Finding a job that aligns with your personal values shouldn’t feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you're passionate about climate justice, public health, education equity, or civic technology, you can find great opportunities at organizations working on these issues - as long as you know where to look. This guide breaks down the best job boards specifically built for mission-driven work, helping you cut through the noise and quickly find job opportunities where you can make a difference.
There's several large job boards in the nonprofit and social impact space, however there are also a lot of great resources that are focused on specific niches such as specific issue areas (Climate Change, democracy, etc), job types (Design Gigs for Good), and locations (state specific or remote jobs). Before you get overwhelmed, it's best to understand the landscape of job boards and find the few ones that best align with what you're looking for in your next role.
National Nonprofit Job Boards
- Idealist - Idealist is one of the largest nonprofit job boards in the US. In addition to jobs, they are a great resource for internships and voluteer opportunities as well. They currently have more than 2,300 active job postings on the site.
- Philantropy News Digest Job Board - Candid, a nonprofit that provides comprehensive data and insights about the social sector, posts nonprofit job opportunities on the Philanthropy News Digest job board free of charge.
- Work for Good - Work for Good was one of the first job boards focused exclusively on mission-driven careers and has 100's of job postings each month.
- NonProfit-Jobs.org - This is a great place to look if you're looking for a high-level director or Executive Director roles at a nonprofit since this job board is hosted by ExecSearches.com.
Nonprofit Technology Job Boards
- Tech Jobs for Good - Tech Jobs for Good helps job seekers find tech jobs at mission-driven organizations working across one of our 12 impact areas - ranging from clean energy and climate change to poverty alleviation and education.
- Fast Forward - Fast Forward runs an accelerator program that has helped over 100 tech nonprofits scale their impact. Their job board lists jobs from over 700 tech nonprofits around the world and is a great resource for finding organizations working on meaningful work.
- All Hands - All Hands runs a great job board for civic engagement, social impact, advocacy, and campaigning organizations across the US.
- NTEN Job Board - NTEN mission is to help nonprofits succeed through through the skillful and equitable use of technology. They run a large conference each year called the Nonprofit Technology Conference that helps nonprofit staff learn more about technology best practices and meet with their peers. When this article was published, they only had 15 job posts, however all were recently posted.
Other Niche Social Impact Job Boards
- 80,000 Hours - 80,000 Hours aims to help people use their careers to solve the world’s most pressing problems. They provide deep research and resources on top problems and how you can use your career to solve them. They currently have around 800 jobs on their site.
- Climatebase - Discover jobs at thousands of organizations working on climate solutions. Climatebase also runs a fellowship program for ambitious mission-driven professionals who want to shift to a career in climate.
- Climate Tech List - Climate Tech List offers a general job board for a range of organizations working on climate tech.
- Democracy Jobs - Democracy Jobs aggregates open roles from across the voters first movement. The website updates daily with new opportunities to work at voting and election reform organizations.
- EdSurge - EdSurge is a great resource for finding job openings at EdTech organizations.
State & Location Specific Nonprofit Job Boards
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