THE CHEVENING CLORE LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP 2024/2025 FOR MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS (FULLY FUNDED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM)

Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship. The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Clore Leadership, offering mid-career professionals in the arts and culture sector an exceptional opportunity to undertake an individually tailored leadership program in the UK. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office funds up to five international fellows to become part of a cohort of approximately 20 fellows, from across the UK and internationally, on the Clore Leadership Fellowship Program The program has been shaping exceptional cultural leaders for the last 16 years.

Application Deadline: 6 March 2024

Through the development of leadership potential, acumen, and skills, the Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a customized program for developing leaders that strives to enhance and transform cultural practice and engagement.

The Chevening  Clore Leadership Fellowship is a unique opportunity for deep personal and professional learning, bringing together some of the most innovative and vibrant cultural leaders in the UK and throughout the world. Using in-depth instruction catered to your unique needs, goals, and situation, the Clore Leadership Fellowship will help you become the leader you can be. accessible for the

The fellowship will run from September 2024 – May 2025 with a loose framework designed to boost the development of exceptional cultural leaders at a pivotal point in their career. It is adaptive and self-guided, so you’ll need to be highly motivated and deeply curious.

Experience-based, practice-based, and supported by modern leadership theories and methodologies, the Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a learned rather than a taught program.

Eligibility 

Applications are invited from individuals from the following countries:

  • Brazil
  • China
  • Egypt
  • India
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mexico
  • South Africa

To be eligible for a Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, applicants must:

  • Intend to return to the country they were selected from at the end of the period of study
  • Hold a degree that is equivalent to at least a good UK second-class honours degree or have equivalent professional training and/or experience
  • Have completed at least five years’ work, or equivalent experience, by the end 2023
  • Meet the minimum requirements in accordance with the main fellowships scheme
  • Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview
  • Not hold British or dual British citizenship
  • Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
* Note: Parents, stepparents, siblings, children, stepchildren’s parents, spouses, civil partners, and unmarried people (where the couple has been in a relationship comparable to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years) are all considered immediate relatives.

Benefits

A Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship includes a set training budget to cover:

  • Up to two return economy flights from your home country to the UK to undertake fellowship activities
  • Accommodation while in the UK
  • Living expenses while in the UK
  • An interval of deputation for approximately 4-6 weeks at a cultural institution in the UK
  • Individually tailored fellowship learning plan which may include participation in courses conferences and other processional development activities in the UK
  • Course and conference fees within the UK
  • Training and development costs within the UK
  • Travel in the UK

Program structure

Each international fellow will participate in a specially designed program headquartered in the UK as part of the Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship. This program will include:

· Two residential leadership courses in September 2024 and May 2025

· Three day-long non-residential skills-based workshops

· A one-day ‘Online Climate Assembly’

· A 360° leadership profile

· A secondment in a UK based cultural organization, (normally in an organization or field very different to your usual workplace or practice) where you’ll be working on a ‘live’ project set by your host organization

· Bespoke learning opportunities through conferences, courses and study visits and peer/sector networking.

· Focused support from a mentor or coach.

· Thought leadership exploration through a written provocation paper.

For More Information and to apply for the Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship visit the THE CHEVENING CLORE LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP 2024/2025 FOR MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS’ official website.

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