Working at the Danish Refugee Council
Careers, recruitment routes and current opportunities with the Danish Refugee Council
Explore Danish Refugee Council careers in displacement, protection and humanitarian response, with role insights, application guidance and current vacancies.
Overview
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish humanitarian organisation working with refugees, internally displaced people and host communities. Its portfolio covers protection, shelter and settlement, economic recovery, camp coordination and camp management, and humanitarian mine action and armed violence reduction through the Danish Demining Group.
DRC operates in conflict affected and displacement heavy contexts, and its vacancy pattern follows those crises. Country and regional offices in the Middle East, East and Central Africa, West Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America advertise most of the roles, with a smaller headquarters presence in Copenhagen.
Contracts are typically fixed-term and grant funded, with national posts filled locally and international posts filled through the global roster and open recruitment. Emergency response also generates short-notice deployments for experienced staff.
Organization profile
DRC is a protection-led organisation, and protection analysis informs work across sectors rather than sitting in one department. Candidates who can show how they applied protection principles inside a shelter, cash or livelihoods programme tend to interview well.
Working conditions in many duty stations are demanding, with security constraints, rotational arrangements and non-family postings. The organisation is direct about this in its notices, and applicants should read the duty station classification and contract length carefully. Accountability to affected populations, and experience with community feedback mechanisms, feature routinely in selection criteria.
Recruitment at a glance
80 vacancies advertised in the last 12 months in our database.
Grades and levels
| Level | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| 5-9 years | 29 |
| 0-2 years | 28 |
| 3-4 years | 20 |
| 10+ years | 3 |
Contract types
| Contract | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Job | 76 |
| Consultancy | 4 |
Where the roles are
| Duty station country | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Venezuela | 37 |
| Uganda | 12 |
| Colombia | 8 |
| Sudan | 4 |
| Ukraine | 4 |
| Afghanistan | 2 |
| Kenya | 2 |
| Libya | 2 |
| Palestine | 1 |
| Somalia | 1 |
How to apply
Apply through DRC's recruitment portal. Check whether the post is national or international before you invest time, and note the duty station classification and any rotation arrangement.
Show displacement context experience concretely, such as the population groups you worked with, caseloads, the sectors you delivered, the donors funding the work and the security environment you operated in. For protection roles, reference the frameworks and case management standards you used.
Assessment is competency-based, often with a written scenario for programme and management posts. References, an for some roles, background screening, follow shortlisting. Emergency roles move quickly, so keep your profile current if you want to be considered for surge deployments.
Salary and conditions
UN Global Jobs does not publish salary, allowance, benefits or contract-condition guidance for Danish Refugee Council. Pay and conditions differ by grade, contract type and duty station, and they change over time. The authoritative statements are the ones in the vacancy notice and in the offer made by the organisation, which is where you should verify them. Where a vacancy notice states pay, we reproduce it on the listing; where it does not, ask the recruiting team before making commitments.
Sources
Vacancy figures on this page are calculated from notices published by the Danish Refugee Council and collected by UN Global Jobs. Organisational facts are taken from DRC's own published material.