Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Women in STEM Traineeship 2026 for Nigerian women graduates. – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: June 12, 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Women in STEM Traineeship. SEforALL is recruiting latest women graduates for a traineeship programme in Nigeria. The traineeship will present hands-on technical coaching with a give attention to clear vitality and unlocking financing for SDG 7. STEM Trainees will work intently with Government officers and challenge companions in the implementation of actions.

This is an affirmative emptiness for candidates figuring out as women between the age of 18 and 35 in Nigeria, that’s, solely candidates figuring out as women residing in Nigeria can be thought-about.

The STEM Trainee will work on the important intersection of sustainable vitality, personal fairness, and nationwide coverage. Trainees will achieve hands-on expertise in the monetary sector. By combining high-level challenge involvement with focused skilled growth, this programme is designed to construct the technical experience and comfortable expertise essential to catalyze a profitable profession in the worldwide vitality sector.

The six-months STEM Traineeship programme can be comprised of two programmatic components, whereby the primary component will contain digital trainings on skilled growth, together with comfortable expertise, and related technical subjects, whereas the second component will contain activity-based technical trainings, offering hands-on sensible expertise by means of the supply of help to challenge companions on the assorted actions. 

Skills

Academic Writing, Analytical Skills, Communication, Energy, Energy Policy, Google Docs, Problem Solving, Report Writing, Stakeholder Engagement

Education Requirements

Required:

• Applicants ought to be enrolled in a college programme akin to Bachelor, Masters or Ph.D. (or the equal) or have graduated from such research inside three (3) years previous to their application, in a STEM discipline (i.e., sciences, renewable vitality, engineering, knowledge science, geographic info methods, or associated areas).

Experience Requirements

Required: 

• Applicants aren’t required to have prior work expertise

Desired:

• Prior expertise in vitality, engineering, finance, communications or associated fields can be a bonus.

Functions / Key Results Expected

The STEM Trainee can be a part of a Nigerian cohort, with the traineeship centered on the next areas:

Technical Support and Operations:

• Provide technical help for the implementation of gender- and youth-responsive vitality actions;
• Assist the challenge crew in coordinating actions, conferences, and sources crucial for the profitable execution of energy-focused initiatives; and
• Participate in vitality audits, website visits & wants assessments for in-country workstreams.

Financial Platform Support and Trainings:

• Support the implementation of the Sustainable Energy Finance Developers Platform by refining and validating challenge knowledge entries;
• Support the challenge crew in growing coaching curricula and knowledge-sharing supplies for builders, monetary establishments, and policymakers;
• Assist in the event of economic fashions by analyzing value constructions and studying the influence of various capital sorts (e.g., grants, debt, fairness) on challenge bankability; and
• Support the crew in monitoring financing commitments and rising funding mechanisms throughout the clear vitality ecosystem.

Monitoring:

• Support challenge companions in knowledge assortment workouts and market analysis on local weather finance developments; and
• Support with knowledge evaluation, platform efficiency monitoring, monitoring of consumer expertise and suggestions and common challenge reporting.

Engagement in Climate Finance, Policy & Advocacy:

• Contribute to initiatives selling sustainable vitality finance and monitoring financing commitments in the clear vitality ecosystem;
• Gain insights into viability gaps and the function of varied monetary devices in driving sustainable vitality initiatives; and
• Participate in advocacy efforts to lift consciousness for sustainable vitality finance insurance policies and help in stakeholder engagement initiatives.

Communications & Social Media:

• Use social media channels to advertise challenge visibility, sustainability practices, and advocacy efforts;
• Create and publish partaking digital content material, together with posts, movies, and graphics, to share throughout social media channels (e.g. Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn).

Trainees can even be anticipated to take part in every day actions and authorised website visits in addition to attending supplementary coaching programmes organized by SEforALL.

Training parts and studying components to incorporate, however not restricted to:

• Undertake comfortable expertise coaching classes to help skilled growth of STEM Trainees:
  • Career growth (together with resume growth, interviewing, networking, and mentorship); and
  • Communications and social media coaching.
• Undertake technical coaching classes to boost technical understanding of the vitality sector with a give attention to challenge operations and local weather finance, together with:
  • Knowledge of vitality implementation, gender & youth-responsive vitality actions, and website evaluation methodologies;
  • Appropriate use of economic modeling instruments, viability evaluation, and knowledge platforms;
  • Familiarity with monitoring instruments and framework (market analysis, efficiency monitoring, and reporting); and
  • Introduction to local weather finance mechanisms and capital constructions for vitality actions.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Women in STEM Traineeship