Development Work
Sector overview
- Charity and voluntary work (Prospects)
Typical job profiles
- Graduate jobs in charity and voluntary work (Prospects)
- International aid/development worker job profile (Prospects)
Useful online resources
- International Service Website
- Rough Guide to a Better World
- United Nations Careers - useful articles about applying to the UN as well as a job search
- So you want to work in International Development? Guardian article
- Human Rights Careers
- Human Rights Websites (Word document)
- People and Planet UK student campaigning organisation
- Relief Web Useful information resources
- World Service Enquiry Working/Volunteering in developing countries. Features Guide to Volunteering for Development
- British Council International Development Opportunities
- Scotland's International Development Alliance
Job sites and specialist recruiters / volunteer opportunities
- CAFOD
- Charity Job
- Christian Aid
- Concern
- DevNetJobs - International Development jobs site
- DFID
- Humentum
- UN Volunteers
- Idealist
- NGO Abroad International Volunteering and Careers
- Overseas Development International Fellowship Scheme
- Oxfam
- Plan International
- Save the Children
- VSO Leading international development organisation including International Citizen Service (ICS) funded the by the UK government
- 2 Way Development
- Volunteering Matters
- World Bank Internship Opportunities
- World Vision
Training and education
- Institute of Development Studies Centre for research and teaching on international development
- Studying Development Includes a directory of courses (international)
- Eldis Information Gateway
- RedR UK
Professional bodies
- The British Council
- Charities Advisory Trust
- Overseas Development Institute
- Department for International Development
- Development Studies Association The Professional Associaton for Development Research and Knowledge
- BOND British Overseas NGOs for Development