About us
Who we are
HumanSurge provides a platform – for opportunities, relationships, and knowledge – that empowers all our clients, candidates and organizations, to be successful. We do this by providing tools and services to help organizations make the right decisions about who to hire. We help develop and promote professionals seeking short-term career opportunities in the humanitarian sector, as well as those linking relief, rehabilitation and development.
We provide a roster of over 5,700 professionals who are available to fly anywhere in the world; some with as little as 24 hours notice. Our platform allows professionals to signal their availability for deployment anywhere in the world, thereby enabling organizations to select specialized response teams overnight. We support professionals develop their career through provision of expert advice, including mentoring and CV writing.
Our specialised service provides unparalleled focus to serve organizations needing to rapidly fill vacancies in the humanitarian sector, as well as organizations linking relief, rehabilitation and development, as soon as possible. Temporary staff are our speciality. We also have strategic alliances with professional associations and universities to engage in profile verification. Building trust in the accuracy of a professional’s profile adds value for recruiters.
Functional occupations in our roster include:
- Administration and Finance (Program Support)
- Advocacy
- Camp Coordination and Camp Management(CCCM)
- Care Practices / Psychosocial
- Cash Based Interventions
- Cluster Coordination
- Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
- Early Recovery
- Education
- Emergency Telecommunications / It
- Environment
- Food Security and Livelihood
- Gender and Gender - Based Violence (GBV)
- General Coordination and Management
- Human Resources (HR)
- Health
- Information Management
- Innovation
- Logistics
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL)
- Needs-Assessments
- Nutrition
- Protection / Human Rights
- Safety and Security
- Shelter
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
We are driven by social impact, not by profit, to help affected populations and human development.