Search for Common Ground Africa Program Development Internship 2025

Deadline: November 30, 2024

Applications are open for the Search for Common Ground Africa Program Development Internship 2025. Search for Common Ground’s Africa Program Development Hub is looking for program improvement interns who will help the crew within the improvement of profitable proposals and idea notes that may contribute to constructing peace throughout the African continent.

The interns will be part of a high-performing, numerous, and dynamic crew primarily based in Europe, East and West Africa, who’re obsessed with designing impactful applications in 17 nations throughout the Sahel area, the Lake Chad Basin, the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Tanzania-Mozambique, and the Sudans. Program improvement commences with scoping and pre-positioning for potential funding alternatives and completes with the signing of a challenge award. Interns could have the OPPORTUNITY to contribute to the totally different levels of program improvement: from writing proposals and idea notes, participating with native and worldwide companions, and supporting donor engagement. Each intern will likely be assigned a geographic area however could also be requested to help different nations throughout the Africa portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the event of proposals, together with however not restricted to writing proposal narratives, growing theories of change, articulating program actions, drafting logical frameworks and copy-editing.
• Contribute to the event of up-to-date and correct context statements by rigorous desk analysis.
• Support the event of fundraising methods.
• Analyze calls for proposals and help the crew’s pre-positioning efforts, together with analysis on and outreach to potential companions.
• Edit English (and/or French) proposals and communications supplies for readability and precision.
• Attend conferences, occasions, and conferences, representing the crew, and sharing notes afterwards.
• Backstop the Africa Program Development Hub and our nation workplaces on a spread of logistical and administrative duties.

Benefits

• Interns will obtain modest stipends according to native pay rules.

Eligibility

• Applicant ought to have a level in related topic.
• Strong writing, enhancing and communication abilities in English.
• For candidates primarily based in francophone Africa, fluency in French is required.
• Demonstrable curiosity in and data of peacebuilding or worldwide improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• A self-starting, detail-oriented and versatile method to duties.
• Ability to deal with a number of duties and tight deadlines.
• Excellent consideration to element;

Desirable

• Other languages (Portuguese, Somali) an asset
• Experience working at a non-governmental group/non-profit or comparable surroundings
• Practical expertise in program improvement
• International expertise, ideally in growing nations

Application

Send a resume and canopy letter. The deadline to apply is November 30, 2024. This place requires a dedication of a minimum of 20 hours per week for six months, beginning on January 1, 2025. 

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For extra info, go to Search for Common Ground.