Work for us
At Development Initiatives we are always keen to work with talented individuals who share our passion and vision.
We provide great benefits to support a happy and thriving workforce. Staff wellbeing is a priority for DI, and we go the extra mile to support people’s passions and interests both in work and beyond. This might be flexible working to support your lifestyle, or paid leave to support you with volunteering or additional studies. We are a Living Wage and Disability Confident employer in the UK and apply these principles to our staff worldwide.
View our recruitment policy, Candidate GDPR privacy notice, and details of our Guaranteed Interview Scheme.
Benefits of working at DI
Flexible working
Our flexible working policies support the wellbeing of our staff as well as our commitment to equality and diversity. As a member of the team you could benefit from homeworking, flexible hours, and our enhanced policies around sick pay and maternity, paternity and adoption leave. We also offer enhanced holiday allowances, which can be further increased with long service and adjusted to suit you using our buy/sell holiday scheme.
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Reward and remuneration
DI’s reward and remuneration package is shaped by:
- Fair pay – based on individual contribution, skills and expertise, the role and market
- Profit share – to reward collaboration towards our collective success
- Benefits – to provide added value for individuals, our communities and for our environment
- Recognition – to celebrate achievements, innovation and to provide development opportunities
Our global talent market is broad and to attract and retain talent while ensuring fair pay, we have global career levels with local pay ranges. The global career levels allow us to establish competencies for a role wherever it is based and supports career development in a fair and transparent way. Local pay ranges are developed using external sources to job match and benchmark our roles to ensure that we are paying salaries that are competitive for the relevant market in which that role exists. This allows us to have a local market-competitive pay framework that is simple and transparent. Contractual arrangements within this framework will differ depending on market conditions and funding.
Since 2013 we have been an accredited Living Wage Employer in the UK and apply the same principles to salaries across the world.
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Supportive environment
We provide the conditions you need to excel in your role and career. We offer paid leave to volunteer, donate blood and study, and we support staff in paying professional course and membership fees. Our offices are informal environments offering a range of location-specific amenities from cycle-to-work schemes to free fruit, and you can expect to work with colleagues as passionate as you are about ending poverty. We are a friendly organisation that respects how individuals think, work, live and identify.
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.Our values
Our values define us, the way we work and how we interact with others.
People-centred
We are supportive, friendly and considerate, with mutual respect for how people think, work, live and identify so that together we thrive.
Purpose-driven
Everything we do is motivated by our shared desire to contribute to positive change in the world.
Transparent
Openness and honesty are at the heart of how we work, driving high levels of trust, as well as fair and ethical practice.
Latest vacancies
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