Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Global Mission 300 Fellowship 2025 for Africans – YOA

Deadline: May 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Global Mission 300 Fellowship 2025. The Mission 300 Fellowship program will place younger African professionals into authorities line ministries or within the President/Prime Minister’s workplace in help of Mission 300 (M300) – a World Bank Group and Africa Development Bank led effort to impress 300 million African by 2030 that’s supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, RF Catalytic Capital, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) (the “Mission 300 Partners”).

The Mission 300 Fellowship program is impressed by the ODI Fellowship Scheme, which has demonstrated the worth of embedding expert professionals in public establishments for lengthy-time period institutional strengthening. The Mission 300 fellowship program will purpose to position professionals in Mission 300 Compact Delivery and Monitoring Units (CDMUs), typically hosted by senior African authorities entities, together with the places of work of the Presidency or Prime Minister or in power or finance ministries. Fellows will work alongside their host authorities colleagues and Mission 300 companions to assist them obtain the objectives set forth within the nation’s Mission 300 National Energy Compact, offering help to the CDMU and its employees and serving to design tailor-made, context-particular options to power challenges, guaranteeing sustainable, lengthy-time period affect.

Benefits

• Total compensation, internet of tax, might be roughly USD $26,000 within the first 12 months and USD $28,000 within the second 12 months.
• In addition to this quantity, a housing allowance might be offered, which varies primarily based on the price of residing within the assigned nation.
• Each Fellowship might be tailor-made to the particular in-nation wants which might be aligned to Mission 300 priorities, offering Fellows with a useful OPPORTUNITY to achieve firsthand expertise addressing urgent nation-wants whereas making significant contributions to the development of the power sector in Africa underneath Mission 300.

Eligibility

• Open to candidates of African nationalities who’ve a grasp’s diploma in a subject related and associated to the facility and power sector.
• Suitable specialised {qualifications} at postgraduate stage embody however aren’t restricted to economics, finance, regulation, power, engineering, improvement, public coverage, environmental science, geology, local weather and sustainability, or associated fields.
• For these finding out for a postgraduate diploma on the time of application, the award of a fellowship is conditional upon the profitable completion of the postgraduate diploma.
• Two to 4 years {of professional} expertise, together with a stable understanding of economics, finance, power methods, public coverage, environmental science, geology, local weather, and sustainability.
• Able to show the flexibility to apply this interdisciplinary information to actual-world challenges in significant and sensible methods.
• An skill to analyse knowledge and knowledge and to resolve issues.
• An skill to speak complicated technical concepts to non-specialists, each verbally and in writing.
• Strong command of English, in addition to French in French-speaking nations and Portuguese in Portuguese-speaking nations.

Application

Note that they can’t settle for any supporting supplies (CVs, transcripts, and so forth). Due to the massive variety of purposes obtained, candidates might be assessed on their application varieties solely.

You are requested to supply particulars of two references, however they won’t contact any of them at this stage. If you might be chosen for an interview, they’ll ask you to comply with up with references.

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For extra info, go to ODI Global Mission 300 Fellowship.