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The humanitarian job market, measured every 30 minutes

1,993 positions are open right now from 333 organisations in 156 countries. Since July 2024 the warehouse has recorded 50,030 postings from the ReliefWeb Jobs feed — enough to watch a sector contract, shift geography and change the way it hires.

Data updated Oct 28, 2026, 1:03 PM

Open positions
1,993

Published and not yet closed · weekly intake, 12 weeks

New in the last 7 days
723 +0%

vs 721 the week before

Closing within 7 days
911

46% of open positions

Organisations hiring now
333 +19%

Change: distinct recruiters, last 30 vs previous 30 days

Median days open
14days

Half of postings close within this · middle 50 %: 10–26 days

New postings per day, last 90 days

Bars are daily counts; the line is a trailing 7-day average. Weekends are real zeros.

The last four weeks averaged 588 postings a week, +76% on the four weeks before.

Closing pipeline, next 30 days

Open positions by application deadline.

The busiest deadline is October 31, 2026 with 211 positions closing — a good day to have applications in.

Who is hiring right now

Organisations with the most open positions.

The three largest recruiters account for 21% of open positions; the remaining 333 organisations share the rest.

Open positions by source

ReliefWeb and UN agency career portals. A portal posting that is also on ReliefWeb counts once, as ReliefWeb.

Open positions by career category

ReliefWeb only

Share of open positions; a posting can carry one category.

Program/Project Management alone is 48% of open positions. Operational support roles (finance, logistics, HR, ICT) add another 27%.

Open positions by theme

ReliefWeb only

Sector themes tagged by the publisher; not every posting is tagged.

Experience required

ReliefWeb only

Share of open positions by years of experience.

Only 22% of open positions accept 0–2 years of experience; 46% ask for five years or more.

Type of engagement

ReliefWeb only

Share of open positions.

Data updated Oct 28, 2026, 1:03 PM · showing a cached snapshot