President's Young Professionals Program
Founded in 2009, the President’s Young Professionals Program (PYPP) is a robust independently run public service fellowship program that recruits high-achieving young Liberian graduates through a competitive, rigorous, and transparent selection process; provides training and mentorship; and offers ongoing support and career development. As these young professionals (PYPs) increasingly fill more senior executive roles in Liberia’s civil service, they will accelerate a government-level shift towards the values of strong leadership, transparency, and meritocracy.
PYPP serves as a sister organization to Emerging Public Leaders and is led by Hh Zaizay, Executive Director and member of the inaugural cohort of PYP Fellows (2009-2011). Recognizing the importance of investing in the human capital within the civil service from the bottom-up, Hh is passionate towards the building the Liberian government’s capacity and accelerate efficient service delivery. Hh provides critical leadership support, and is responsible for the and is responsible for the management and implementation of program-related activities and curricula in Liberia. You can read more about his experiences working to rebuild Liberia here.
Office of the Head of the Civil Service
EPL is pleased to work with the Office of the Head of Civil Service (OHCS) to foster knowledge transfer of the program’s best practices for recruitment and talent management of high-performing young professionals. In August 2019, EPL formalized a Memorandum of Understanding with the OHCS, which guarantees the absorption of the first three cohorts of EPL Ghana Fellows (60 in total( into the civil service. OHCS plays a critical role in being the main interface with the EPL program and the ministries, and has a front row seat to understanding the methodologies and best practices that EPL uses.
National Service Scheme
In Ghana, EPL Ghana benefits from an established partnership with from the National Service Scheme (NSS), a one-year mandatory public service program for all university graduates. The mandate of NSS to provide opportunities for newly qualified Ghanaian graduates to have work experience in the public and private sectors complements that of EPL. EPL Ghana places high-performing Ghanaian university graduates in the Government of Ghana, the first year of which satisfies Fellows’ NSS requirements.
Civil Service Training Centre
EPL Ghana benefits from a partnership with Ghana’s Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC), the training institution responsible for training lower and middle level civil service personnel in Ghana. EPL’s main training partner, CSTC, delivers leading edge training to improve the functional effectiveness and efficiency of civil and public servants through adult learning approaches and activities in a well-equipped facility. In collaboration with EPL, CSTC is responsible for designing and delivering the 2-year monthly responsive training curriculum to EPL Fellows.