NGO and UN jobs: what ReliefWeb, Impactpool, Devex and UN Careers each give you

Which of the four should you check daily?

Check ReliefWeb and UN Careers daily. UN Careers postings can already be a week old by their own date. Impactpool as often as you can, because its cards carry no date. From the cards alone, comparing with yesterday's visit is how you tell what is new. Devex yourself: in our 30-day window 41 of its postings reached Oink undated, and Oink doesn't send undated Devex postings.

Here is how the four looked in Oink's own data over the 30 days to 27 September 2026, counting postings first stored in that window. "Same day" means the board's posting date matched the day Oink first stored it; "1 to 7 d" means it was already one to seven days old; "No date" means it reached Oink with no posting date. A dot means fewer than 10 postings (or none) in that cell. Postings counts only the cells shown, so the few dated Devex postings aren't in its 41. Postings whose stored text later replaced the original date are left out. The table measures how old a posting already is when a tool like ours first sees it, and says nothing about when the employer opened the role or when it closes.

One caveat on the same-day column: on boards Oink reads through its stored inventory, a posting with no date gets assigned the day it was first stored, so part of that same-day share may be that fallback. Everything below about what the numbers mean is my reading of this table.

What does ReliefWeb give you, and what does it hide?

ReliefWeb's jobs section is run by UN OCHA. The Closing soon view lists roles with deadlines near. The Remote / Roster / Roving filter on the jobs page is where remote and roster roles sit, though a remote label there still needs an eligibility check.

In our window, 96% of the 582 ReliefWeb postings arrived with the day's date; the other 4% were one to seven days old. So a ReliefWeb posting reaches Oink the day it's dated, and a daily sweep of the jobs page catches what's new. That's the strongest case for a daily check among the four. The posting date does not tell you when the role closes. The closing date is on each job page, and the Closing soon view is where to see roles near their deadline.

What does UN Careers give you, and what does it hide?

careers.un.org is the UN careers portal. The catch is in applying: you need an Inspira account, the UN's talent platform. The applicant guide on careers.un.org covers it. Make the account before you need it, so the day you find a posting goes into the application, not setup. (Oink, our pig mascot, has no Inspira account and can't make yours.)

In our window, UN Careers had 551 postings: 60% stored the day they were dated, 40% one to seven days later. Postings often arrive a few days after their date, so a role may already be a week old when a tool first shows it to you. Read the dates on the posting itself.

What does Impactpool give you, and what does it hide?

Impactpool is a career platform for jobs at international organisations, NGOs and the EU. Its careers page says it serves over 2,500 organisations, the site's own figure. Listings render without a login, and weekly email job alerts are free with a complete profile.

By volume it was the biggest of the four in our data: 1,390 postings in the window. What it hides is the date. Impactpool's listing cards carry no posting date, so in our window Oink recorded those postings without one and couldn't tell how old a role was from the card. That's the 95% in the No date column; the other 5% were dated and one to seven days old. Since late September Oink stamps each Impactpool posting with the hour it first saw it, which is not the board's date.

Open each posting that interests you and look for its deadline before you spend an evening on it.

What does Devex give you, and what does it hide?

Devex jobs hides the job text itself. Many Devex job pages read on 2 September 2026 show "This job is for Career Account members", with a 15-day free trial. The public page shows the posted and closing dates for those jobs, and the full text sits behind the account.

The second problem with Devex is ours. In our window Oink found most Devex postings through web search results, so a Devex record carried the title, employer and location from the search snippet and no date, while the full description stays behind the paid Career Account. Oink will not send a Devex posting without a date, and in our window 41 Devex postings were undated. Devex is the one board of the four you still open yourself.

What does Oink do with these four, and where does it fail?

That's how it went down. Building Oink, I was surprised that location- and field-specific boards actually exist and that not everything ends up on LinkedIn, especially for researchers. So when a new user joins, Oink works out their case and prioritises the boards that matter to them. I try to add as many as I can.

Oink pulls jobs from several public sources, removes duplicates, screens out anything that explicitly conflicts with your location, work arrangement, or seniority, then ranks the rest against your brief (and your resume, if you add one) from 0 to 5, with reasons and concerns. The four boards here are among its sources when they're switched on, reachable, and relevant to your search. The mix shifts based on how much a source supplies, how relevant it is, how often its jobs were delivered before, and its health, so no logo has to show up every day.

An Impactpool card from Oink carries the day Oink first saw it, not the board's date, so open the posting for its deadline. Devex postings mostly reached Oink without a date and weren't sent, so keep that tab yourself. The ghost-job checklist takes two minutes per posting, and the job-source guide explains why a named board can give you nothing on a given day.