WACSI Next Generation Internship Programme 2026 for Young Graduates and Early-Career Professionals (Fully Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: October 26, 2025.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 WACSI Next Generation Internship Programme. In response to an recognized want for structured sensible capability enhancement for younger West Africans, WACSI launched a Next Generation Internship Programme (NGIP) in January 2008 aimed toward creating the subsequent technology of African students and practitioners. The programme primarily targets younger West Africans, both contemporary graduates or early profession professionals, searching for work expertise in WACSI’s core areas of labor. Interns are anticipated to decide to WACSI for six months throughout which period they are going to be absolutely concerned in all WACSI actions and improve their data and capacities for management, data and programme administration, and essential improvement points for West Africa, amongst different areas.

WACSI is due to this fact searching for interns from Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone fascinated with enhancing their civic consciousness and creating their skilled capability. They will likely be embedded in WACSI’s core areas of labor i.e. Capacity Development, Policy Influencing and Advocacy, and Knowledge Management.

Requirements

• Applicants will need to have a minimal of a primary diploma in worldwide affairs, political science, public coverage, regulation, improvement research, or associated fields.
• Applicants must also present an curiosity in civil society and non-profit organisation administration.

Benefits

• This is a completely funded internship by WACSI. The institute will assist interns absolutely with a flight to and from their home nation, furnished lodging, lunch throughout working days for the length of the internship and a month-to-month stipend. 

Job function

Responsibilities for Interns:

• Supporting in designing and implementing institutional evaluation instruments, coaching, and technical assist.
• Participating in unit and cross-unit programme/venture planning and proposal improvement.
• Providing normal administrative assist for programmes, finances monitoring, monitoring, and sustaining a calendar of actions.
• Assisting with preparations and organisation of the varied items of coaching and technical assist deliberate below the Unit.
• Serving as a liaison between WACSI and useful resource individuals, associates, companions, and beneficiaries.
• Aiding in designing and creating coaching instruments reminiscent of toolkits, modules, and different indigenous coaching assets.
• Researching, writing, and producing briefings and reality sheets on ongoing programmes and tasks.
• Developing and drafting venture work plans, studies, idea notes, and different documentation, reminiscent of coaching and useful resource supplies, displays, and finances proposals.
• Conduct desktop analysis on coverage and legislative points
• Assist in gathering data and writing studies for coverage conferences 
• Assist in coverage conferences and workshop preparation 
• Assist within the improvement of coverage advocacy coaching device
• Support different administrative duties
• Any different duties that the Head of the Unit could assign

Please word:

• Preference will likely be given to candidates with excessive proficiency in English, French or Portuguese and a working data of 1 different.
• The profitable intern will spend a considerable part of her/his internship working on the WACSI workplace in Accra, Ghana.
• The internship interval is from January to June 2026. Interns who’re unable to finish the six-months internship will refund the overall price of the internship bundle to WACSI.
• The deadline for application is October 26, 2025.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WACSI Next Generation Internship Programme