Impact career navigation

Navigate your impact career, not just your next job.

Your CV shows where you've been. It doesn't say where you want to go next. Tell us your degree, your experience, or the change you want to make — and we'll map it to roles across LinkedIn Jobs, job boards, employer career pages, and the channels that usually get missed.

You have agency. We assist the analysis — you set the boundaries, the pace, and the direction. We never box you in.

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The promise

How this works for you

You define your mission

Know your next move? Skip ahead. Still exploring? We'll suggest directions you can edit, reject, or reshape anytime. You're never boxed into a category.

Boundaries that flex, not boxes that trap

Sectors and functions grow as the market changes — and as your interests do. Our vocabulary evolves when real evidence says it should, not by guessing or forcing you into rigid labels.

A search that remembers, but doesn't assume

We check in at the pace you choose — weekly, fortnightly, or monthly. We learn what you like, but we ask before we assume. Adjacent suggestions always come with an easy 'no thanks.'

The problem

Job search was built for employers, not for people navigating change.

And it fails because your next role isn't in your CV — it's in what you want to do next. The right move for you might be a pivot, not a promotion. We built this for people who want agency, not just another application form.

The same job, a different name everywhere

Programme manager here, project officer there. MEAL in one posting, M&E in the next. Add donor-invented titles and consultancy briefs with no title at all, and keyword alerts built for stable job titles simply stop working.

Hours lost, one tab at a time

LinkedIn, three or four niche boards, a handful of org career pages, a WhatsApp or mailing list — most weeks, and you still miss what's posted somewhere else. People already spend hours a week doing this before they've opened a single application.

Built for exact matches, not for pivots

Recruiting platforms are designed for employers who want someone who already has the title. Point one at a mixed nonprofit, government and media sector, or at a career built somewhere else entirely, and it misses the roles you'd take and pushes the ones you wouldn't.

No single list of who's even hiring

Multilaterals, ministries, NGOs, foundations, think tanks, impact investors, mission-driven media and CSR teams all hire for this work. No job board filter covers that whole list, and the boards that specialise in this sector only see a slice of it.

Two doors

One system. Two ways in.

Both paths lead to the same map. What differs is the story we read to get you there.

I trained in this field

Development Studies, MPP / MPA, international affairs, humanitarian action, social policy.

The pain
Your streams, coursework and thesis describe the work precisely — in language no vacancy uses. Keyword and designation alerts miss the roles you are actually built for.
What we do
We compile your streams and evidence into the same terms employers actually use, then surface roles on that basis, not on job titles.

I'm coming from another field

Journalism, consulting, tech, finance, design, law, operations, teaching, corporate strategy.

The pain
You have the real skills under the wrong labels, and nothing bridges your previous duties to development functions. Filters read your last job title and stop there.
What we do
We read what you actually did in your last field, map it honestly onto development work, and tell you both the bridges that hold and the gaps that don't.

How we translate

The shared vocabulary, in plain sight

Job postings and CVs speak different dialects. These are the terms we use to translate between them — not to label you. The vocabulary is open by design: it grows as the sector changes, and you decide which parts belong to your next move.

Functions

10

  • Programme / project management
  • MERL
  • Policy
  • Applied research
  • Grants & fundraising
  • Partnerships
  • Technical advisory
  • Strategy & consulting
  • Ops & grants management
  • Comms & knowledge management

Sectors

12

  • Health
  • Education
  • WASH
  • Agriculture & livelihoods
  • Climate
  • Gender
  • Governance
  • Financial inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Migration
  • Social protection
  • Urban & infrastructure

Organisation types

14

  • Multilateral
  • Bilateral donor
  • Government
  • INGO / NGO
  • Foundation
  • Think tank / research
  • Consulting
  • Impact investor / DFI
  • Social enterprise
  • Private developmental
  • Corporate CSR / ESG
  • Media & journalism
  • Academic & training
  • Hybrid / other

Seniority

4

  • Entry
  • Mid
  • Senior
  • Lead

Geography mode

3

  • HQ
  • Regional
  • Country

What in-scope means

Mission and work, not legal form.

Journalism is the hardest edge, so we use it as the worked example. The same in / out / review logic runs on CSR units, consultancies and private developmental firms.

In scope

  • Public-interest, development, climate, rights and accountability beats
  • Nonprofit or mission-owned outlets and grant-funded desks
  • Solutions journalism roles inside development programmes

Out by default

  • Lifestyle, entertainment and sports roles with no public-interest content
  • Commercial brand or PR work wearing an impact label
  • Generic newsroom production jobs with no beat overlap

Sent to review

  • One social-affairs desk inside a commercial masthead
  • Impact-veneer startups and atypical multi-entity hosts
  • Anything we can only settle from the job description itself

What happens once you're in

Four steps, no black box.

  1. 01

    Translate your evidence

    Resume, syllabus, LinkedIn paste, testimonials, a stray PDF. We turn them into a plain profile you can correct — your edits are the source of truth.

  2. 02

    Find roles that actually fit

    Career pages, government portals, humanitarian feeds, consultancy ToRs and posts. Structured for reading in-app, with the original source link always in front.

  3. 03

    See why it matched

    Every suggestion shows which parts line up — function, sector, organisation type, seniority — and for career-switchers, the bridge story plus the gaps it doesn't paper over. You can override anything.

  4. 04

    Act on it

    Track saved, applied, interview and outcome in one pipeline, and get a weekly digest instead of a feed that demands daily attendance.

Waiting list

Join the waiting list.

We're building the first version around a small group. Tell us which door you're coming through so early access lands with people it actually fits.

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