Summer diiVe
Remote 2025
This is a high-impact, fully remote 7-week consulting internship program featuring a 2-week consulting bootcamp and a 5-week hands-on, project-based internship. We strategically place you in a team of peers and a client. From day one, you hit the ground running with your project mentor, who will guide you as you research your client and the project they’ve assigned to you, ideate on solutions, interview stakeholders, and eventually present a final project over the course of 5 weeks. This is a deep dive into consulting, global work and teaming experience to build future-ready skills from the comfort of your work-from-home environment.
Weeks 1-2: diiVers participate in our online consulting training, building virtual business & consulting skills, developing knowledge of key trends and ensuring you can manage projects effectively in virtual teams.
Weeks 3-7: diiVers consult remotely for a leading company based in South Africa on a focused project. You’ll work in teams, gain support from external mentors, and apply your learnings from Week 1 to ensure you deliver innovative and sustainable solutions by Week 7.
Although we are not running a data science program this summer, diiVers have the option to choose between a consulting internship that is more business focused or data driven. For those students that want to leverage their data analytics, forecasting or modeling skills through their work, we advise a data driven internship. If accepted into the program, you can request your preferred internship.
No, diiVe has only Summer and Winter Internship opportunities. Throughout the program, we provide diiVers with professional coaching and exposure to career opportunities in the consulting world and beyond to help them better define their purpose and career direction. We also will have broader discussions and learning opportunities with the entire diiVe cohort to promote relationship-building, and connection. We also conduct a case study review session for those students interested in applying for the big consulting houses.
- Elevate your employability
We equip you with foundational consulting capabilities, skills and work-life experience to enrich your leadership in a competitive marketplace.
- Gain international work experience that matters
We offer you an opportunity to intern remotely for a global client, working in teams to solve a key business challenge that has real-world impact.
- Define your constant, in the era of change
We support you in defining your own future purpose, whilst giving you access to networks you need, to launch your global career.
The diiVe Remote: Summer 2025 Program dates are June 9 – July 25 2025. Tuition is $2700.
The program fee includes:
- Intensive, 2-week online consulting training to equip you with the virtual business and consulting skills you’ll need for your future career
- 5-week remote consulting internship for a real client based in South Africa with a project team
- Weekly seminars
- Consulting case study prep
- Career coaching sessions
- Résumé development support and professional recommendation
- Lifetime access to the exclusive diiVe network of global leaders
- Weekly events and virtual hangouts
First round of applications closes December 13th 2024. Final round closes on April 1st 2025. Apply here for our Summer 2025 program. Our applications work on a rolling basis. Please ensure you apply as early as possible, as our program is competitive and we have a limited number of spaces available each summer.
Our consulting training is created for ambitious students as a crash course in the world of consulting. It covers opportunities in the industry, an understanding of the rapid changes occurring therein and a deeper dive into strategy, management and business consulting. This training is designed to prepare you with critical virtual business and consulting skills, as well as the strategic knowledge necessary to excel in the workplace. You’ll elevate your employability. We promise.
Sure you can!
diiVe is an intensive full time commitment. We highly discourage students from participating in multiple opportunities/internships/programs. For our consulting training, you should expect to dedicate +-6 hours of live sessions per day, split into two 3-hour workshops, with a few additional hours on self-guided learning, reflection and reading.
For the 5-week internship you can expect to work an 8-hour per day for 5 days a week, with your high collaboration times being between 8am - 12pm ET, followed by asynchronous work hours thereafter.
Summer diiVe
Cape Town 2025:
An immersive 7-week consulting internship program, with a 2-week consulting training and a 5-week hands-on, project-based internship. We strategically place you in a team of peers and a client. From day one, you hit the ground running with your project mentor, who will guide you as you research your client and the project they’ve assigned to you, ideate on solutions, interview stakeholders, and eventually present a final project over the course of 5 weeks. This is a deep-dive into consulting, global work and teaming experience to build future-ready skills. Living and working in Cape Town with students from around the world adds a priceless life experience to a fast-paced program.
- Elevate your employability - We equip you with foundational consulting capabilities, skills and work-life experience to enrich your leadership in a competitive marketplace.
- Gain international work experience that matters - We offer you an opportunity to intern abroad in South Africa, working in teams to solve a key business challenge that has real-world impact.
- Define your constant, in the era of change - We support you in defining your own purpose, whilst giving you access to networks you need, to launch your global career.
Dates are 9 June – 25 July 2025 and the program fee is $5500.
