The Young Leaders Program

Application Deadline: Ongoing
Job Title: Young Leaders Programme Fellow

Location: Lagos, NG

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Description

The McKinsey & Company one-year Young Leaders Program (YLP) is an internship open only to Nigerians doing their mandatory national youth service (NYSC). Interns work as integral members of our teams, experiencing McKinsey life firsthand.

The Young Leaders Program helps to develop exceptional young local African talent into real leaders. At the end of the program, high-performing Fellows may receive an offer to join McKinsey as a full-time consultant.

Benefits:

When you join McKinsey Lagos, you will have the opportunity to contribute to different industries, gain access to the best and most current thinking on critical issues, and work with some of the key industrial and regional decision-makers.
You’ll join a community of smart and interesting colleagues, representing a variety of backgrounds, and be able to tap into one of the largest networks in the world.

Apply Now for the 2015 McKinsey & Co Young Leaders Program (YLP) for Nigerians.

Application Deadline Extended: March 15, 2015.

Youth Scholarships: 1 August 2015 at 5PM EST.

Women Deliver 2016 Conference on 16-19 May 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark,

The Young Leaders Program is a three-year fellowship program for young people (under the age of 30) who are passionate about maternal, sexual, and reproductive health and rights.

Women Deliver works to develop the skills of youth advocates through our online learning communities, seed grant funding, and high-level networking and media opportunities. In addition to being awarded a full scholarship to attend the Women Deliver 2016 Conference on 16-19 May 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Young Leaders will also have the opportunity to:

Participate in capacity-building e-learning opportunities that cover sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, advocacy, communications, proposal writing, project management, and monitoring and evaluation.
Apply for seed grant funding to implement a community-based project.
Make connections with a wide range of people working in the field, including high-level policymakers, donors, and journalists.
Join a network of former and current Young Leaders as well as professional mentors to increase advocacy around sexual and reproductive health and rights in their home countries.
Attend a two-day youth pre-conference workshop on advocacy around maternal health, with a focus on communications and new technologies, and serve as a youth representative at the conference.

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Youth Scholarships

Youth Scholarships to attend the Women Deliver 2016 Conference are awarded to incredible youth advocates, under the age of 30, who are working to advance the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women in their community and around the world.

This opportunity includes:

A scholarship to attend the conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in May 2016
A chance to serve as a youth representative at the conference and connect with the wide range of policymakers, donors, activists, and journalists in attendance

To apply for a youth scholarship, fill out the application here.

To apply for the Young Leaders Program, fill out the application here.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Women Deliver 2016 Conference

2015 McKinsey & Company Young Leaders Program (YLP) for Nigerians.

2016 Women Deliver Young Leaders Program and youth scholarships to attend the Women Deliver 2016 Conference, Denmark