Partnership Support Intern
Overview
The Partnership Support Intern will provide support to the Partnerships team in strengthening partnerships with the European Union, Belgium, and Luxembourg to support sustainable development, governance, resilience, and crisis response initiatives across Africa. The role offers practical experience in an international professional environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day follow-up of the EU-funded partnership pipeline, tracking opportunities and updating internal systems.
- Assist in maintaining pipeline trackers, consolidating updates, and flagging gaps and deadlines.
- Prepare draft status overviews and summary tables of pipeline projects.
- Support follow-up with country office and regional colleagues on outstanding inputs.
- Provide documentation and administrative support to project verification and audit exercises.
- Maintain organized trackers of verification requests, submissions, and follow-up actions.
- Support the preparation of background notes and response packages for verification exercises.
- Support the logistical and substantive preparation of RBA missions and visits to Brussels.
- Assist in preparing pre-read materials, briefing packs, and agendas for visiting RBA stakeholders.
- Provide notetaking and follow-up documentation during missions, workshops, and partner meetings.
- Help coordinate practical arrangements with internal and external counterparts.
- Support the updating and formatting of briefing materials and slide decks.
- Identify opportunities to communicate results from partnerships and collaborate with communications colleagues.
- Monitor key institutional websites and platforms for relevant Africa-related updates.
Required Experience
Computer proficiency in standard software applications (MS Office, Excel, Word, Powerpoint).
Qualifications
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements: be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as Bachelor’s degree or equivalent); be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a Master’s programme or higher) preferably in the field of International Relations, Development Studies, Economics or other relevant discipline; have recently graduated with a university degree as defined above, and, if selected, must start the internship within one year of graduation; be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship programme and undertake the internship as part of the programme.