"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
Where To Find Jobs
GENERAL SEARCH
Linkedin Jobs – The essential corporate networking site has job listings, and you can see if you have a connection at the employer
Indeed – Consolidated job listings from multiple sites, with unlimited customized alerts
Idealist – Comprehensive list of jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for social and environmental good
CSR JOBS
BC CCC Members List – Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship advertises job opportunities from their member companies.
BSR Jobs – Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is the largest single employer of US-based CSR consultants. They often have internal openings.
BSR » CSR Jobs Page – BSR lists external CSR jobs on a separate page from their internal listings. This is the single best listing of CSR jobs. Several positions are compliance related.
Coro’s Careers – This page lists Canadian job postings that come to the attention of Coro Strandberg, a Canadian sustainability consultant and strategist.
Just Means – A newer player, combines social networking with well-populated jobs listings.
Net Impact – Net Impact, an association for business leaders. Great resources and job listings in their Career Center.
Social Investors Forum – The best site for Socially Responsible Investing jobs.
Food+Tech Connect – A listing of jobs in the food tech and innovation sector, many of which include sustainability.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Green Dream Jobs – Also known as SustainableBusiness.com, the preeminent site for sustainability jobs.
GreenBiz.com – This website is a good resource for information about environmental sustainability and business.
Allen & York – UK recruiters with environment and sustainability jobs worldwide.
Environment Jobs UK – Several nonprofit and public sector environmental posts in the UK.
StopDoDo – A portal for environmental and NGO related jobs. Very international. Several Africa jobs.
Eco Employ – Stronger on nonprofit environmental jobs that corporate. Downside, too many pop-ups on this site. (via Karen Seeh)
Environmental Career – These jobs are more for people with environmental degrees than MBAs. Sustainable Business – See Green Dreams above.
NON-PROFIT JOBS
NonprofitJobSource.com – This site has a powerful job searching database for positions in the US and Canada.
Work for Good – Founded as Opportunity Knocks, Work for Good includes both a powerful search engine and a resume posting option for US-based opportunities.
Bridgestar – An initiative of the Bridgespan Group, this site provides nonprofit career-matching services.
ExecSearches.com – Lists nonprofit positions from the executive to mid-level.
Tides Foundation – Based in San Francisco, Tides Foundation is an incubator for social and environmental nonprofits. They list positions for Tides and Tides grantees.
Commongood Careers – Nonprofit search firm with a listing of US-based nonprofit opportunities.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOBS
Development Aid – Impressive site. Includes a section on tenders/RFPs with a strong search engine but does not include USAID.
OneWorld – Provides listing of job opportunities in a handful of developing countries and the UK.
DevNetJobs – A volunteer driven initiative to circulate job listings.
Global Recruitment – This company is headed by Patrick Shields, an international development recruiter.
Relief Web – Disaster and relief positions.
VSO – Non-Brits often overlook VSO which opens its door to people from many nations. VSO is similar to Peace Corps but the volunteers have more pertinent work experience.
PHILANTHROPY JOBS
Foundation Center – With resource offices in major cities around the US, the Foundation Center’s Philanthropy New Digest lists jobs focused in philanthropy and fundraising.
Chronicle of Philanthropy – The Chronicle of Philanthropy lists job opportunities largely in the nonprofit and grant making arena.
Council on Foundations – This is a fee-based service of foundation focused jobs.
MMB & Associates – Martha Montag Brown recruits for philanthropy positions. Her website includes her current searches.
POLICY/PUBLIC AFFAIRS JOBS
Opportunities in Public Affairs – Most of these positions are in Washington DC.
EuroBrussels – EU related policy jobs.