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ECOWAS BANK FOR INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (EBID) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF YOUNG GRADUATES(INTERNSHIP)

Application Deadline: May 31, 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the financial arm of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is an international financial institution belonging to the 15 ECOWAS Member States which are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Its headquarters is in Lomé in the Togolese Republic. As part of the implementation of its young graduates program, the EBID wishes to recruit young graduates from universities and major schools in the West African sub-region and the diaspora.

ELIGIBILITY:

Can apply for this program, candidates who are nationals of ECOWAS member countries meeting the following conditions:

be aged 30 or less at the time of recruitment;

hold a higher education diploma such as bac +5 (MASTER, DESS) or an equivalent diploma in line with the Bank’s operations, in particular private sector operations, public sector operations, infrastructure, risk management, asset/liability management, finance, auditing, legal advice, communications and marketing, language services, or any other field of study relevant to the Bank’s operations;

be able to work in a team and under pressure in a multicultural context;

have a good capacity for analysis and synthesis, sense of organization, planning and setting priorities;

have a good command of relevant information research techniques (banking analyses, statistics, monitoring of competitive trends, etc.), from external sources, mainly electronic and other professionally recognized media;

have a good command of office tools (Excel, Word, Access and Power Point);

have an excellent ability to communicate in French and/or English and/or Portuguese, and a good knowledge of one of the two other languages).

BENEFIT:

In accordance with the provisions governing the program, young graduates are assigned to departments to meet specific needs and are not recruited to fill vacant positions. They are, however, considered as civil servants of the bank for the duration of their appointment and benefit from the conditions of service corresponding to grade P1-1 of the Bank’s classification and remuneration scale.

Various allowances will be added to the salary corresponding to this grade (position adjustment, housing and transport allowances, family allowances if applicable). In addition, young graduates will be affiliated to the Bank’s retirement fund and will benefit during the period of their appointment from group insurance coverage covering the following risks: death and permanent, total and definitive disability, temporary incapacity for work. , partial permanent disability, illness, individual accidents.

APPLY

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND DESTINATION AUSTRALIA SCHOLARSHIP (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS)

Application Deadline: June 17, 2024.

LOCATION: Australia

The Destination Australia scholarship is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education. It aligns with the National Strategy for International Education 2025. 

The scholarship’s objective is to:

attract and support study in regional Australia

grow and develop regional Australian tertiary education providers

offer students a high-quality learning experience.

ELIGIBILITY:

You’re eligible if you:

are an international student

hold a student visa for the scholarship’s duration

are a commencing student

are UQ alumni commencing a different program (for example, Master’s after completing a Bachelor’s degree)

have a full offer to study an eligible program delivered entirely at the UQ Gatton campus in 2024 (you don’t need to accept your full offer by the scholarship application deadline).

And you: will study full-time via Internal study mode at UQ’s Gatton campus for the scholarship’s duration

reside in a regional area of Australia for the scholarship’s duration as defined by the Australian Statistical Geography Standard Remoteness Structure 2016 (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

BENEFIT:

AUD $15,000 per year

APPLY