Job boards

I maintain a list of social purpose job boards. If you know of others I should add, please let me know. Revised and updated 19 May 2024.

As the list has become longer, I am now sorting it – entirely subjectively – into the places I have found most useful when I have been job-hunting, and the others that you may wish to check.

Most useful according to me

  1. TechChange Impact Source: large job board with thoughtful filtering options.
  2. Devnetjobs: Covers whole dev industry. Huge database and (almost unmanageably) lengthy weekly email – but most functions only available to Value Members ($48 for Q1).
  3. Bright+3: Extremely comprehensive Google Sheet collating job boards, including several that don’t yet appear here. Special focus on digital, campaign and creative roles.
  4. Devex: Covers whole dev industry. Pretty huge. Easy to create alerts. About half of jobs visible – unlock all and get various other stuff for $9.50/month.
  5. 80000 Hours: Very limited, curated set of job recommendations for Effective Altruists. Mostly US or UK.

Still worth checking

  1. ImpactPool: Focus on UN and international orgs, but actually lots of NGO jobs too. Really nice interface.
  2. DevelopmentAid: Very large database, pretty good search function.
  3. Human rights funders: Great select list of jobs at major philanthropy foundations working on human rights.
  4. EvalCommunity: Endless M&E jobs.
  5. ReliefWeb: Comprehensive source of humanitarian, relief and conflict jobs. Good search function.
  6. C4D network: Pretty good weekly email for members of jobs and consultancy opportunities, with a focus on communications and behaviour change. Searchable job board available to all.
  7. CoordinationSud: Good search function. More limited selection. Especially Francophone countries and French NGOs.
  8. JPAL: Academic research roles. Good searchability and common application makes it very easy to apply to multiple roles.
  9. AngelList: Startups. Heavily US focused.
  10. CharityJob: UK charity and government jobs, mostly. Quite usable.
  11. Bond: Smallish number of jobs, but often quite interesting. More UK based.
  12. IntJobs: Lots of US think tank jobs. A fair few Africa-based jobs, mostly at more senior levels. Not a huge repository. Reasonable search interface.
  13. W4MP: Almost entirely UK politics, but decent source of London think tank jobs. Little search ability.
  14. NGOJobsinAfrica: Quite a large number of jobs, some more junior. Fairly limited searching ability.
  15. Idealist: Good searchability. Limited Africa jobs. Many non-paid opportunities listed also.
  16. ACF: Smallish list of UK charity jobs
  17. EPLO: Focused on European peacebuilding.
  18. Impact Opportunity. Strong US Philanthropy listings, with good searchability.
  19. UN Jobs: Mostly UN, as the name suggests, but some other roles. Somewhat messy search function.
  20. Josh’s Water Jobs: Only WASH, as the name suggests. Within that, impressively comprehensive and with a solid search function.
  21. Tech Jobs for Good: As the name suggests, mission-driven tech positions. Only in the US. Very many roles, though limited ability to filter.
  22. Green Job List: Monthly climate change and social purpose focused jobs newsletter. Almost all US based. About 30 per issue.
  23. Fast Forward: Tech non-profit jobs. Reasonable range, mostly US, with a smooth interface.
  24. Escape the City: Nice searchable interface, including the ability to filter by willingness to sponsor visas! Focus on UK, and on socially-minded for-profits.
  25. Anna Meier has curated a list of job boards for academic jobs in political science.
  26. Effective Altruism NYC: Strong range of EA (especially AI and catastrophic risk) roles, plus useful links and advice.
  27. SDG.careers: Filter by which SDG you wish to focus on. Lots of US roles at present. Not that much filtering available.
  28. The Impact Job: job board, in-depth org profiles, and career resources focused on climate, nonprofits, CSR, and mission-driven companies.
  29. Gender Jobs: Excellent coverage and strong filtering ability.
  30. Probably Good: smaller board focused on research-heavy and EA-type roles.
  31. Remote Impact: mostly tech skills in social impact broadly defined, all with the option to work remotely.
  32. Impact Finance Pro: simple interface for jobs focused specifically on impact finance.
  33. PCDN: Small but ambitious job board, with their own strong meta-list of job boards, featuring several that I didn’t know about.

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