Reference Guide for Job Seekers
If you are looking for a job in the nonprofit sector, we would like to help you in your search.
Web Resources for Job Seekers
The Foundation Center's Job Corner (http://www.fdncenter.org/pnd/jobs)
Features current full-time job openings at U.S. foundations and other nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit infrastructure organizations. (Also available as a free weekly e-mail bulletin.) Click on Other Job Resources for more Web sites that post job listings in the nonprofit sector.
The Foundation Center's FAQs on Nonprofit Employment (http://www.fdncenter.org/getstarted/faqs/section_4d.html)
FAQs answering questions about nonprofit employment, salaries and compensation, resume writing, and volunteer opportunities.
CharityChannel's Career Search Online (http://charitychannel.com/classifieds/cso)
Here you can search for positions by title, location, organization, classification, or by executive search firms. Updated daily.
Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/jobs)
Contains job openings in and out of academe. The most current listings are by subscription only, but prior listings are available at no charge.
Chronicle of Philanthropy (http://philanthropy.com/jobs)
Lists upper management jobs in foundations and nonprofit organizations. You can browse by position (fundraising, executive, program, and administrative) or by field. You can also perform keyword searches and sign up for a free e-mail with job listings that fit your interests.
Community Career Center (http://www.nonprofitjobs.org)
Allows you to search available job opportunities by job type, title, member affiliation, employer name, primary skill, work type/mission, and work location.
Council on Foundations Career Center (http://www.cof.org/Jobs/SearchJobs.cfm)
Provides searchable job listings at member organizations, resumes, and a library of job description templates. COF members can access the Career Center for free and non-members can subscribe for a nominal fee.
ExecSearches.com (http://www.execsearches.com/exec)
Lists executive and senior management positions. You can search the listings or browse by job function, industry, region, or keywords.
Idealist: Action Without Borders (http://www.idealist.org)
Provides searchable listings of job openings, nonprofit internships, volunteering opportunities, and career fairs. There is also a http://www.idealist.org/career.htmlNonprofit Career Center with useful advice and information for those seeking employment in the nonprofit sector.
IEG Network's Job Bank (http://www.sponsorship.com/jobbank)
Lists jobs in the sponsorship industry with salaries of $50,000 or more. You can also post your resume at this site (free registration is required to search or post jobs).
NYFA Current - Jobs (http://www.nyfa.org/opportunities.asp?type=Job&id=94&fid=6&sid=17)
A weekly arts newsletter put out by the New York Foundation for the Arts. A national listing of jobs in arts organizations is included.
The Nonprofit Times Online (http://nptjobs.nptimes.com)
Contains nonprofit job postings at all levels.
Opportunity Knocks: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds
(http://www.opportunityknocks.org/index.jsp)
Offers job postings and career resources. The advanced search allows you to search by keyword, organization type, position description and type, city, state/province, country, and job freshness.
Philanthropy News Network: Career Center (http://pnnonline.org/jobs)
Contains job postings in the nonprofit sector, primarily at the executive level.
The print versions of the CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY, NONPROFIT TIMES, and several other publications listed here also contain job listings.
Recommended Books for Jobseekers
Hamilton, Leslie and Robert Tragert. 100 BEST NONPROFITS TO WORK FOR. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Arco Publishing, 2000. Gives contact information, overviews, and budget and staff figures for 100 socially responsible nonprofit organizations.
Holman, Margaret M. and Jeanne Sigler. THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO
CAREERS IN FUND RAISING. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1998.
Concise guide to various types of fund raising careers and the skills they require. Discusses such issues as remuneration, entry level jobs, and advancement within the profession.
King, Richard M. FROM MAKING A PROFIT TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE: How To Launch Your New Career in Nonprofits. River Forest, IL: Planning/Communications, 2000. A guidebook to help in the transition from for-profit fields to nonprofit employment. Resource sections include lists of professional recruiting firms, fundraising firms, professional associations, and sources of philanthropic information.
Krannich, Ronald L. and Caryl Rae Krannich. JOBS AND CAREERS WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: Profitable Opportunities with Nonprofits. 2nd ed. Manassas Park, VA: Impact Publications, 1999. Provides an overview of the nonprofit sector, general job-hunting advice, and brief information on hundreds of domestic and international nonprofit organizations.
Lowell, Stephanie. THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL GUIDE TO CAREERS IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Explains the structure of the nonprofit field to potential jobseekers and provides chapters on specific subsectors such as arts and culture, education, health care, social services, community development, corporate community relations, and foundations.
SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTIONS IN FUNDRAISING. Alexandria, VA: Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2002. Provides sample job descriptions in many areas of fundraising including annual giving, campaigns, community relations, foundation relations, development, donor relations, special events, planned giving, and volunteers. Introduction contains articles that give advice on writing job descriptions.
For a bibliography of other titles on careers in the nonprofit sector, see our Topical Resource List on "Working in Nonprofits," or check under the subject headings "Nonprofit organizations--employment" or "Nonprofit organizations--employment--directories" in the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature.
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