Apply For African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) 2018

The African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC), established in 2010, is a continental development program that promotes youth volunteerism in Africa. The program aims to deepen the status of young people as key actors in Africa’s development targets and goals, enhancing their participation in policy development as well as design and implementation of relevant interventions towards the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063, ‘The Africa we want’. It brings people together to share skills, knowledge, creativity and learning to build a more integrated, prosperous and
peaceful Continent driven by its citizens. The volunteering opportunities are intended to build professionalism and a sense of responsibility among the participants, thus enhancing their employability.
Young African professionals are recruited to serve for a period of 12 months as AU Volunteers in an AU Member State other than their own. The next intake of volunteers for deployment in 2018 will be from the 11th – 31st of July 2017.


Eligibility Criteria:

Applicants have to meet the following criteria:
1. Citizen of an AU Member State living on the continent or the Diaspora;
2. Aged between 18 – 35 years;
3. Have a post-secondary certified qualification(s) (TVET, Bachelor’s degree or equivalent)
4. Available in 2018 to dedicate 12 (twelve) months for volunteer work;
5. Willing to live and work in another AU Member State;
6. Is proficient in at least one AU working language (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese);
7. Has at least one year verifiable volunteering experience and one year professional work experience.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should Click here to Apply
Application Deadline: July 31st 2017
https://www.africa-youth.org/opportunity-apply-au-youth-volunteer-2018/

Source: https://www.graduatejobsng.com/apply-african-union-youth-volunteer-corps-au-yvc-2018/

African Union Recruiting Youth Volunteer Corps


African Union Recruiting Youth Volunteer Corps
The African Union has started the process of recruiting Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) for all its member states across the continent.

AU-YVC is a continental development program that recruits and works with youth volunteers, to work in all Member States across the African Union.

AU-YVC promotes volunteering to deepen the status of young people in Africa as key participants in the delivery of Africa’s human development targets and goals.

It brings people together to share skills, knowledge, creativity and learning to build a more integrated Continent and by implication strengthen Africa’s relevance in the globalized world.

The concept is in line with the African Youth Charter as well as the Decision of AU Head of States and Governments in Assembly/AU/Dec.274 (XVI) January 2010, to set up a continental Volunteer initiative.

AU-YVC was officially launched on the 3rd of December 2010 in Abuja, Nigeria, in the presence of H.E. President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ministers of Youth from across the AU, high level AU representatives, Partners and other Volunteer Organizations and Africa’s Youth at large.

AU Youth Volunteers would serve primarily in the following fields:

Education, Health and HIV/ AIDS, Peace and Security, Information and Communications Technology, Business and Youth Entrepreneurship, Agriculture and Environment

To find out more and register for the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps visit https://au.int/web/en/volunteer/african-union-youth-volunteer-corps

INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

Citizens of African Union Member States are invited to apply for Internship Programme

For internship opportunities register online at

https://www.au.int/web/en/welcome-auc-internship-program or email internship@africa-union.org.

http://www.nta.ng/news/20170712-african-union-recruiting-youth-volunteer-corps/

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