ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program 2026 – Cohort 11 – YOA

Deadline: June 21, 2026

Applications are invited for the 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 growth, sensible expertise, and analysis skills to suppose in additional modern methods to resolve 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 growth course of. Trainings will deal with useful resource governance in Africa and past, transformational management, skilled and profession growth, digital communication and know-how expertise. Essentially, interns can be uncovered to the requisite instruments and skillsets wanted to set and obtain real looking private {and professional} targets to succeed on this planet of labor whereas upholding moral management.

Responsibilities

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

• Contribute to writing analysis reviews and coverage briefs on the vitality and extractives sector of Africa
• Support stakeholder engagement actions on ACEP’s outputs and place on vitality and extractive sector points in Africa
• Contribute to the planning, implementation, and analysis of annual applications
• Support organizational growth 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 growth by:
  • Opportunities for coaching and growth
  • Coaching, mentorship, and peer help
  • Creating room for creativity and innovation
  • A beneficiant stipend and lunch all through this system.
• Decent lodging for worldwide NextGen Leaders.
• An authorized 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 vitality and extractive sources contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth. Among different {qualifications}, the applicant should possess:

• Relevant tutorial {qualifications}, ideally in any or a mix of economics (together with vitality), engineering (petroleum/electrical), oil and gasoline administration, public coverage, legislation, political financial system, growth research, growth finance, venture administration, communications, statistics, arithmetic, and so forth.
• Good writing expertise with readability and logical stream of thought
• Adequate information of related qualitative and quantitative analytical instruments (R, Stata, Eviews, NVivo, Atlas.ti and so forth.)
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet a number of deadlines
• Good interpersonal expertise and group spirit
• The skill to suppose creatively and take the initiative in fixing issues
• An excellent sense of possession and duty for his/her selections and actions
• A powerful sense of management

Application

Applicants are required to supply solutions to the questions requested within the application type and add the required doc as one PDF file within the applicable part. Applications shut at 11:59 PM GMT on Sunday, twenty first June 2026.

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For extra data, go to ACEP Program.