Recruit, Train, Place.

Join the Africa Data Centre Talent Project

Recruit, Train, Place.

Join the Africa Data Centre Talent Project

The Problem: A Growing Industry Without a Talent Pipeline

Africa’s data centre industry is booming, yet it faces a severe talent crisis. The market is young, training is inaccessible, and most available courses are either unaffordable, irrelevant to Africa, or lack local certification. Existing recruitment models often lead to poaching and recycling the same limited talent pool.

Young people across the continent are eager for opportunity, but the bridges between them and these high-growth industries are broken. As digital infrastructure accelerates, the urgency for workforce development becomes critical.

The Solution: The Africa Data Centre Talent Project

In response to Africa’s growing digital infrastructure demands and the widening talent gap in the data centre (DC) sector, a new ground-breaking initiative is being launched to develop a local and future-ready workforce for the continent. This pioneering project, born out of a collaboration between industry experts, training providers, and placement specialists, will build Africa’s first scalable data centre talent pool, sourced, trained, certified, and placed in jobs.

The Africa Data Centre Talent Project aims to build a training and placement model that addresses:

  • Awareness: Educating youth about the digital infrastructure sector
  • Access: Affordable, blended learning with regional support
  • Alignment: Matching skills to actual job roles and industry standards
  • Pathways: Structured pipelines from training to employment to growth
  • African need: growing a talent pool for DCs that works for Africa

Recruit

Recruit high-potential youth & career-switchers to grow the African continent's DC talent pool.

Train

Train them to meet local demand & global standards. Embed workplace training into the curriculum.

Place

Place them in jobs or internships in DC environments through partnerships with operators & employers.

We Need You - Your input will ensure we build a model that works

Join the Data Centre Africa Skills Study and make sure your voice helps shape the future of the industry. By completing the survey, you’ll get early access to industry-wide results and insights, plus a direct line to the future talent pool.

Take the Africa Data Centre Skills Survey

We are calling all data centres in Africa to participate in our discovery process.  Take the survey →

By participating, you'll help us to;

  • Understand your workforce gaps
  • Map the roles and skills in highest demand
  • Build a training model that truly reflects your needs
  • Identify potential workplace experience partners

 

We are IBTC

We are a trusted, accredited South African tuition provider offering globally recognised finance and business professional qualifications since 2006.

With expertise in occupational training, we deliver online and classroom learning across Africa, working with peer colleges to expand our footprint across the continent.

This initiative is powered by the Digital Investment Facility (DIF).

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