictions on the things departmentally I get to learn. That's about it.

Cons – Limited growth, overambitious leadership team that ignores the urgency of compliance, looks to phase out "cumbersome" processes, while trying to enforce abstract ideals. Little room for growth and advancement. Too great a focus on technical experts, ignoring the core groups such as Accounting and Finance.

Advice to Senior Management – Please note that your core staff, such as Accounting, Contracts, Procurement and Benefits *need* to be reinforced. Consider creating a compliance and training department instead of abstract goals such as becoming a "learning organization." Fix the wheel before driving. Please stop coupling an inordinate number of initiatives atop already overwhelming daily responsibilities. Understand all sides, and that the organization could run much more smoothly if we grounded ourselves instead of trying to be overly abstract. EG. PPRD: useless to a person whose base work culture does not permit "outstanding" action. Stop discussing accountability when we have no "ownership" of any piece of our processes. Reward all equally. Consider returning to Tuition Assistance/Reimbursement. Avoid discussing the topic of religion at work. Start enforcing workplace equality---those at the top should respect those at the bottom. Try and understand a process before attempting to fix it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good worklife balance. Better pay compared to other NGOs

Cons – Little career advancement opportunities. Few personal development and trainigs

Advice to Senior Management – Need to consider employees development seriously

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than a year

Pros – Diverse, interesting people to work with
Many travel opportunities
Great health, benefits, and lots of vacation time

Cons – Big company means sometimes change or improvement is slow
Not many training opportunities but they are working to improve that

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Being a health related institution, really doing a great job of improving the health of the rest of the population

Cons – Have not met any so far

Advice to Senior Management – Great work done, continue with the spirit

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – MSH's DC office is in a good location, ability to work with field staff has been a good experience, I've learned a lot from senior staff (but haven't been allowed to practice it).

Cons – Many of the administrative/program coordinator level staff wind up leaving after 1 year since there is no movement up unless you have a masters, ditto for Progam Officers/Associates. Often much of the "technical" work is only done by the older staff who have been at MSH for 10-15 years. There isn't a desire across the centers/projects to train junior staff, and this causes many of us to want to leave.

Current Employee – been working at Management Sciences for Health

Pros – MSH is truly diverse! It is stimulating to work on an everyday basis with the brightest and most educated professionals from different cultures across the globe. Our employees are the "boots on the ground" in the developing world to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable. MSH has undergone a complete restructuring and has vastly improved its corporate management structure to create more centralized management services, such as HR and Contracts, the results of which have created stronger and better-managed corporate services.

Cons – Top leadership is not attuned to communicating on a regular, systematic and written basis about all the good changes going on. The quarterly video-conferenced staff meetings are amazing because they involve all global offices but those meetings should not be the only mechanism for strategically communicating with staff.

Advice to Senior Management – There is lots of good change and improvements being made. Communicate about them! Determine what changes need to be made in the top leadership composition and make those changes happen!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend