Ethical jobs resources
Action Aid vacancies
Action Aid is one of the UK's largest development agencies, working in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all human rights. Check their regularly updated jobs page for their latest vacancies.
British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND)
BOND is a network of over 190 UK based voluntary organizations working in international development. They list vacancies from a number of organizations.
CAFOD
CAFOD is the English and Welsh arm of Caritas Internationalis, a worldwide network of Catholic relief and development organizations. CAFOD works in partnership on over 1000 programmes in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Concern Worldwide
Concern works towards the alleviation and elimination of poverty among people living in extreme or absolute poverty in the poorest countries of the world.
Christian Aid Jobs
Christian Aid works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
Oxfam International Vacancies
Oxfam International is an international group of 11 autonomous non-government organizations working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty. This page links to the vacancy page of all the Oxfam offices around the world.
Ethical Careers Service from People & Planet
Looking for a career change, or just thinking about setting up an office re-cycling scheme? Whether you are a student, graduate, careers service, student union or other organization, the Ethical Careers Service has something to offer you.
Plan UK Vacancies
Plan is a child-centred community development agency with no religious and political affiliations, enabling families and communities in the poorest countries to make lasting improvements to the lives of their children.
Vacancies from Save the Children
Save the Children works to create a better world for children in 70 countries, helping children in the world's most impoverished communities. Save the Children advertises both UK and global vacancies here.
Survival International
Survival has supporters in 82 countries and aims to utilise public opinion and public action to secure long-term improvement for the cultures of tribal peoples. It works for tribal peoples rights through education, advocacy and campaigns, and also provides a platform for tribal people to address the world.
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian aid agency, currently working in 92 countries and helping over 73 million people in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice. They have dozens of vacancies overseas as well as in their head office in the UK.
CARE USA
CARE is one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations, reaching tens of millions of people each year in more than 60 countries across the world.
AlertNet.org
AlertNet.org, funded by the Reuters Foundation, provides live international news from and an extensive section of job vacancies and news from more than 180 member NGOs.
DB Classifieds from The Communication Initiative
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. A listing of open posts in development and communication organisations is available through their DB Classifieds page.
DevNet Jobs
The DevNet Jobs Site lists job opportunities available in the not-for-profit sector in India and other countries.
Department for International Development, UK
The Department for International Development (DfID) is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. Details of employment opportunities with DfID, in the UK and overseas, as part of a course of study or practical attachment on a longer-term basis.
Environmentjob.co.uk
A resource for great jobs and volunteering opportunities in the environmental sector. Environmentjob.co.uk aims to make it possible for environmental organisations, however small, to advertise nationally.
Expertist.net The knowledge-sharing network for international development experts, Expertist.net covers all market sectors and professional functions. It is a fast, topical and low-cost medium for offering or tracing expert services.
Hacesfalta.org
A Spanish portal created by Canal Solidario to offer a jobs service, specialized for NGOs, and to facilitate and promote volunteering. Organizations can add their job vacancies and volunteering needs and people can look for these opportunities through the database, specifying different interest areas.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch's areas of special initiative include academic freedom, business and human rights, free expression, prisons, and human rights in the United States.
Mango
Mango runs a register of carefully selected skilled and experienced finance professionals available to work on relief and development projects in the field. It also provides agencies with access to a stream of qualified finance professionals.
ReliefWeb Vacancies
The ReliefWeb Vacancies section lists up to 100 new jobs per week in the humanitarian and development sectors, and the weekly vacancies email is sent to over 25,000 subscribers.
Tearfund
Tearfund is an evangelical Christian relief and development charity working through local partners to bring help and hope to communities in need around the world.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
World Service Enquiry
Are you looking for meaningful work for peace, justice and development? Are you keen to work overseas in a 'third world country' to help in whatever way you can? Are you anxious to find out whether your skill and experience is sufficient to apply successfully? If your answer to any or all of these questions is YES, World Service Enquiry can help you.
Action Aid is one of the UK's largest development agencies, working in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all human rights. Check their regularly updated jobs page for their latest vacancies.
British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND)
BOND is a network of over 190 UK based voluntary organizations working in international development. They list vacancies from a number of organizations.
CAFOD
CAFOD is the English and Welsh arm of Caritas Internationalis, a worldwide network of Catholic relief and development organizations. CAFOD works in partnership on over 1000 programmes in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Concern Worldwide
Concern works towards the alleviation and elimination of poverty among people living in extreme or absolute poverty in the poorest countries of the world.
