Development sector job discovery

The right role, without the job-title guessing game.

Development, policy and impact employers all describe the same job differently. Tell us about your degree or your career so far, and we'll translate it into plain terms, then surface roles that actually fit — pulled from job boards, career pages, and postings that never make it onto LinkedIn.

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The problem

Job search fails here for structural reasons — not because you're searching badly.

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.

The algorithm keeps guessing wrong

Recruiting platforms are built for industries with stable job titles. Point one at a mixed nonprofit, government and media sector, or at a career built somewhere else entirely, and it recommends roles you'd never take and buries the ones you would.

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 land in the same matching engine. 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 match you against 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 describe roles and people

Nothing hidden. Here's the whole list.

Every profile and every posting gets described using exactly these terms, nothing broader and nothing hidden behind an algorithm. That's what makes it possible to explain why something matched, not just tell you that it did.

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 the classifier can only settle from the JD body

How it works

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 match shows exactly which parts line up — function, sector, organisation type, seniority — and for career-switchers, the bridge story plus the gaps it doesn't paper over.

  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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