LACC EVC Vacancy Announcement
Deadline: January 7, 2026
BACKGROUND
Launched in 2009, the President’s Young Professional Program (PYPP) is a prestigious innovation in youth capacity-building for public service leadership. Under the banner of Emerging Public Leaders, the PYPP Model is replicated in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone. The PYPP recruits, trains, mentors, and prepares promising Liberian college graduates for a future career in Liberia’s public service through a competitive, transparent, rigorous, and meritbased recruitment and selection process. PYPP provides a comprehensive career development support package to the recruited college graduates as they work full-time and support the ministries and agencies’ top priorities. PYPP provides selected candidates with monthly salaries, medical insurance, working laptops, a 2-week job-readiness workshop, ongoing monthly training, an annual excursion to a selected rural county, and other career development opportunities for a two-year fellowship. The PYPP’s long-term goal is to build the next generation of young and qualified Liberian professionals who are committed to working for the government and the people of Liberia, thereby increasing public sector capacity and contributing to good governance and strong leadership.
Its objectives are:
(i). create job opportunities for educated, talented, and highly qualified Liberian youth; (ii). transfer knowledge from seasoned professionals to the next generation of Liberian civil service leaders; and (iii). Strengthen Liberia’s public sector capacity by creating a pool of innovative, committed, and qualified young Liberians who are willing and committed to public service. Other support provided to the young professionals includes: Mentorship - facilitates the transfer of knowledge, skills, and talent from a seasoned professional to PYPs. The pairing of our young professionals, each with a Mentor. Mentors are expected to provide additional professional coaching and guidance to the young professionals for the two years.
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