ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) Young Professionals Programme 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 30, 2026

Applications are open for the EBID Young Professionals Programme 2026. The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is a global monetary establishment owned by the fifteen Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), particularly Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The headquarters of the Bank is in Lome, Togolese Republic.

The mission of EBID is to work in direction of the emergence of an economically robust, industrialized, affluent West Africa which is totally built-in inside the area and world economic system as a way to reap the benefits of the alternatives supplied by globalization. Within the framework of its Young Professionals Programme, EBID seeks to recruit younger graduates from universities and different tertiary establishments of studying within the West African sub area and the diaspora.

The Young Professionals Recruitment Programme

The programme is designed for excessive calibre younger professionals who is not going to be greater than thirty (30) years on the time of recruitment. The chosen candidates shall be appointed as Young Trainee Professional Staff within the Bank below a two (2)-year mounted time period contract. The candidates will observe a probationary interval of six (6) months throughout which every social gathering might terminate the connection with out prior discover. However, the place the efficiency of the Young Trainee Professional Staff is deemed to be passable throughout the probationary interval, their appointment shall be transformed into an open-ended contract which suggests they are going to be everlasting members of workers of the Bank.

During their appointment, the Young Trainee Professional Staff shall be posted to completely different Departments on a rotational foundation to make them aware of actions of the Bank and combine them right into a staff the place they are going to make optimistic contributions. Furthermore, the Trainee Professional Staff will work below the supervision of senior workers as a way to develop into acquainted with the varied Departments, Policies and Programmes of the Bank.

Benefits

• Various allowances (put up adjustment allowance, housing and transport allowance, household grant the place vital) shall be added to the wage.
• During the interval of their appointment the younger professionals shall be admitted into the Bank’s pension scheme. The younger professionals shall even be entitled to insurance coverage cowl in opposition to: loss of life and everlasting incapacity, whole and everlasting incapacity, short-term occupational incapacity, partial everlasting incapacity, private accident and illness.

Eligibility

The residents of ECOWAS Members States who fulfill the next standards are invited to apply:

• Less than 30 years of age on the time of recruitment;
• Master’s diploma or equal qualification in fields associated to actions of the Bank particularly, Asset/Liabilities Management, Audit, Communication and Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Business Administration, Law, Accounting, Economics, IT, Human assets, Infrastructure, non-public sector operations, public sector operations, Risk Management, Language Services or a qualification in some other space that’s related to the actions of the Bank;
• Ability to work in a staff and below strain inside a multicultural surroundings;
• Analytical and organizational expertise, capability to plan and decide priorities;
• Good analysis expertise for acquiring pertinent data (banking evaluation, statistics, monitoring aggressive traits and so on.) from exterior sources particularly, digital information bases and different media admitted for skilled functions.
• Good data of workplace automation methods (Excel, Word;
  Access and Power Point);
• Fluent in English/French/Portuguese with a working data of one of many different two languages.

Conditions of service

In conformity with the foundations governing the programme, the younger professionals involved shall be posted to Departments in response to particular wants. They shall not be recruited to fill vacant positions. However, all through the period of their appointment, they shall be thought of as Professional workers of the Bank. Furthermore, their circumstances of service shall correspond to these for grade P1-1 within the EBID workers classification and wage scale.

Recruitment Criteria and Procedure

Shortlisted candidates shall be invited for written and oral checks on the headquarters of the Bank in Lome. Candidates shall be examined for:

• Technical expertise,
• Potentials,
• Personality and stage of motivation,
• Computer expertise,
• Good verbal communication and writing expertise in not lower than two

(2) of the three (3) working languages of the Bank.

Application file

Interested candidates who meet the factors listed above ought to ahead their application file to the Bank in paper type. The file will comprise:

• A detailled curriculum vitae;
• Copy of {qualifications} obtained;
• Copy of nationwide identification card or passport;
• Copy of beginning certificates;
• A letter of motivation indicating causes for taking part within the programme, areas of competence/curiosity, related expertise and profession prospects.

Interested candidates ought to submit no later than October 30, 2026, their onerous copies application dossiers in a sealed envelope marked “2026 Young Professionals Recruitment Programme” addressed to:

ECOWAS BANK FOR INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (EBID)
128, Boulevard du 13 janvier, B.P. 2704, Lomé – Togo.
Tel: +228 22 21 68 64

N.B.: Only shortlisted candidates shall be invited for interview. EBID reserves the best to withdraw the notified vacancies or supply place at a decrease grade.

For extra data, go to ECOWAS.