Resources
Other places worth checking
A small shelf of communities, boards, and trackers worth reading alongside this index.
Dev Jobs Tanzania is one source. It is not the only one worth checking. The list below points outward — to peer communities, adjacent boards, and signals about where new development funding is moving. The site has no commercial relationship with anything listed here.
Peer communities & newsletters
Independent communities run by and for laid-off development workers. Lower noise, higher signal than open social platforms.
- Career Pivot (Substack)
Substack newsletter (9,000+ subscribers as of 2025) with curated lists of organizations still hiring plus practical advice on transitioning out of the development sector. Search Substack for the current edition.
- Devex Career Hub
Long-running global development jobs board. Broader than Tanzania, but the cadence and the curation are credible.
- USAIDStopWork tracker
Crowd-sourced tracker of layoffs, programme closures, and recovery efforts since the January 2025 stop-work order.
Tanzania & East Africa specifics
Local-first sources worth checking alongside this index. Each emphasises a different slice of the regional sector.
- ReliefWeb — Tanzania
OCHA's humanitarian feed, Tanzania-filtered. Useful for emergency and recovery roles outside the traditional NGO portals.
- UN Inspira
UN Secretariat careers portal. Filter by location for Tanzania-specific roles. Some openings never reach the agency-specific portals.
- East African Community
Regional intergovernmental organisation, Arusha-based. Career openings appear under their Vacancies / Notices section, occasionally underadvertised elsewhere.
Funding-shift signal
Where new money is moving as the post-USAID landscape settles. Watching these helps anticipate which orgs will be hiring in 6–18 months.
- Gates Foundation grants
Searchable grants database. Health, agriculture, financial inclusion. New grant announcements often precede new programme staffing rounds.
- Wellcome Trust funding
UK biomedical and global health funder; growing footprint in African research institutions.
- EU INTPA programme news
European Union international partnerships — bilateral and multi-country development funding announcements.
Career-transition support
Practical resources for moving sideways or out, when the sector itself can't absorb everyone.
- 80,000 Hours career guide
Long-form, evidence-led career planning. Strongest on the strategic question of where mission-driven labour produces the most value next.
- LinkedIn Tanzania jobs
Adjacent private-sector roles. Use the saved-search and alerts. Worth the noise if you're considering pivots into private-sector public health, agtech, or impact consulting.
Send a note via the footer form below. The list is curated by hand and grows as readers point out what we missed.