ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program Cohort 9 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2026. The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship that intends to stability a dose of principle with actual-world application and equip individuals with the requisite multi-disciplinary mental improvement, sensible abilities, and analysis talents to suppose in additional revolutionary methods to resolve advanced governance challenges. The Program can be a method to construct a pipeline of younger pan-African leaders to supply a sustainable path for good governance.

The core of ACEP’s ambition is to coach and nurture younger individuals in an enabling working atmosphere via a structured capability improvement course of. These will embrace coaching on transformational management improvement, skilled and profession improvement, and digital communication and expertise abilities. Essentially, past the technical coaching in useful resource governance, interns shall be uncovered to the instruments and steerage wanted to set and obtain life like private {and professional} objectives, coupled with properly-rounded and moral management coaching.

Responsibilities

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

• Contribute to writing analysis experiences 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 applications.
• Support organizational improvement 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 improvement via:
  • Opportunities for coaching and improvement
  • Coaching, mentorship, and peer assist
  • Creating room for creativity and innovation
• A beneficiant stipend and lunch all through this system.
• Decent lodging for worldwide NextGen Leaders.
• An accredited return ticket from the NextGen Leader’s home nation to Ghana.

Eligibility

The applicant have to be a younger African residing in Africa, aged not exceeding 32 years, who demonstrates a ardour for guaranteeing the continent’s huge power and extractive assets contribute to sustainable and inclusive improvement. 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, regulation, political economic system, improvement research, improvement finance, mission administration, communications, statistics, arithmetic, and many others.
• Good writing abilities with readability and logical stream 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 workforce spirit
• The capacity to suppose creatively and take the initiative in fixing issues
• A superb sense of possession and accountability for his/her selections and actions
• A robust sense of management

Application

Required application paperwork:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV):
  • Present your CV chronologically, itemizing the newest experiences and achievements first.
• Higher Education Degree Certificates:
  • Submit solely copies of certificates in your accomplished increased training levels (e.g., Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equal).
  • Do not embrace highschool certificates or diplomas.
  • For certificates not in English, connect their English translations to the corresponding doc inside the identical PDF file.
• Motivational Statement:
  • Submit a written assertion explaining your causes for making use of to the NextGen Program. It ought to define your objectives, aspirations, and the way your background and pursuits align with this system’s aims.
  • Limit this to 500 phrases.
• Reference Letter:
  • Provide a present written reference from one of many following: a college lecturer, a former employer, or another skilled (not a member of the family)
• Essay Response:
  • Submit a written response to one of the 2 supplied essay questions.
  • You can discover the application essay questions here.
• National ID

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For extra info, go to ACEP.