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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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TURN.IO CHAT FOR GenAI ACCELERATOR GRANTS PROGRAMME

Application Deadline: 31st of March 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility. The first Chat for Impact: GenAI Accelerator will amplify the impact of ten organizations, assisting them in creating and implementing innovative LLM-powered chat solutions in the fields of education, healthcare, and economic mobility.

ELIGIBILITY:

They are looking for impact-driven organizations working in health, education, and economic mobility with a well-defined theory of change or business case.

Organizations should be committed to leveraging AI to support a secure, private and personalized chat service.

They should demonstrate a strong commitment to building real-world applications and possess the organizational capacity to engage in the accelerator program and sustain the service long-term.

Candidates for the program need to have existing digital services in production (not necessarily AI-powered).

BENEFIT:

Grant funding to the value of $ 35,000 with a further $ 50,000 each for the top three best-performing organizations.

Access to a share of $ 500,000 in openai API credits

Technical, strategic and governance support from expert advisors at openai and Turn.io

Mentorship & guidance as they build their AI-enabled chat service

Peer learning opportunities from the broader Chat for Impact Accelerator Alumni

Post-program support to sustain and grow momentum

Turn.io software license for six months valued at $ 3,000

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