As the world marks the 2024 International Women’s Day, leading digital financial services provider for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa, Moniepoint Inc., has announced the launch of this year’s edition of the Women-In-Tech initiative.
This year’s IWD campaign theme, “#InspireInclusion” calls for action to break down barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create environments where all women are valued and respected.
Speaking on this year’s edition, Head, People Operations at Moniepoint Inc., Chinaza Nduka-Dike, said with this initiative, the organisation is going over and beyond inspiring inclusion to demonstrating a genuine commitment to making a difference in the lives of women.
She said, “Increasingly we are seeing that diversity, inclusion can ignite innovation and growth. Intentional outreaches such as our Women in Tech have helped to increase female representation and have had a transformative power to create meaningful inclusion while ensuring that we can keep pace with the talent development in a global economy.
“We have been able to fill talent gaps while giving women great jobs and a sustainable livelihood.
“Looking back at the past editions, we are filled with an immense sense of pride at the progress made and looking forward to adding more women to the pool who in turn can grow as leaders and build thriving, successful organisations.”
Previous editions had five women in each cohort, this year, the six-month internship programme, she added, is aimed at ensuring that young women have access to building a career in technology and will see 10 women take on roles in various teams.
These include Cloud Engineering, Backend Engineering, Technical Product Management, Data Engineering, Systems Administration, Technical Support and User Experience.
Christened as the Dream 10, these women will be provided with direct mentorship during the internship.
Other perks include; a salary, work tools, the opportunity to work on live projects during the course of the internship and an offer of full-time employment depending on assessment post-internship.
