A lens on the humanitarian sector
Every job post on ReliefWeb since 2011, read by a language model and tagged against 65 topics. Topic trends are shown as a share of all posts in each year, so the overall rise and fall in the number of job posts does not read as a rise or fall in a topic.
Pick a group, then up to six topics.
Core means the topic or theme is central to the role, usually named in the title or purpose. Core or duty adds jobs where the topic is a substantial part of the work but not its main subject: broader, and less reliable. Core is the safer default. Four topics are counted as core only: Partnerships & partner capacity, Needs assessment & analysis, Safety & security management, and Compliance, audit & risk. They are part of so many roles that counting them as a duty would add noise. Interoperability & data sharing is mostly a duty rather than a job in itself, so read it as core or duty.
Junior or senior? Staff or consultant? UN or NGO? Experience, job type and career category are what the advertiser chose on ReliefWeb's posting form. Organisation type starts from ReliefWeb's label for each organisation and splits NGOs into international, locally based and regional, using each NGO's home country and where it hires.
Where jobs are advertised, and how that has shifted. An advert listing several countries counts in each. This is a first version: breakdowns by topic and organisation for each country will be added.
The 150 organisations that post most on ReliefWeb. Posts by several organisations count once for each.
Job posts on ReliefWeb by this organisation
Topic share in this organisation's posts ÷ share across all posts. 2.0× means twice the sector rate. Topics with fewer than 10 of its posts are left out.
The short version. The full methodology covers sources, checks and how to cite; the glossary defines every term and topic.