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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.

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GOOGLE PHD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Application Opens: March 28, 2024; Deadline:  May 8, 2024 11:59:59pm UTC-12 (AOE)

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor. Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Google’s mission is to foster inclusive research communities and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply. We currently offer Fellowships in Africa, Australia, Canada, East Asia, Europe, India, Latin America, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States.

ELIGIBILITY:

Students and professionals are welcome to apply to the PhD Fellowship program.

PhD students must be nominated by their university. Applications should be submitted by an official representative of the university during the application window. Please see the FAQ for more information.

Students must remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.

Google employees, and their spouses, children, and members of their household are not eligible.

Students that are already supported by a comparable industry award are not eligible. Government or non-profit organization funding is exempt.

Past awardees from the PhD Fellowship program are not eligible to apply again.

For incoming PhD students (Africa, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia),

Grant of the Fellowship does not mean admission to a PhD program. The awardee must separately apply and be accepted to a PhD program in computer science (or an adjacent field) at an eligible institution.

Grant of the Fellowship will be subject to the rules and guidelines applicable in the institution where the awardee registers for the PhD program.

BENEFIT:

Students receive named Fellowships which include a monetary award. The funds are given directly to the university to be distributed to cover the student’s expenses and stipend as appropriate. In addition, the student will be matched with a Google Research Mentor:

Up to 3 year Fellowship

US $12K to cover stipend and other research related activities, travel expenses including overseas travel and Google Research Mentor

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