Young Professionals Internship Program
Course(s) Offered: Agriculture
Course Level: Internship
Provider: Africa Lead; USAID
Country to Study in: ECOWAS countries
Scholarship Description
The Africa Lead II plan inward partnership amongst the USAID invites applications from candidates interested inward its Agricultural Development Young Professionals Internship Program (Agriculture Internship Program).
The Africa Lead II’s Agriculture Internship Program aims to facilitate to a greater extent than efficient agricultural production, stronger agribusinesses in addition to agricultural evolution institutions, a to a greater extent than straight link betwixt NARS in addition to farmers, in addition to greater value improver inward the agriculture sector across Africa.
The wide finish is to back upwards skills transfer in addition to technological know-how that volition assistance African agribusinesses in addition to organizations to innovate, ameliorate their commercial viability in addition to catalyze agricultural transformation, hence contributing to improved nutrient security.
The Africa Lead II Program welcomes applications from candidates interested inward pursuing these immature professionals evolution opportunities. Nationals of ECOWAS countries are welcome to apply.
Eligibility
General Minimum Required Qualifications:
Course(s) Offered: Agriculture
Course Level: Internship
Provider: Africa Lead; USAID
Country to Study in: ECOWAS countries
Scholarship Description
The Africa Lead II plan inward partnership amongst the USAID invites applications from candidates interested inward its Agricultural Development Young Professionals Internship Program (Agriculture Internship Program).
The Africa Lead II’s Agriculture Internship Program aims to facilitate to a greater extent than efficient agricultural production, stronger agribusinesses in addition to agricultural evolution institutions, a to a greater extent than straight link betwixt NARS in addition to farmers, in addition to greater value improver inward the agriculture sector across Africa.
The wide finish is to back upwards skills transfer in addition to technological know-how that volition assistance African agribusinesses in addition to organizations to innovate, ameliorate their commercial viability in addition to catalyze agricultural transformation, hence contributing to improved nutrient security.
The Africa Lead II Program welcomes applications from candidates interested inward pursuing these immature professionals evolution opportunities. Nationals of ECOWAS countries are welcome to apply.
General Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s grade Minimum, addition two years of relevant administrative or technical professional person experience; or a Master’s grade preferred amongst 1 twelvemonth of relevant administrative or technical professional person experience
- Strong organizational skills in addition to attending to detail
- BS/BA grade required, advance grade preferred
- Excellent oral in addition to written communication skills
- Must go able to move in addition to go based inside Regional Institution inward West Africa during the entire duration of the placement (minimum 1 twelvemonth assignment)
- Experience inward West African regional agricultural evolution Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 plus
- International Travel in addition to champaign related sense inward urban in addition to rural African settings desirable
- Fluency inward both French in addition to English linguistic communication required
Citizens of all ECOWAS fellow member countries may apply.
These include Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo in addition to Cape Verde.
Participating Institutions
Africa Lead II, the African-led agricultural transformation; AND
U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative.
Number of awards / Internship positions
The next positions are opened upwards for applications to back upwards the advancement of African Agricultural Development Regional hosting entities:
- Entry to Mid -Level Communications Associates
- Entry to Mid -Level Program Planning Associate
- Entry to Mid -Level Monitoring & Evaluation Associate
- Entry to Mid -Level Human Resources Associate
- National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) Scientists -Associate Program Fellows
Placement price volition go for a menstruum of 12 months amongst anticipated postings inward ECOWAS fellow member states
Scholarship benefits
Housing, monthly stipend, living allowances, round-trip airfare in addition to related move expenses to worksite volition go covered yesteryear the program. These 12 calendar month immature professionals evolution opportunities are not guarantees for total fourth dimension exercise upon successful completion of the placement.
Method of Application
General Application requirements:
All candidates must submit the next required documents:
- Curriculum Vitae
- 1-Page Cover missive of the alphabet highlighting your mightiness to contribute your skills towards enhancing capacity of a regional scheme involved inward Food security. Kindly specify your strengths in addition to weaknesses in addition to mightiness to accommodate to novel mutli-cultural environment.
- 3 References: kindly render two professional person references in addition to 1 personal reference
It is of import to download the Official Call for the Africa Lead II Agriculture Internship Program for consummate data on the responsibilities in addition to required skills for each seat in addition to every bit good to take in the official website (link to it is below).
DEADLINES:
The opening appointment for this telephone phone started on August 15, 2014 in addition to volition closed on September 5, 2014.
PLEASE NOTE:
Africa Lead II—the Feed the Future: Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation Program—supports the advancement of agricultural transformation inward Africa every bit proposed yesteryear the African Union Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP).
Simultaneously, Africa Lead II contributes to the Feed the Future (FTF) goals of reduced hunger in addition to poverty yesteryear edifice the capacity of Champions—defined every bit men in addition to women leaders inward agriculture—to develop, lead, in addition to contend the policies, structures in addition to processes needed for the transformation process.
Africa Lead II is ane of the projects of Development Alternatives, Inc., (DAI). Incorporated inward 1970, DAI made its earliest grade through a serial of analytical studies. In 1973, it won a contract to analyze 36 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects inward Latin America in addition to Africa.
DAI industrial plant on the frontlines of international development. Transforming ideas into action—action into impact. It is committed to shaping a to a greater extent than livable world.
Application Deadline: v September 2014
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
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