ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2025. The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship that intends to steadiness a dose of principle with actual-world application and equip individuals with the requisite multi-disciplinary mental growth, sensible abilities, and analysis skills to suppose in additional modern methods to resolve complicated governance challenges. The Program can be a technique to construct a pipeline of younger pan-African leaders to supply a sustainable path for good governance.

The core of the ambition is to coach and nurture younger individuals in an enabling working setting by way of a structured capability growth course of. These will embody coaching on transformational management growth, skilled and profession growth, and digital communication and know-how abilities. Essentially, past the technical coaching in useful resource governance, interns will probably be uncovered to the instruments and steering wanted to set and obtain lifelike private {and professional} objectives, coupled with effectively-rounded and moral management coaching.

Responsibilities

NextGen Leaders will ship well timed and high quality proof-based mostly coverage evaluation, coaching, and advocacy by way of robust collaborations, making certain that ACEP stays a thought-chief in Africa’s power and extractive coverage area. Specifically, the NextGen Leaders will:

• Contribute to writing analysis reviews and coverage briefs on the power and extractives sector of Africa.
• Support stakeholder engagement actions on ACEP’s outputs and place on power and extractive sector points in Africa.
• Contribute to the planning, implementation, and analysis of annual packages.
• Support organizational growth actions.
• Support in useful resource mobilization efforts, together with grants and proposal writing.
• Contribute to program administration, monitoring and analysis (M&E) actions.

Benefits

ACEP will present:

• Support for progress and growth by way of:
  • Opportunities for coaching and growth
  • Coaching, mentorship, and peer assist
  • Creating room for creativity and innovation
• A beneficiant stipend and lunch in the course of this system.
• Decent lodging for worldwide NextGen Leaders.
• An authorised return ticket from the NextGen Leader’s home nation to Ghana.

Eligibility

The applicant should be a younger African residing in Africa, aged not exceeding 32 years, who demonstrates a ardour for making certain the continent’s huge power and extractive sources contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth. Among different {qualifications}, the applicant should possess:

• Relevant educational {qualifications}, ideally in any or a mixture of economics (together with power), engineering (petroleum/electrical), oil and fuel administration, public coverage, legislation, political economic system, growth research, growth finance, challenge administration, communications, statistics, arithmetic, and many others.
• Good writing abilities with readability and logical circulate of thought
• Adequate data of related qualitative and quantitative analytical instruments (R, Stata, Eviews, NVivo, Atlas.ti and many others.)
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet a number of deadlines.
• Good interpersonal abilities and staff spirit.
• The means to suppose creatively and take the initiative in fixing issues.
• An excellent sense of possession and duty for his/her selections and actions.
• A powerful sense of management.

Application

Applicants are required to supply solutions to the questions requested within the application type and add the required doc as one PDF file within the applicable part. Applications are open till 11:59 PM GMT on Sunday, February 2, 2025.

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For extra data, go to ACEP Next Gen Program.