ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2026 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2026. The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship designed to steadiness idea with actual-world application and equip contributors with the requisite multi-disciplinary mental improvement, sensible abilities, and analysis skills to assume in additional progressive methods to unravel advanced governance challenges.

The Program goals to construct a pipeline of younger pan-African leaders to supply a sustainable path for good governance by coaching and nurturing younger folks in an enabling working setting by a structured capability improvement course of. Trainings will deal with useful resource governance in Africa and past, transformational management, skilled and profession improvement, digital communication and know-how abilities. Essentially, interns can be uncovered to the requisite instruments and skillsets wanted to set and obtain real looking private {and professional} objectives to succeed on the planet of labor whereas upholding moral management.

Responsibilities

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

• Contribute to writing analysis stories 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 development and improvement by:
  • Opportunities for coaching and improvement
  • Coaching, mentorship, and peer assist
  • Creating room for creativity and innovation
• A beneficiant stipend and lunch in the course of this system.
• Decent lodging for worldwide NextGen Leaders.
• An authorized return ticket from the NextGen Leader’s home nation to Ghana.

Eligibility

The applicant should 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 tutorial {qualifications}, ideally in any or a mix of economics (together with power), engineering (petroleum/electrical), oil and gasoline administration, public coverage, legislation, political financial system, improvement research, improvement finance, undertaking administration, communications, statistics, arithmetic, and many others.
• Good writing abilities with readability and logical move of thought
• Adequate information 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 staff spirit.
• The capacity to assume creatively and take the initiative in fixing issues.
• A great sense of possession and duty for his/her choices and actions.
• A robust sense of management.

Application

Applicants are required to supply solutions to the questions requested within the application kind and add the required doc as one PDF file within the applicable part. Applications shut at 11:59 PM GMT on Thursday, January 15, 2026.

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For extra info, go to ACEP Next Gen Program.