The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organizational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
British Embassy in Ethiopia is seeking to recruit a high calibre candidate for its human resources team. The jobholder is expected to support in improving the people practices; such as recruitment, induction, data management, etc. and has the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
Position: Internship
Essential qualifications, skills and experience: The opportunity is available to those who graduated in 2023 and 2024 holding a Bachelor of Arts degree of any field of study and with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00.
Proficient English and Amharic.
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience:
Experience of working in a People or Corporate role.
Demonstrate resilience with the ability to work in a busy, challenging and rapidly changing environment.
Excellent knowledge of organisational and HR information technology systems and tools.
Required behaviors:
Leadership, Managing a Quality Service, Working Together
The purpose of the internship positions is to support young people with the potential to make a lasting contribution to Ethiopia’s development to make a great start to their professional career. The placement will focus on developing knowledge and experience in specific parts of our portfolio and learning about the broader development sector upon completion of the placement. We are launching an internship programme because:
We want to lead by example. Lack of work experience is a key challenge young graduates face as they enter the workforce. By offering internships – which are critical paths to bridge this transition – British Embassy Ethiopia hopes to play an exemplary role to other organizations in the sector. We plan to lead by example in communicating the importance of corporate social responsibility in contributing to youth skills and employ ability.
We want to give space for development of skills and aim to equip entry-level work force with proper competency skills. British Embassy Ethiopia offers a chance of working in a diversified and dynamic context and aims to embed work-relevant skills, information and experience by opening opportunities to support teams within and cross office activities.
We want our work to benefit from young people’s insights and we want to infuse our embassy with insights, energy, out of the box thinking of Ethiopian youth, as we strive to make our programmes more effective and relevant to youth.
Roles and responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be embedded in one of the teams in the Embassy. The candidate will work with teams to identify and coordinate events, will be engaged in a diversified set of tasks across the Embassy and fulfil tasks set out in the job description. The candidate will work on programme delivery and corporate tasks, including analysis of issues assigned to, financial management, logistics, and program management.
Salary: USD 414
Location (City): Addis Ababa
Application deadline: 6 June 2025
How to Apply:
Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.
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