Digital Government Jobs

Revised 2024-11-29 | Please send suggestions – contact me or comment below

About this page

There are countless places online to find career opportunities in digital government, “public interest technology,” or related nonprofits and businesses. But there isn’t a single engine to search across them all, and keeping track of all the sites and resources to visit is effectively impossible. But on this page I’ll do my best to keep a clean, high-level, U.S.-focused collection of sites for finding digital public service roles.

Who is this page for?	People seeking jobs that make digital government services more effective, responsive, accessible, integrated, and ubiquitous
Geographic scope	United States jobs at the federal, State, and local levels, or in consulting firms serving them
How does this page help?	This page links out to websites with relevant, targeted, and active job listings or resources that help job seekers develop careers in government digital services

🔖 Bookmark this page and come back anytime you want to search for jobs or just see what your civic tech peers are hiring these days.

ℹ️ I’m providing this list as a public service, for free, no strings attached. I do not represent any of these organizations or sites, and I get nothing in return for including them here.

🔍 If you are hiring, don’t miss the Talent Toolkit from U.S. Digital Response to increase your odds of making great hires, and don’t forget to share your jobs on the appropriate sites.

CONTENTS

Before you search

Are you sure you want to work in the digital government or civic technology world? Really? 😉 While everyone is welcome (and needed!), some consider working in this sector an acquired taste. So if you’re transitioning into #govtech or considering it, check out some of these resources first.

Tech to Gov
If you’re moving out of a technology role and into civic tech or government, this is a great starter resource to understand what the transition might be like.
U.S. Digital Response: Volunteer
You don’t have to leave your current job and jump into civic tech head first—you can volunteer some spare time, using your skills to help government teams today. This may give you a sense of what challenges they face and how you might fit in.
A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide
This book by Cyd Harrell is a thorough introduction to the challenges and rewards of working in government and related firms. It’s a lot to absorb, but if you need to know what this sector offers (and requires), it’s a great resource.
Go Government
This is a nonprofit aimed at folks looking at employment in the federal government. They offer resources to learn more about the (unusual) federal-style resume, the application process, and even have info to help you figure out which agencies are right for you.

National indexes

GovernmentJobs.com
This is a national government jobs site, provided by the private company NeoGov—an HR software vendor catering to governments. They gather all the job openings from all their government customers across the U.S. (federal, state, and local). You can also post a job seeker profile there, allowing NeoGov customers to search for you, and making your job applications easier.
#PublicSectorJobBoard
Handcrafted by Rebecca Heywood, this roughly-weekly update on job opportunities from across the country also includes notes on civic digital developments and events. Subscribe to get the latest automatically via email.
DSCovery
This is a large and dynamic index of digital jobs from companies that participate in the Digital Services Coalition, a nonprofit association of third-party agile / design / tech firms serving the government sector (like Bixal, Nava, CivicActions, Coforma, Exygy, and many more). So these are generally not government jobs, but jobs in companies that sell software and services to governments.
Job Boards List via USDR’s Talent Toolkit (Google sheet)
U.S. Digital Response has the awesome Talent Toolkit for folks looking to hire digital government roles. In their collection of tools is this Google sheet you can download that has a ton of job boards listed, including ones I don’t have on this page. Worth checking out. (They also have a downloadable Excel version.)

Federal opportunities

USAJOBS (Office of Personnel Management)
USAJOBS – Federal Tech Portal (Office of Personnel Management)
Digital.gov
- To share a position on this board, email it to digitalgov@gsa.gov. They review all job submissions to ensure postings are relevant to the Digital.gov community. Currently, only government positions posted on USAJOBS (above) can be uploaded to the Digital.gov job board.
18F Jobs (GSA)
Technology Transformation Services Jobs (GSA)
Cool Govtech Jobs (by Bill Hunt)
CISA Careers (cybersecurity-specific)

State-level digital teams

There’s a growing number of State government digital design and technology teams across the country. These are currently the best examples out there, but contact me with suggestions of more to add.

Govtech consulting shops

DSCovery
This is a large and dynamic index of digital jobs from companies that participate in the Digital Services Coalition, a nonprofit association of third-party agile / design / tech firms serving the government sector (like Bixal, Nava, CivicActions, Coforma, Exygy, and many more). So these are generally not government jobs, but jobs in companies that sell software and services to governments.
U.S. Digital Response: Employment
Code for America
Civilla

Govtech vendors

For our UK friends

Internet of Public Service Jobs
Handcrafted by digital leader Matt Jukes, this email newsletter / website collects interesting digital government and related jobs from London and beyond.

Even more options (not yet categorized)

You can find digital service teams (for more direct job options) all across the U.S. in the Government Digital Service Team Tracker provided by the Beeck Center.

Civic Match by Work for America
This new service “…connects public servants in transition—from the White House to federal agencies to campaigns—with critical roles in state and local governments.”
Tech Jobs for Good
All Hands
Submit your resume and target jobs in comms, data, development, digital, engineering, operations, or product management / ownership.
Impactful
Search for “social impact technology” roles
Fast Forward: Tech Nonprofit Job Board
Diversify Tech Job Board
This index is aimed at “underrepresented” employee categories; the companies represented on the job board are transparent about and deliberate with their Diversity & Inclusion efforts.
Higher Ground Labs
Tekalo
Matches tech talent with impact-driven organizations
Responsible Tech Careers & Job Board – by All Tech is Human
Internet Law & Policy Jobs – by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry
Progressive Data Jobs
“…supports job-seekers in finding data, analytics, and tech jobs across the progressive and Democratic space.”

Contact me (or comment below) with corrections or suggestions

Ideas for future revisions

Overall, the way to differentiate this page from other resources is to provide a lot of human-scale curation, not just a data dump. Less is more.
Make the focus of the listings clear and validate all entries (digital jobs, not general technology jobs, work that impacts direct public service within 1-2 degress of separation)
Clearly separate federal, state, and local resources and listing spaces
Work to ensure each link has a brief explainer attached to it (where is it, what is it, what do they host)
Keep adding relevant listing spaces as they are discovered
- search all 50 states for digital teams
- comb through the Digital Service Teams database hosted by the DSN at Beeck
May need to move listings to a more data-focused format
Schedule periodic full-page reviews to validate all links are still active