Christian Aid Jobs
Christian Aid works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
Oxfam International Vacancies
Oxfam International is an international group of 11 autonomous non-government organizations working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty. This page links to the vacancy page of all the Oxfam offices around the world.
Ethical Careers Service from People & Planet
Looking for a career change, or just thinking about setting up an office re-cycling scheme? Whether you are a student, graduate, careers service, student union or other organization, the Ethical Careers Service has something to offer you.
Plan UK Vacancies
Plan is a child-centred community development agency with no religious and political affiliations, enabling families and communities in the poorest countries to make lasting improvements to the lives of their children.
Vacancies from Save the Children
Save the Children works to create a better world for children in 70 countries, helping children in the world's most impoverished communities. Save the Children advertises both UK and global vacancies here.
Survival International
Survival has supporters in 82 countries and aims to utilise public opinion and public action to secure long-term improvement for the cultures of tribal peoples. It works for tribal peoples rights through education, advocacy and campaigns, and also provides a platform for tribal people to address the world.
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian aid agency, currently working in 92 countries and helping over 73 million people in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice. They have dozens of vacancies overseas as well as in their head office in the UK.
CARE USA
CARE is one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations, reaching tens of millions of people each year in more than 60 countries across the world.
AlertNet.org
AlertNet.org, funded by the Reuters Foundation, provides live international news from and an extensive section of job vacancies and news from more than 180 member NGOs.
DB Classifieds from The Communication Initiative
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. A listing of open posts in development and communication organisations is available through their DB Classifieds page.
DevNet Jobs
The DevNet Jobs Site lists job opportunities available in the not-for-profit sector in India and other countries.
Department for International Development, UK
The Department for International Development (DfID) is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. Details of employment opportunities with DfID, in the UK and overseas, as part of a course of study or practical attachment on a longer-term basis.
Environmentjob.co.uk
A resource for great jobs and volunteering opportunities in the environmental sector. Environmentjob.co.uk aims to make it possible for environmental organisations, however small, to advertise nationally.
Expertist.net The knowledge-sharing network for international development experts, Expertist.net covers all market sectors and professional functions. It is a fast, topical and low-cost medium for offering or tracing expert services.
Hacesfalta.org
A Spanish portal created by Canal Solidario to offer a jobs service, specialized for NGOs, and to facilitate and promote volunteering. Organizations can add their job vacancies and volunteering needs and people can look for these opportunities through the database, specifying different interest areas.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch's areas of special initiative include academic freedom, business and human rights, free expression, prisons, and human rights in the United States.
Mango
Mango runs a register of carefully selected skilled and experienced finance professionals available to work on relief and development projects in the field. It also provides agencies with access to a stream of qualified finance professionals.
ReliefWeb Vacancies
The ReliefWeb Vacancies section lists up to 100 new jobs per week in the humanitarian and development sectors, and the weekly vacancies email is sent to over 25,000 subscribers.
Tearfund
Tearfund is an evangelical Christian relief and development charity working through local partners to bring help and hope to communities in need around the world.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
World Service Enquiry
Are you looking for meaningful work for peace, justice and development? Are you keen to work overseas in a 'third world country' to help in whatever way you can? Are you anxious to find out whether your skill and experience is sufficient to apply successfully? If your answer to any or all of these questions is YES, World Service Enquiry can help you.
Volunteer Sites
A list of organisations who offer listings for volunteer positions, or who are recruiting volunteers themselves.
Amnesty International Urgent Acton Network
The purpose of Urgent Actions is to rapidly produce an internationally coordinated mass protest, to stop or prevent serious human rights violations.
Centre for Alternative Technology
Educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds. We test, live with and display strategies and tools for doing this.
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is the largest international network of environmental groups in the world.
VSO
VSO sends skilled and experienced volunteers to work with communities in the developing world and campaigns in Britain to change attitudes towards the south
Action Without Borders, Inc - Idealist.org
Action Without Borders maintains Idealist.org, the richest online directory of non-profit information, with information provided by 25,000 organizations worldwide. It has thousands of volunteer opportunities in your community and around the world, and a list of organizations that can help you volunteer abroad.
AidCamps International
AidCamps International is a non-profit organization that runs short-term voluntary work development aid projects overseas.
CARE Corps
CARE Corps is an educational travel and hands-on service learning program for people interested in learning about sustainable solutions to poverty in Latin America. CARE Corps volunteers work in partnership with local people in a variety of community development projects. This unique program offers exciting hands-on work opportunities, meaningful cultural exchange with a Peruvian community, and enriching educational sessions about global issues and CARE.
