The 2023 Virtual Internship Program of the African Development Bank (AfDB)
The leading pan-African development organization, the African Development Bank (AfDB), was founded in 1964 and works to advance social progress and economic growth throughout the continent. Of the 81 member states, 54 are regional member countries in Africa.
Through inclusive and sustainable economic growth, the Bank’s development program aims to considerably reduce poverty by providing the financial and technical assistance for innovative projects.
Five major areas (High 5s) have been identified for scaling up, all of which will accelerate our delivery for Africa and help to sharply focus the Ten-Year Strategy’s (2013–2022) objectives while also ensuring greater developmental impact. These areas are energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration, and improving the quality of life for Africans.
The Program’s participants are chosen through a competitive process that takes into account the Bank’s business requirements.
Goals:
The program’s overarching goals are to:
Give students a chance to work at the African Development Bank and gain professional and hands-on experience.
Give the Bank a pool of prospective applicants for use in upcoming hiring.
Nevertheless, candidates shouldn’t anticipate that their internship would result in a job offer from the Bank right away.
The Subject Areas Needed for the:
Economics, Agriculture, Private Sector Development, Human Capital Development (Education and Health), Environment, Finance, Infrastructure Development, Human Resources Management, Information Technology, Communications, Law, Internal Audit, Budget, Governance, or any other field of study that the Bank may deem relevant to its operations are the fields of study from which interns are selected.
Students who are working on projects that directly impact the Bank’s purpose will receive special consideration.
Schedule for the First Session of the Program in 2023:
Rules and Regulations
Each candidate will be awarded an internship for a minimum of three (3) months and a maximum of six (6) months. Each candidate is only permitted to complete the internship once.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still going strong, therefore interns won’t need to travel to their duty site. The internship will be conducted virtually from each intern’s location. In order to enable seamless and continuous remote working, interns are therefore expected to have access to a personal computer, a dependable internet connection, and a comfortable living space.
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The Bank may, under unusual circumstances, permit on-site internships in situations where the tasks and responsibilities to be allocated to interns cannot be completed online.
In these situations:
Interns will be in charge of their maintenance and, if necessary, air transportation to and from the Bank’s site.
The only interns permitted entry into the Bank’s office space will be those who have received the full COVID-19 vaccination.
The Bank will help the concerned interns get their admission and residency permits to the best of its ability.
The Bank will provide interns with medical insurance coverage for the duration of their internship.
A monthly stipend will be awarded to qualified interns.
Qualification Standards:
Applicants must fulfill the following requirements in order to be eligible for an internship:
Must be no older than thirty (30) years old at the start of the internship program, and must have reached the age of majority in their nation of nationality or origin.
be enrolled full-time in a master’s program in an accredited public or private higher education institution.
After receiving such a degree, the individual has one (1) year to apply for an internship.
be citizens of one of the African Development Bank’s member nations.
Provide a copy of the aforementioned degree or a letter from their school attesting to their enrollment.
Strategic Focus fields: The gender strategy and the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy (TYS) are in line with the particular disciplines and specialized professional fields. Focus will be on the following areas in addition to those found in the Bank’s job families:
Energy, power, climate change, and green growth
Human and social development, agriculture
Infrastructure, the Private Sector, and Industrialization
Governance, Statistics, and Knowledge Management
monetary
Corporate Services and Legal Human Resources: IT, Language Services, Procurement & General Services, HR Management Audit, and Anti-Corruption Assessment
External Relations and Communication
Public Affairs
Gender-Related Environmental and Social Evaluation
Application Procedure:
Applicants will only be considered if they submit an online complete application and attach a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV).
In 2023, the Bank will host two (2) internship programs. The first session of 2023, which runs from March to June, is the subject of this announcement. The second session will be announced in April 2023 and run from June to December of that same year.
In the event that you experience technical difficulties submitting your application, please email HR Direct
HRDirect@AFDB.ORG4
with a detailed explanation of the situation and/or a screenshot of the issue.
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