People make the difference
DRS provides support for talent acquisition for roles in the international development sector. We
help you to recruit those people who will positively impact both your organization and the world.
17 years
of experience in recruitment
2000+ candidates
successfully placed
200,000+ database
of junior, mid-level, and senior professionals
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Consultant Search
The tool for sourcing local or international experts for short and
long-term donor funded projects.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
• 1-2 relevant candidates
• Confirmed availability and interest
• Negotiated financial details
• CVs tailored to donor’s requirements
CV Shortlist
The perfect solution to get the best available profiles quickly and at
an affordable rate.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
• 3 to 4 relevant candidates
• Confirmed availability and interest
• Salary negotiated
• Tailored CVs
DELIVERY TIME
Approximately 10 working days.
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Talent Hire
‘End-to-end’ recruitment solution
designed to help you to hire high quality professionals for any role.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
• 4 to 6 highly qualified candidates
• Confirmed availability and interest
• Salary negotiated
• Phone screening of shortlisted candidates
• Tailored CVs and detailed compliance tables
• Assistance until the candidate is hired
Additionally, upon request:
• Possession of all the required work certificates – checked
• Reference checks
DELIVERY TIME
Approximately 20 working days.
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Executive search
‘End-to-end’ recruitment solution designed to help you to hire senior,
executive, or highly specialized professionals.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
• 5+ highly qualified candidates
• Verification of compliance against the profile requirements during phone screening
• Negotiation of availability, relocation, and financial expectations within the given range
• Tailored CVs and detailed compliance tables
• Assistance until the candidate is hired
Additionally, upon request:
• Interviews with shortlisted candidates
• Psychometric testing
• Reference checks
• Collection of all the required work certificates
Over 15 years of experience successfully recruiting staff in the development and
humanitarian sectors
An ever-growing database of 65,000 junior, mid-level and senior professionals
Recruitment strategies tailored to clients’ needs taking into consideration their
culture, vision, mission and available budget
Quick results – we deliver a shortlist of qualified, available and interested candidates within
two weeks of the initial contact
Higher value for a smaller investment – we have the most advantageous
prices on the market
A wide range of tailored services that can accommodate any needs or budgets
Non-Governmental & Non-profit Organizations
● Consulting and Engineering firms
● Financing Institutions and Governments
● Framework contractors
DevelopmentAid was a life-saver for us when we had a hard-to-fill position located
outside of the U.S. We were unsuccessful in finding the right candidates using our
own methods but once we engaged with DevelopmentAid, they supported us right away.
They were very quick and responsive to our feedback – each candidate they sent us was
closer and closer to what we were looking for. In the end, we moved forward with
formal interviews for five of the candidates they provided. After working with
DevelopmentAid, we contracted them to work on two additional positions for us and
will be keeping them in mind for more hard-to-fill positions for us!
Genevieve McGann
Our organization used DevelopmentAid to find candidates for a role we were having a
great deal of difficulty filling. After a number of iterations to ensure that they were
generating exactly the right candidates, the team produced a robust list of top flight
talent for our consideration. From the list, we were ultimately fortunate to interview
three candidates who we would happily have hired.
Liesl Semper
GEOPOLL
We have been collaborating with DRS for the past two years. Their professionalism,
support and level of understanding of our needs has been very high and consistent
throughout all the processes that they helped us with.
They have helped us fill the first Executive vacancy role that we had in
the company since it began and also another vital role, the Director of Operations
which we had been struggling to fill! We are thrilled with the people we found,
and that is thanks to the DRS team! Our Chief Delivery Officer has now been with
us for about a year and we are extremely grateful to have him board!
Sabina Bodea
People Operations Manager
Frequently Asked Questions
We already have access to the DevelopmentAid database. Why should we invest in DRS services?
What is the added value?
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With DRS, you diversify your sources of candidates because we host a database of 200 000+ professionals
who are not accessible through your membership. You will also benefit from the guidance and advice of
our multilingual recruiters, who have a deep understanding of and broad experience in the development
cooperation sector. Last but not least, it is a matter of work efficiency: you either assign this
tedious, lengthy, and time-consuming task in-house, or you externalize the process to us, allowing you
the opportunity to focus on more important strategic issues (tender preparations, budget alignments, etc.).
What is the difference between a CV Shortlist, Talent Hire, and Executive Search?
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Each service is designed to meet different recruitment needs. For example, CV Shortlist is relevant when
the Customer wishes to have a few additional CVs for consideration. Talent Hire works best when the
Customer wants to delegate the entire recruitment process for any role to a third party. DRS will assist
you until you announce the hiring decision (this service includes phone screening of the shortlisted
candidates and filling in the compliance tables). Executive Search is the best and all-inclusive option
for highly specialized roles when the customer delegates the entire recruitment process to DRS.
Additionally, as a part of the Executive Search, DRS can assist you with interviews,
psychometric testing, reference checks, and collection of working documents.
Do you offer your services in other languages apart from English?
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Besides English, we can deliver the CV shortlist, Consultant Search and CV Formatting services in French.
If we choose the Talent Hire and you present us with candidates, but none of the experts is hired for
the role, do you reimburse the cost?
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The idea behind a Talent Hire is that we present you with a shortlist of the most relevant, compliant,
and available candidates for your consideration. We cannot guarantee their employment. You hold the
proprietary rights to the shortlist we provide and can therefore consider and engage those candidates
for any other proposals or positions you may have in the pipeline. The payment structure is designed to
exclude any risks from your side. You shall pay the non-refundable fee once we have submitted the
candidates to you, while the second instalment shall only be made after you decide to proceed with the
hiring of any candidate submitted by us.
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