Geekcorps
Geekcorps is a US-based non-profit organization that places international technical volunteers in developing nations. We contribute to local IT projects while transferring the technical skills.
Global Volunteers Global Volunteers work projects are directed by local leaders, sustainable development at it's best. We focus on rural issues, which are often over-looked. 15 years of service worldwide. Short-term volunteer programs worldwide include building homes, nurturing children, providing health care, sharing business expertise, and teaching basic subjects.
Haces Falta
A Spanish portal created by Canal Solidario to offer a jobs service, specialized for NGOs, and to facilitate and promote volunteering. Organizations can add their job vacancies and volunteering needs and people can look for these opportunities through the database specifying different interest areas. They also have a section to exchange experiences and debate issues regarding volunteering.
Peace Brigades International Colombia Project
PBI Colombia protects threatened human rights defenders and displaced communities by maintaining teams of international observers in Colombia.
UNITeS
The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) is a global volunteer initiative, led by the UN Volunteers programme that allows volunteers from any country to give their skills and time to extend the opportunities of the digital revolution to developing countries. Volunteers under the UNITeS umbrella come from either from developing countries (the "South") or from industrialized countries (the "North"). There are also national Volunteers, i.e. those serving in their own countries. In addition, online volunteers are an integral part of the UNITeS community as well, supporting their onsite counterpart volunteers.
Volunteer Abroad
Comprehensive listing of volunteering opportunities, with links to several other sites. "GoAbroad.com was launched to fill an information void in the area of international student travel. GoAbroad.com was conceptualized to provide a one-stop information center for students wishing to travel internationally. The site was created to link prospective travelers with organizations providing international opportunities."
The purpose of Urgent Actions is to rapidly produce an internationally coordinated mass protest, to stop or prevent serious human rights violations.
Centre for Alternative Technology
Educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds. We test, live with and display strategies and tools for doing this.
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is the largest international network of environmental groups in the world.
VSO
VSO sends skilled and experienced volunteers to work with communities in the developing world and campaigns in Britain to change attitudes towards the south
Action Without Borders, Inc - Idealist.org
Action Without Borders maintains Idealist.org, the richest online directory of non-profit information, with information provided by 25,000 organizations worldwide. It has thousands of volunteer opportunities in your community and around the world, and a list of organizations that can help you volunteer abroad.
AidCamps International
AidCamps International is a non-profit organization that runs short-term voluntary work development aid projects overseas.
CARE Corps
CARE Corps is an educational travel and hands-on service learning program for people interested in learning about sustainable solutions to poverty in Latin America. CARE Corps volunteers work in partnership with local people in a variety of community development projects. This unique program offers exciting hands-on work opportunities, meaningful cultural exchange with a Peruvian community, and enriching educational sessions about global issues and CARE.
Geekcorps
Geekcorps is a US-based non-profit organization that places international technical volunteers in developing nations. We contribute to local IT projects while transferring the technical skills.
Global Volunteers Global Volunteers work projects are directed by local leaders, sustainable development at it's best. We focus on rural issues, which are often over-looked. 15 years of service worldwide. Short-term volunteer programs worldwide include building homes, nurturing children, providing health care, sharing business expertise, and teaching basic subjects.
Haces Falta
A Spanish portal created by Canal Solidario to offer a jobs service, specialized for NGOs, and to facilitate and promote volunteering. Organizations can add their job vacancies and volunteering needs and people can look for these opportunities through the database specifying different interest areas. They also have a section to exchange experiences and debate issues regarding volunteering.
Peace Brigades International Colombia Project
PBI Colombia protects threatened human rights defenders and displaced communities by maintaining teams of international observers in Colombia.
UNITeS
The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) is a global volunteer initiative, led by the UN Volunteers programme that allows volunteers from any country to give their skills and time to extend the opportunities of the digital revolution to developing countries. Volunteers under the UNITeS umbrella come from either from developing countries (the "South") or from industrialized countries (the "North"). There are also national Volunteers, i.e. those serving in their own countries. In addition, online volunteers are an integral part of the UNITeS community as well, supporting their onsite counterpart volunteers.
Volunteer Abroad
Comprehensive listing of volunteering opportunities, with links to several other sites. "GoAbroad.com was launched to fill an information void in the area of international student travel. GoAbroad.com was conceptualized to provide a one-stop information center for students wishing to travel internationally. The site was created to link prospective travelers with organizations providing international opportunities."
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