AUC-UNDP African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme 2025 at UNDP Headquarters in New York or in a regional or country office (Fully Funded)

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Application Deadline:  01 June 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 AUC-UNDP African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme. The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme gives an attention-grabbing 12-month project with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in considered one of its regional or country places of work. There will probably be no placement in hardship areas.  

Location: UNDP at Headquarters in New York or in a regional or country office (No hardship responsibility stations). Salary: Monthly stipend to help lodging and primary dwelling prices

The AfYWL Fellowship Programme:

• Do you wish to work to advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063?
• Do you wish to contribute in direction of youth empowerment and employment, gender equality and ladies empowerment, strategic communications and partnerships, and South-South Cooperation to unleash the event potential of Africa?
• Do you wish to develop your abilities and be part of a new era of world leaders?
• Do you imagine in the potential of younger ladies in driving transformational change?
• Are you capable of mainstream youth priorities and gender in improvement?

The AfYWL Fellowship Programme is a partnership underneath the framework of the AUC Chairperson’s 1 Million Next Level Initiative, which goals to supply Opportunities for African youth in the important thing areas of Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Engagement, and mainstream youth and ladies in key improvement areas. This thrilling partnership goals to construct a new era of younger African ladies leaders and consultants to serve Africa and the world in designing and implementing improvement programmes in the context of the SDGs and Agenda 2063. The Fellowship Programme will discover totally different areas of improvement inside the six strategic impression areas of UNDP’s Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa: 1) Natural Resource Governance; 2) Youth and Women’s Employment and Empowerment; 3) Structural Economic Transformation; 4) Sustainable Energy; 5) Climate Change; and 6) Peace and Security.  

The AfYWL Fellowship Programme is in search of as much as 40 proficient younger African ladies to hitch the fourth cohort of this 12-month fellowship programme. As an AfYWL Fellow you can be assigned with a UNDP office underneath a studying and improvement programme. You will embark on a journey the place you have to to display agility and adaptableness to an setting and an project the place your abilities and potential will probably be leveraged. Applicants ought to be prepared to just accept any location supplied in both HQ, Country or Regional office (no hardship areas).

The program is  in search of engaged younger African ladies who embrace UNDP’s values:
– Integrity
– Accountability
– Transparency
– Professionalism
– Mutual Respect
– Results Orientation (Through Principled Performance) 

Benefits

• Each fellow will obtain a month-to-month stipend to help lodging and primary dwelling prices at their respective responsibility station. In addition, paid depart and an earmarked studying funds will probably be allotted for endeavor related studying and improvement actions.
• The Fellowship programme will cowl bills associated to journey and medical insurance coverage for the guy solely. Please be aware that the Fellowship Programme doesn’t cowl allowances, or any bills associated to your loved ones members (journey, visa, education, medical insurance, and so on.).

Duties, Responsibilities and Expected Outputs
Key areas of duties could embody:
1) Collection and evaluation of knowledge and analysis on SDGs and Agenda 2063;
2) Experimentation on promising areas of innovation across the six impression areas of UNDP’s Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa;
3) Drafting analysis papers, studies and shows;
4) Participating in inside and exterior conferences and conferences;
5) Supporting the implementation of initiatives and initiatives on gender, youth, local weather change, resilience and safety amongst others;
6) Participating in subject missions as required;
7) Providing help and liaising with authorities officers and numerous stakeholders.

Training and Learning
As part of the fellowship project, the guy will profit from the next coaching and studying Opportunities:

• Participation in a joint induction/ management coaching workshop in late 2025 or early 2026 developed by AUC and UNDP (prices lined).
• Access to an earmarked studying funds for related studying/improvement actions.
• Participation in common mentorship by senior AUC and UNDP workers.
• Participation in tailor-made studying and group occasions concentrating on UNDP Young Professionals
• Support from UNDP on different company studying and improvement actions.

In addition, the Fellow will profit from the related coaching and studying modalities/Opportunities supplied in the receiving office.

Eligibility Criteria
Education:

• Completed Master’s diploma or equal in Economics, Political Science, Business Administration, International Relations/Development, Law, Communications, Digitalization or different associated improvement subject.    

Experience:

• Maximum cumulative two years (publish bachelor/postmaster diploma) of related and paid working expertise in analysis, evaluation and programme/mission improvement, implementation and administration.

Language Requirements:

• Strong working data of English is required
• Proficiency in at least one further AU working language (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish) is a bonus

Additional Criteria:

• Female candidates accepted solely
• National of an African Union member state  
• Maximum Age of 30 at the date of application.
• Available in 2025/2026 to dedicate 12 months for a fellowship project.
• Available late 2025 to relocate to responsibility station and begin the Fellowship project.
• Willing to stay and work exterior country of residence on an project which leverages in your abilities & potential.
• Understanding of, and curiosity in, poverty eradication, sustainable structural transformation, the SDGs and Agenda 2063.
• Capacity to collect complete info on advanced issues or conditions, and skill to judge and analyze info precisely in order to establish key points and options.
• Additional experience and background in digital transformation, strategic partnerships and communications, improvement intelligence and innovation may also be thought of. 

Competencies
1. Reflection – Think Innovatively: Open to artistic concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements
2. Action – Achieve Results: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
3. Interaction – Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, kinds constructive relationships
4. Self-Management – Act with Determination: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured

Application Procedure:

To provoke your application you have to: 

• Copies of your Passports for add. If you don’t maintain a passport, a copy of your nationwide ID will be uploaded. If you maintain a number of nationalities, please add copies of all passports/ nationwide IDs.
• Copies of your educational levels (tertiary training/ Master and Bachelor from duly accredited larger training establishment for add).

Applications that don’t meet the eligibility standards or don’t embody the requested paperwork is not going to be taken into additional consideration. Please be additionally suggested that failure to supply paperwork requested in every stage of the method inside the specified deadlines will outcome in disqualification from the choice course of.

The application process will bear the next phases:
Stage 1: Upon preliminary evaluation of your eligibility, you could be invited to submit further info to help your application.
Stage 2: Candidates underneath additional consideration will probably be invited to an on-line take a look at with the target to check your competencies and cognitive talents. 
Stage 3: Should you be thought of following profitable completion of the take a look at, you can be invited for an evaluation and self -recorded video consisting of:
                                     a. Technical evaluation: Presentation of a improvement drawback.     
                                     b. Competency primarily based evaluation.       
                                     c. Assessment of your listed language abilities 
Stage 4: A remaining analysis of your submitted self-recorded video interview will probably be carried out as the ultimate stage of your application course of by a UNDP Evaluation Panel. Successful and totally beneficial candidates will probably be included in a remaining roster thought of for the obtainable AfYWL Fellowship placements at a location/project decided by UNDP. This stage is anticipated to be concluded by finish of August 2025.  
Stage 5: The location of project will probably be decided via a remaining matching train the place candidate profiles will probably be matched towards project profiles/responsibility stations and probably the most appropriate match is recognized.  
Stage 6: Candidates underneath remaining consideration could also be invited for a follow-up interview with the internet hosting office in UNDP Headquarters, regional or country office. Offers to hitch the 4th Cohort of African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme together with the placement of project and job description will probably be communicated to the 40 most profitable candidates.
Stage 7: The full evaluation and choice course of is anticipated to be concluded by finish October 2025. Onboarding to receiving UNDP places of work (Expected This fall, 2025).

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the AUC-UNDP African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme