Internship Opportunity

: 03 Apr, 2023

Location: Accra, Ghana

Duration: 1 year, renewable

Planned Start Date: 1^st May 2023

Deadline for Application: 20^th April 2023

1.0 About STAR Ghana Foundation

STAR-Ghana Foundation (SGF) is a national centre for active citizenship and philanthropy. The Foundation works to strengthen civil society and facilitate inclusive citizens’ engagements with the state and other duty-bearers for accountable, transparent, and responsive governance at both local and national levels. To deliver on its mission, STAR Ghana Foundation deploys a flexible range of tools and approaches, including facilitating multi-stakeholder policy dialogues, to providing competitive grant calls, leveraging, and catalysing strategic partnerships, up to date political economy analysis, media engagement and communications, citizen feedback, and convening communities of practice and learning. Further information can be obtained at www.starghana.org

2.0 Purpose

The overall purpose of the internship programme is to provide career training and mentoring for post-national service graduates through hands-on and structured training in project/programme management, development practice and personal development. Interns are attached to various units of the organisations to expose them to the different aspects of the Foundation’s work. For 2023/2024, the Foundation is seeking to recruit 2 interns, one for Programmes and the other for Finance’. No salary will be paid, but interns will be given allowances.

3.0 Qualification and Experience

3.1 Programmes Intern:

Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
A strong research and analytical background is essential.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Demonstrated experience with Word, Excel, Outlook
Must have completed National service.
An understanding of the civil society context in Ghana will be an advantage
Demonstrable capacity for independent work and a high sense of initiative.

3.1 Finance Intern:

Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance and /or Part Qualifications in ICA, ACCA, CIMA or other related discipline.
Demonstrated experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Demonstrated capacity for independent work, high sense of initiative and integrity
Capacity to work to tight timelines while producing quality outcomes.
Must have completed National Service

Mode of Application:

Interested applicants should submit to : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

An Expressions of Interest (EOI) , indicating key qualifications for the role, key competencies, and motivation for applying. Applicants currently pursuing professional qualifications should include Introductory letters from their respective professional
A Resume of not more than 3 pages

NB// Please write ‘Intern Programmes’ (for those applying for programmes and M&E) or ‘Intern Finance’ (for those applying for Finance)’ as the subject of the email.

Related projects

Community-led Philanthropy Projects driving change

- Partners of STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Giving for Change identify support areas for development

As a result of local philanthropy, Abanga Moses Aningiba is currently pursuing a degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

Community-led philanthropy is critical to the development of every society. Developmental projects through local philanthropy is largely need-based, thus addressing specific issues with distinctive tailor-made methods depending on the community. Today, a lot of Communities in Ghana are buying into the idea of owning their development by mobilizing capital and human resources through STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Giving for Change (GfC) Programme.

During a monitoring and support visit to project implementing partners under the GfC Programme, it emerged that project communities are building school blocks, health centers, places of worship as well as undertaking education support and livelihood empowerment activities to benefit needy community members.

The visit was aimed at ascertainning progress made on implementing projects against their expected deliverables. It also served as a check for compliance against required financial practices while strategic support is offered on effective implementation of the projects.

YEFL-Ghana (Savannah Region)

YEFL-Ghana in collaboration with MyHereafter and Songtaba are working in deprived communities in the Savannah Region to get community members to mobilize resources for development under the GfC project. The project implementing partners report that the Monkula, Kupali, Kpasablo, Kulnyevila, and Kuduli communities in the Karaga District have recorded major gains through their collaborative efforts in local fund raising.

In Monkula, members of the community have been able to facilitate most developmental projects on their own with some support from the District Assembly and other philanthropists. They took the initiatives of building a school, mosque, health centre, dam, borehole, teachers’ quarters etc. “Community-led philanthropy is not new to us here at Monkula, for we have been doing it for a long time” a member of the community opined.

Health facility built through local philanthropy at Monkula

On the 25^thof February 2023, a ceremony was held to officially open a health center for the community. The health centre now eases residents of the burden of travelling several kilometres to Karaga town to seek health care. Together, the community members put up this structure and requested health workers from the Assembly. Thrilled by the achievement of the locals, a philanthropist in the community offered to build another facility for them, bringing the number of health facilities in the community to two. The people in Monkula have also committed to building a structure to house the health workers posted to work in the community and also provide potable water for operations of the facilities.

The people of Kupali have also led and completed several projects in their community. According to them, one major project they embarked on was building a community health facility, to aid access to healthcare. They contributed money, building materials, human resources in the form of labor, food, etc on their own to make this a success, and which moved, the district assembly to support by building a modern facility for them. The people later decided to raise a pavilion for the community school to be used as shelter for the first batch of Junior High School students in the community. Further engagements with them during a capacity building training on local fundraising revealed their intent to provide potable water source for the health facility to support its activities.

A JHS block (left) and a health facility (right) constructed through community-led philanthropy

Inspired by the success stories of Kupali and Monkula, the Kpasablo, Kulnyevila and Kuduli communities have all resolved to undertake similar developmental projects in addition to their projects in Water and Sanitation expansion in their catchment areas. Through effective youth group mobilization, they have also been able to construct community boreholes and latrines for each household. They would usually mobilize each other to support in maintaining the borehole and the community dam. “This youth group always find a way out to support their members and community any time there is the need. They would contribute money and other resources to support a course in the community” a resident said. The dangers in carrying women in labor and others in critical conditions on tricycles to Kupali for medical attention has informed their action plan for mobilizing resources to build a health facility in their community to provide timely access to healthcare. In the case of Kulnyevila, the community has successfully secured a parcel of land through engagement with their chief on the project. The land has been earmarked for the construction of a CHPs compound for the community. This land is the first and major resource acquired for the CHPs compound.

A mosque constructed at Kpasablo by locals

The Presbyterian Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (PCBR)-Garu reports that even though it has been a challenging journey, a total of ninety-four (94) PWDs have been supported with support of the District Assembly. Various livelihood interventions including providing craftsmanship, livestock, capital for petty trading, payment of school fees, white canes for the blind, crutches, and assistive devices have been provided.

Through PCBR-Garu’s project, a physically challenged student has been supported with a wheelchair and finance to pursue formal education. After successfully completing High School, Abanga Moses Aningiba is currently pursuing a degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

The Presbyterian Community Based Rehabilitation Programme in the Garu-Tempani District of the Upper East Region is a Matching-Fund partner of the Giving for Change Programme(GfC). Under the partnership, PCBR-Garu is tasked with increasing the support and contribution of local communities for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in a more germane and coordinated manner through fundraising strategies.

Leverage technology to improve livelihoods of women, girls

Partners under the STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Gender Rights and Empowerment Programme (G-REP) have been encouraged to use all available platforms to ensure that women and girls embrace and take advantage of technological innovations to improve their lives.

Such a move, a Projects Manager at the Foundation, Dr Ernestina Tetteh, said would also help to improve the lots of their families, communities, and the country generally.

Speaking at a forum in Ho in the Volta Region to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023, under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,” she said the theme aligns with STAR-Ghana Foundation’s comprehensive Gender Equality and Social Inclusion plan that guides all its operations and partnerships.

She urged that in the pursuit of digital technology, no none ought to be left behind.

“Let’s remember that women and girls are not a homogeneous group, and there may be some, and a significant proportion at that, who may need a little more help in embracing technology and enjoying its benefit thereof. Subsequently, we all need to be intentional in our approach so that we do not end up excluding certain groups in our pursuit of gender equality.”

“I am thinking about women and girls with disabilities, women and girls from low social economic backgrounds, women and girls in rural communities, women, and girls with little or no formal education, women and girls who have no employment or training. We need to be deliberate to bring on board all categories of women, reaching the furthest behind first,” she said.

Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister

The forum

The forum was organised by Volta Regional Department of Gender under the of Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection in the Volta Region in collaboration with STAR-Ghana Foundation and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The forum aligns with the objectives of STAR Ghana’s Gender Rights and Empowerment Programme(G-REP), a Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) commissioned project with an overall goal to contribute to increased access to rights and quality social services for women and girls.

Expected outcomes include improved access of women and girls to quality public goods and services, particularly in the areas of health, education, and protection against (all forms of) violence.

As part of the IWD commemoration, the Department of Gender organised a series of activities including Digital Literacy Skills Training, (scratch, web design, coding etc.), debate for SHS students on the impact of digital technology on women and girls, a Tech Forum and Fair to educate and exhibit technological services and product available to women and girls to enable them to develop in their education, career, and businesses.

The forum provided a space to discuss and create awareness on the impact of digital technology on women, cyber security and challenges posed by the infiltration of digital technology on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Some dignitaries and girls at the event

Meanwhile, the Department has come up with the concept of #LadiesGoDigital where some selected women and girls have been trained in basic ICT literacy skills (coding, web design, graphic design, and basic office suit productivity application in stock taking and sales record keeping), among others).

Beneficiaries showcased their newly acquired skills during the tech forum. The idea is to use this avenue to stir up the interest of women and young girls to take up the challenge to safely venture into the technology space and embrace the opportunities provided in the technological/digital world to promote Gender Equality.

Partner civil society, stakeholders to achieve quality education for girls. - Gov’t urged

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