Young Professionals Program (YPP)
African Development Bank Group Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Three-year leadership development program at the African Development Bank in which young professionals rotate across departments, with coaching and mentoring, before graduating into a staff role.
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About
Also: international staff terms; three rotations across Bank departments; mentor, coach and peer buddy; promotion on successful completion.
Who can apply: Citizen of an AfDB member country, 32 or younger at application, relevant master's degree, at least three years' experience in the Bank's priority areas, English and/or French, willing to live in Abidjan.
Free to apply.
Annual call; the 2026 cohort call closed in late 2025.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: cv.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Designed as a three-year leadership development opportunity”
Who can apply
- Open to working professionals, students, researchers
- Citizen of an AfDB member country, 32 or younger at application, relevant master's degree, at least three years' experience in the Bank's priority areas, English and/or French, willing to live in Abidjan.
What you will need
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
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