November 6, 2003 | Read Time: 4 minutes
JOB MARKET
By Jeffrey Klineman
In addition to Philanthropy Careers’ job listings, many other resources are available
for the international nonprofit-job hunter. Job Listings
Dev-Zone. This site, focused on international development and run by New Zealand’s Development Resource Center, offers weekly e-mail delivery of job openings for subscribers, along with discussion groups.
Eldis. This site, maintained by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, in England, offers information on opportunities at groups focused on economic development.
Idealist. This nonprofit career site, maintained by Action Without Borders, in New York, includes international job listings.
InterAction. The Web site of this umbrella organization for international humanitarian and development organizations with headquarters in the United States lists jobs for its more than 160 member charities. InterAction also publishes a pair of print resources for finding development work: Monday Developments, a bimonthly newsletter discussing the international scene, which contains many job ads, and InterAction Member Profiles, which includes descriptions of the umbrella group’s member organizations. A one-year subscription to Monday Developments costs $75, and InterAction Member Profiles, which includes both a book and a CD-ROM, costs $81. They can be purchased through the InterAction Web site, or from the InterAction Finance Department at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 701, Washington, D.C. 20036, or by calling (202) 667-8227.
International Jobs Center. This Web site sponsors the International Careers Employment Weekly, which features an online database of new jobs to go with the 500 weekly positions it advertises in its print publication. Some current postings are available on the center’s Web site, and the entire database can be viewed with a paid subscription. A one-year subscription to both the newsletter and the Web database is $149 and available at half-price for students and recent college graduates. Subscriptions can be ordered through the center’s Web site, by writing to the center at 1088 Middle River Road, Stanardsville, Va. 22973 or by calling (800) 291-4618.
Monster.com. In addition to listing some international nonprofit jobs, this large career board also offers advice on getting work overseas.
OpportunityKnocks.org. This career site, run by the Management Center, in San Francisco, offers hundreds of listings, searchable by geographic locale.
UK Fundraising. This site, which tracks the British fund-raising industry, lists relevant jobs in Britain.
Society for International Development. The Web site for the group’s Washington chapter lists its entire membership, which allows users to link to those members’ Web sites to gain access to their employment listings.
General Information
Many colleges and universities serve as broad repositories of information about international work. Here are three of the best:
The University of Michigan International Center offers a large list of work-abroad Web sites, and allows users to index them by type of work or by country. Also offers a number of handy tips for preparing to go abroad.
The Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs offers fact sheets with job-search, interviewing, and negotiation advice, and links to several international-career resources.
The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs has done a large research project categorizing careers in international relations that covers nearly every profession and how it relates to working abroad. You can access this information via the Web site of Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
Travel and Work Permits
These resources are useful for finding out about potential dangers in a given region, what kinds of documentation workers will need to satisfy visa requirements, and immunization.
U.S. State Department Travel Advisories This government site offers regularly updated information on safety, crime, health, and political instability in specific countries.
Work visas. Employers are usually responsible for obtaining work permits for their arriving workers, but to learn about a specific country’s requirements, check with http://www.embassy.org, www.embassyworld.com, or www.workpermit.com.
Survival Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad, Fourth Edition, by L. Robert Kohls (Nicholas Brealey Publishing/Intercultural Press, 2001, $16.95). This book tells readers about adapting to cultural differences and ways of perceiving the world, offering advice on dealing with culture shock and developing communications skills.
Impact Publications. This site offers a series of “Culture Shock” books that are guides to different countries, as well as offering tips for finding international work.
