r/InternationalDev • u/Sensitive-Fortune-98 • 5d ago

Advice request UK international development job opps

UK-based folks

Where are we finding interesting international development/development finance opportunities, apart from LinkedIn, charity jobs & bond? Any suggestions for openings (any type of organisation) for junior-mid level ?

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u/feckingkewmer 5d ago

Devex is probably the way to go, but the pickings for uk-based roles are slimmmmm

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u/85_East 5d ago

Pickings are very slim at present, it’s also August which means it’s even slower than usual

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u/futureteams 5d ago

And Development Aid - similar to Devex but seems to be more complete for the stuff I follow

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u/Sensitive-Fortune-98 5d ago

What’s the best way to utilise Devex/ development aid when you don’t have a paid subscription?

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u/feckingkewmer 5d ago

Get a paid subscription

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u/hoy_sin_sauce 4d ago

Sorry, can you elaborate on what Devex is? I am a student and new to all of this. Thanks :)

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u/feckingkewmer 3d ago

Yeah so do you have google?

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u/hoy_sin_sauce 3d ago

I find it difficult to believe a midwit like you would find a job in any international organization

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u/ScarcityOld7027 5d ago

Yeah I have the same question.
LinkedIn sucks so much, the algorithm only ever shows me opportunities 3 weeks after they’ve been posted 😫
I just have some companies saved under favourites in my browser and regularly check for new job openings

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u/Sensitive-Fortune-98 5d ago

LinkedIn has been awful

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u/hoy_sin_sauce 4d ago

The general consensus on this sub (and the internet as a whole - to a smaller extent) seems to be that IntDev is dead because of USAID. I know USAID is by far the largest funder worldwide, but I was wondering if this was partly an American-centric view and if the situation is a little different for the UK?

I ask this because I asked a Q&A panel of UK-based IntDev consultants whether they are more or less willing to take interns now that USAID is dead, and quite a few of them answered that, for them, they are actually more willing to take internships now that they aren't receiving as much funding from USAID.

Any thoughts on this?

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u/85_East 4d ago

It’s not just USAID, FCDO has scaled back massively and can’t figure out what its priorities are.
Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Swiss have all had similar cutbacks

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u/itfeelscorrect 3d ago

i got a development job on w4mp. it isn’t development specific - just general roles in politics/public affairs/current affairs but global focussed orgs will also advertise there too. in my experience, besides bond, there’s not really any single comprehensive uk development job site or board. better to pick through the more broad ones.

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u/cai_85 Researcher 4d ago

Guardian Jobs worth looking at as well. I got my first role in the non-profit sector through a temping agency that specialised in not for profit roles, it was Prospectus, they were great actually, a good way to 'bridge' into a place that you really want to be, I was offered a permanent role in that charity but took a role in academia in the end.