The fee includes:
- 2-week online consulting training
- 5-week in-person, project-based consulting internship in teams
- Consulting case study prep session
- Weekly immersive Cape Town experiences and weekend trips
- Fully furnished housing with your peers in the buzzing, beachfront of Cape Town
- Personalized coaching sessions and resume development
- Access to one-on-one tutoring
- Life-time access to an exclusive global network
- Transport to and from airport (does not include flights)
- Pre-arrival information, local guides & resources on site
- 24-hour emergency support
- *Fees do not include flights to and from Cape Town, local transport in South Africa or food costs
Visitors from the United States, United Kingdom and most European countries do not need a VISA for South Africa if they are staying less than 90 days. The full list of passport holders exempt from requiring a VISA for South Africa, can be found here.
diiVe is an intensive full time commitment. We highly discourage students from participating in multiple opportunities/internships/programs. For our consulting training, you’ll complete this remotely and you should expect to dedicate +-6 hours of live sessions per day, split into two 3-hour workshops, with a few additional hours on self-guided learning, reflection and reading.
At the end of week 2 you will then fly to Cape Town and move into diiVe housing with your fellow diiVers. For the 5-week internship you can expect to work a +/- 8-hour day, in our HQ, with visits to your client for meetings and presentations. Your evenings and weekends are your own! We will organize some diiVentures for the weekends, or after work drinks. All activities are recommended but remain optional.
You’ll take up fully furnished lodging in one of Cape Town’s safest, trendiest areas, the Atlantic Seaboard, surrounded by sea and mountain. With easy access to stores, bars, cafes, the diiVe HQ and some of the best restaurants in the country, your stay is assured to be safe, comfortable and convenient. Housing is included in the program fee. All diiVers live together in shared rooms.
Like most global cities, Cape Town is not without safety concerns, however it is important to put the socio-economic context of Cape Town into perspective as diiVers will be living and working in some of the most affluent and safest parts of the city. Nonetheless, we encourage our diiVers to practice a sensible level of vigilance and common sense and be sure to lean on the diiVe team for any queries or concerns as our 24/7 support is in place to ensure you have a safe yet epic experience.
Our offices are a co-working space called Workshop17, at the Watershed, located at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
diiVe is an education program before all else, with a training program before the internship starts. You are taught by experienced consultants from across the world. Training continues during the internship with ongoing internship training, seminars, and mentoring from the diiVe team. This is not a regular internship, but a guided training experience with real world impact.
Absolutely. The entire program is instructed in English. Also the majority of South Africans speak English, even if it’s not their first language.
Please check out our Covid policy here.
The South African Rand. You can buy currency in advance, and make sure you have a credit or debit card that you can access overseas. You will need to inform your bank in advance that you will be using your card in South Africa.
Cape Town has a great bus service called the MyCiti which is super safe, efficient and affordable. For everything else, Uber is a great option. We will arrange private transportation for diiVentures.
A packing list will be sent closer to your departure date.
Yes, you will have high speed internet in your office and apartment. Most coffee shops too!
Yes, South African tap water is safe to drink.
This is Cape Town’s winter season. There will be some wind and rain, with an average daily low temperature of 45 Fahrenheit and average daily high of 65. Cape Town winters are fairly bright and sunny most of the time however, even if cool.
Yes, your client will write the team a reference letter.
Food: $126
Uber: $42
Going out + Activities: $52
Airtime & Data: $10
Other: $20
Tips 10%
Total per week: $275
5 weeks total – $1375, which rounded up would be $1500
A member of the diiVe team will meet you for pickup at the airport, and will return you to the airport at the end of your program.
Please see here.
There is no malaria in Cape Town, and the tap water is safe to drink. There is no yellow fever vaccination requirement either, but we recommend you are up to date with all regular vaccinations.
We recommend you book as early as possible to get the cheapest deal. Same flight coordination is possible too - please contact us to check if we have other diiVers flying in from your city.
Yes, you will need travel insurance, medical and for possessions. We recommend Allianz.
Your family is welcome to visit! Just remember though, you will still be required to work a full working week, during their stay.
See our covid policy here.
There is so much to do in Cape Town, you may have trouble deciding. Go here for our full list of diiVentures.
Application
Process
Kick-starting your journey with us begins with you completing our simple application form found here . We recommend you carve out 1 hour in order to adequately complete this application form. The diiVe team will review your online application and then request a 30-minute interview, after which successful applicants will be notified and offered a space on the program.
We encourage a diversity of years, majors and interests to apply to our program to add to the richness of the conversations and learning of the broader cohort. No previous consulting experience is required.
We are looking for a select group of ambitious, aspirational leaders who:
- are currently enrolled at university or are a recent graduate (from any major or discipline)
- are high performing students
- want to develop their consulting, business and entrepreneurial skills
- possess a keen interest in community development or social impact
- have already demonstrated themselves as a young leaders in their community, university, country or organization (e.g. club, forum, committee)
Applications are open for all 2025 programs. The first round application deadline for Summer 2025 is December 13 2024. Second round applications close on April 1 2025.
Become a diiVer
Say yes to an exceptional experience of purpose-led projects, people and experiences that are designed to elevate you. This is diiVe. This is real life work-experience, at its most inclusive and immersive.
