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Africa Centre for Energy Policy Internship Opening

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy has a new Internship Opening. The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship that intends to balance a dose of theory with real-world application and equip participants with the requisite multi-disciplinary intellectual development, practical skills, and research abilities to think in more innovative ways to solve complex governance challenges. The Program is also a strategy to build a pipeline of young pan-African leaders to provide a sustainable path for good governance.

Responsibilities:

The NextGen Leaders will deliver timely and quality evidence-based policy analysis, training, and advocacy through strong collaborations, ensuring that the ACEP remains a thought-leader in Africa’s energy and the extractive policy space.

Contribute to writing research reports and policy briefs on Africa’s energy and extractives sector.
Support media engagement activities on ACEP’s outputs and position on Africa’s energy and extractive sector issues.
Contribute to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of annual programmes
Support organizational development activities.
Support in resource mobilization efforts, including grants and proposal writing.
Contribute to programme management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities.

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Eligibility Criteria:

Applicant must be a young African who demonstrates a passion for ensuring the vast extractive resources in Africa translates to sustainable and inclusive development. Among others, the candidate must possess the following:

Relevant academic qualifications, preferably in any or a combination of economics (including energy), engineering (petroleum/electrical), oil and gas management, public policy, law, political economy, development studies, development finance, project management, communications, statistics, and mathematics etc.
Good writing skills with clarity and logical flow of thought.
Adequate knowledge of relevant qualitative and quantitative analytical tools (R, Stata, Eviews, NVivo, Atlas.ti etc.).
Ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet multiple deadlines.
Good interpersonal skills and team spirit.
The ability to think creatively and take the initiative in solving problems.
A good sense of ownership and responsibility for his/her decisions and actions.
A strong sense of leadership.