Deadline: 18th April, 2025.
The Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship programme is one of UNFPA Ghana’s flagship programmes which aligns with the organisation’s mandate of ensuring that every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
During the 12-month fellowship, fellows are expected to provide insight and contribute ideas and efforts to support the Country Office’s efforts, to become even more responsive to youth-related issues within Ghana. As such, these selected young people work from the UNFPA Ghana Country Office’s Orange Loft, a specially designed, youth-friendly space that provides the needed flexibility for young people to work and collaborate, while supporting them to leverage existing modern technologies to innovate solutions that will improve reproductive health outcomes among other things.
Benefits
- Fellows are taken through rigorous training and capacity-building activities which are aimed at building their leadership, public speaking, research, entrepreneurial and networking skills. The fellowship also serves as a platform for equipping one with knowledge and skills about the UN system, especially about UNFPA Ghana, international relations and diplomacy; in chartering their career paths and professional development.
- Fellows gain one-on-one mentorship training with high-levelled professionals.
- Fellows undertake a mandatory internship with other UN agencies, CSOs/NGOs, public and private institutions.
Eligibility
The applicant must be:
- Aged between 18 – 30 years
- A graduate of a tertiary institution in Ghana
- Able to commit to the Fellowship’s duration (one year)
- Proactive and possess strong interpersonal skills
- Proficient in the English Language for all communication purposes
- Passionate about sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues and demonstrate a desire to make a difference in their community: specifically, demonstrate interest and dedication to development issues established through either volunteer experience, work experience, affiliations with a youth network or NGO, in areas of UNFPA’s mandate.
Application Documents
You need an application letter (not more than one page), a CV/resume and legal evidence of your age (birth certificate, voter’s ID, passport, drivers licence, etc).
For more information and application.
