African Development Bank 2025 Internship Program – Session 2 (Fully-funded with remote or on-site options)

THE BANK:

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African growth establishment, selling financial progress and social progress throughout the continent. There are 81 member states, together with 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries). The Bank’s growth agenda is delivering the monetary and technical assist for transformative initiatives that may considerably scale back poverty via inclusive and sustainable financial progress. In order to sharply focus the aims of the Ten-Year Strategy (2023 – 2032) and guarantee higher developmental impression, 5 main areas, all of which can speed up our supply for Africa, have been recognized for scaling up, specifically; power, agro-business, industrialization, integration and enhancing the standard of life for the folks of Africa. The Internship program is part of a wider Talent Management Framework which facilitates the Bank to ship on the Ten-Year Strategy and the High 5s.

Participants within the Program are chosen on a aggressive foundation, primarily based on enterprise wants of the Bank.

Objectives:

The broad aims of this system are to:

• Provide college students with a possibility to amass skilled and sensible expertise on the African Development Bank.
• Provide the Bank with a pool of potential candidates for future recruitment functions.

However, candidates shouldn’t anticipate the internship to result in speedy employment with the Bank.

The Fields of Study Required for the Internship:

• The fields of study from which Interns shall be chosen have to be inside the Job Families of the Bank: Agriculture, Human Capital, Engineering, Investment, Operations administration & programming, Sustainability, Procurement, Delivery & Performance Monitoring, Risk Management, Finance, Capacity Development, Governance, Natural Resource and Knowledge Management, Economics, Statistics and Data Management, Human Resources Management, Information Management Technology, Real Estate Management and Services, Translation and Interpretation, Communication, Legal, Corporate Governance & Advisory Functions or every other subject of study that the Bank could deem related to its operations.
• Special consideration shall be given to college students who’re engaged on initiatives which have a direct bearing on the mission of the Bank.

Timeline for Session 2 of the 2025 Internship Program:

Session 2 of the 2025 Internship Program will start in July 2025.

Terms and Conditions:

• Internships shall be granted to every candidate for a interval not lower than three (3) months and less than six (6) months. The internship is permitted solely as soon as for any candidate.
• Selected interns will carry out their internship both remotely or on-site relying on the wants of their respective hiring models. Remote interns are anticipated to have entry to a private pc, dependable web connection and a conducive residing atmosphere that facilitates clean and uninterrupted remote working.
• On-site interns shall be answerable for their air journey (in case of) to and from the Bank’s location in addition to their maintenance.
• The Bank will use cheap efforts to help the involved interns in acquiring their entry and residence visas.
• Eligible Interns will profit from a medical insurance coverage protection paid by the Bank through the interval of their internship.
• Eligible interns will probably be supplied with a month-to-month stipend.

Eligibility Criteria:

To be eligible for internship, candidates should meet the next standards:

• Must have attained the age of majority of their nation of nationality or origin and be no more than Thirty (30) years previous on the time of graduation of the internship program.
• Be presently enrolled in a grasp’s stage diploma program in a acknowledged public or non-public instructional establishment of upper studying.
• The candidate can apply for an internship inside one (1) yr of getting obtained such a level.
• Be nationals of the member Countries of the African Development Bank.
• Provide a letter from their faculty confirming their enrollment or a duplicate of the above-mentioned Degree. Applicants have to be fluent in at the least one of many Banks’s two working languages (English or French).
• Be in a position to make use of the Bank’s normal software program packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access); data of SAP is fascinating.

Strategic Focus areas:

The particular disciplines and specialist skilled areas are aligned to the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy (TYS) and the gender technique.  In addition to the fields which are within the job households of the Bank, focus will probably be on the next areas:

• Agriculture
• Human Capital
• Engineering
• Investment
• Operations administration & programming
• Sustainability
• Procurement
• Delivery & Performance Monitoring
• Risk Management
• Finance
• Capacity Development
• Governance, Natural Resource and Knowledge Management
• Economics, Statistics and Data Management
• Human Resources Management
• Information Management Technology
• Real Estate Management and Services
• Translation and Interpretation
• Communication
• Legal
• Corporate Governance & Advisory Functions or every other subject of study that the Bank could deem related to its operations

Application Procedure:

Applicants will solely be thought-about in the event that they submit a web-based full application and connect a complete Curriculum Vitae (CV).

The Bank runs two (2) internship classes per yr. The choice course of for session 1 of the 2025 Internship Program has been accomplished and chosen interns are onboard. This announcement is for session 2 of the 2025 Internship Program, which can start in July 2025.

The announcement for session 1 of the 2026 Internship Program will probably be made in October 2025 and chosen interns will start in January 2026.