National Service Personnel – Youth Employment & Skills
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ACET is hiring a National Service Personnel to support its Youth Employment and Skills program in Accra. The role involves research, event coordination, knowledge management, and administrative support. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in a related field and strong research and writing skills.
- National Service placement with a leading African economic policy institute
- Based in Accra supporting youth employment and skills programs
- Requires undergraduate degree in Development Studies, Economics, Statistics, or related field
- Strong research, writing, and Microsoft Office skills required
- Involves event coordination, knowledge management, and policy research support
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Original source description
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) is an economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long-term growth through transformation. We produce research, offer policy advice, and galvanize action for African countries to develop their economies, reduce poverty, and improve livelihoods for all their people. We are the pre-eminent African organization advancing African solutions to African challenges.
Project Background:
The ACET Youth Employment and Skills (YES) team is seeking to recruit a National Service Personnel who will support the department’s day-to-day program implementation, coordinate logistics for events and meetings, manage digital content and knowledge resources, and provide administrative support.
Job Title:
NSP- YES
Reporting Line:
Head of YES
Accra
Job Summary
• The YES work program will broadly focus on providing support in research, analysis, peer learning and policy engagement to the YES team.
Roles and
Responsibilities
- Work closely with ACET’s Youth Employment and Skills (YES) program to: conduct desk research and compile information on youth employment, education, TVET, skills development, and labor market trends to support program implementation, policy analysis, and knowledge products.
- Assist in preparing reports, presentations, briefs, routine correspondence, and other programme documentation, while supporting knowledge management and records management activities.
- Support the day-to-day management of the YES-PACT Portal by creating and organizing content, maintaining knowledge resources, monitoring user engagement, and supporting content dissemination.
- Support the planning and coordination of YES events, meetings, workshops, stakeholder engagements, and other departmental initiatives, including preparing meeting materials, documenting proceedings, and liaising with ACET’s Communications and Events teams.
- Assist the Program Assistant in maintaining the YES Team Tracker by updating work plans, monitoring deliverables, following up on action items, and supporting overall programme coordination.
- Assist in coordinating the ACET Youth Wider Engagement, including participant engagement, communications, scheduling, logistics, documentation, and other implementation activities.
- Perform any other duties or
Experience
Education/
• Candidates should have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in Development Studies, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Candidates must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Candidates should possess excellent research and writing skills. Special consideration is given to
in research, data collection, analysis, and report writing .
• Candidates should excel in team environments, be comfortable working with limited oversight, and possess outstanding interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Candidates should be able to learn quickly, adapt to new concepts, work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
• Candidates should possess strong interest in youth employment, skills development, education, labor market issues, economic transformation.
ACET Values
ACET strives to ensure an equitable and merit-based workplace. We promote ongoing employee development to strengthen staff capacity and further professional goals. We operate around five core values:
• Pioneering: We try to push the envelope in the spirit of being a “think and do” tank.
• Respect: We believe that in respecting each other, we will grow together.
• Integrity: We are transparent and accountable in our actions.
• Collaboration: We believe our best results are achieved by working well together.
• Excellence: We aspire to the highest level of critical thinking to solve difficult problems.
Hiring Policies
ACET draws from a highly diversified pan-African and global talent base and offers equal opportunities to all. We are committed to ensuring that employees are remunerated, recruited, and developed based on skills and suitability for the work performed. ACET does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, or disability. ACET complies with and operates within the Labor Act of Ghana. No recruitment literature or advertisements will imply a preference for any one group of applicants unless there is a general occupational qualification that limits the post to a particular group, in which case this must be clearly stated.
WORKING AT ACET
ACET is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace. We have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and harassment of any kind.
Accra
How To Apply
Interested applicants should email their CV and an accompanying Cover Letter explaining why you are the most suitable candidate for the position via:
[email protected]
. Contact details of 3 references will also be required.
07 September, 2026
Interviews will be held either virtually or in-person if the candidate is based in Ghana. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply!
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