• AlertNet - Weekly job alerts after a longish registration.
• Commonwealth Secretariat - Job vacancies
• Devex - You will need to become a member to get their twice weekly development jobs newsletter listing the jobs they post and/or news on development.
• Foreign Policy Association - Weekly job digest with other options available with a short registration.
• Global Focus - A fortnightly job listing, requiring quite a lengthy registration. Subscribing to a bulletin of development issues is also possible after registering.
• Idealist - Requires a quick registration, and then allows you to save a job search criteria and receive email updates.
• ReliefWeb - Requires a short registration and allows a highly customized subscription including weekly job vacancies.
• TearFund - N.B. This organization requires you to be Christian. You can receive UK-based or international position emails.

Unfortunately, the more specialist job boards also normally require more experience. However, there are volunteer and internship opportunities available. Don’t forget to check the major job websites.

We try and keep this list up-to-date, but the Internet is a volatile place! If you do find a broken or irrelevant link, or you know of a link that should be here, please let us know!

• Action Against Hunger - A job list of current vacancies
• Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Development-related research positions.
• Center for International Forestry Research - Forestry and research jobs, including internship and fellowship positions
• Commonwealth Secretariat - Vacancies available in Commonwealth countries, focused on experts
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) - Mainly agricultural, environmental and research jobs advertised by the centers comprising the CGIAR.
• DevJ.org - A simple list of current vacancies. Search is available, but the number of active jobs is too small to need it.
• Economist.com - Search possible. Not only for economists, but orientated towards experts.
• Ends JobSearch - Environmental jobs, mostly UK based.
• Family Health International - Health-oriented, but not only health-related positions. Also has an internship program.
• Inomics - Job search for economists.
• International Jobs Center - Shows categorized job lists, but you will have to pay (booooooo) if you want to see all the jobs available or get email updates.
• International Organization for Migration - Job listing and also offers internships.
• International Service - They don’t advertise their positions directly. You will need to submit an application first.
• Iris Center at the University of Maryland - Positions based on campus and off.
• TearFund - N.B. To work for this organization you must be Christian. They offer job lists for UK and international opportunities.

As a newcomer to development, you may find a lot of these job sites only offer jobs that require 3-5 years experience minimum, but internship opportunities do turn up reasonably frequently. Don’t forget to check the smaller and niche websites.

We try and keep this list up-to-date, but the Internet is a volatile place! If you do find a broken or irrelevant link, or you know of a link that should be here, please let us know!

• Aidboard - A new aid and development job board, including a search facility.
• AlertNet - Job search facility and listing.
• Bond - UK-biased job search, but international jobs also shown.
• Devex - Has a search facility and list. They also offer an Individual Professional Membership, which costs US$19 per month - we have not tried this.
• DevJobs - Hard to take this website seriously due to its poor design, but it seems to post regular job updates.
• DevNetJobs.org - Offers paid subscription to jobs, but job list is freely available on website.
• Eldis - Offers a job list.
• Foreign Policy Association - Job listing and search facility. Includes internship and volunteer positions.
• Global Focus - Offers listings broken down into job category types and a search facility.
• Global Recruitment - A clear and simple job vacancy list.
• Idealist - Extensive and well-maintained job listing of both for- and non-profit jobs.
• Jobs4Development.com - A well organized job filter.
• Microfinance Gateway - Not just microfinance jobs.
• OneWorld.net - You will need to visit the regional OneWorld sites to find employment opportunities - see the dropdown list in the top right corner of the website.
• ReliefWeb - Search and job listing.
• The Communication Initiative Network - List of development and communication jobs. You can also register yourself to receive bulletins about specific development areas of interest, but there is no job email list.