Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program – Fall 2025

Deadline: January 6, 2025

Applications are open for the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program – Fall 2025. The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program invitations latest faculty and graduate college alumni to apply for full-time, six-to-nine month fellowships in Washington, DC. Outstanding people might be chosen to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and safety points. Applications are particularly inspired from candidates with a robust curiosity in these points who’ve prior expertise with public-interest activism or advocacy.

Scoville Fellows will select to work with one of many twenty-six organizations taking part in this system. With the help of alumni, board, and employees, fellows will choose a placement which finest matches their pursuits and the wants of the host group. Participating organizations present workplace area and assist, supervision and steerage for fellows’ work. With the exception of Congressional lobbying, fellows could undertake quite a lot of actions, together with analysis, writing, and organizing that assist the targets of their host group.

The goal of the fellowship is to offer an OPPORTUNITY for school graduates to achieve sensible data and expertise by contributing to the efforts of nonprofit, public-interest organizations engaged on peace and safety points.

Benefits

• Fellows obtain a wage of $4,079 per thirty days and primary medical health insurance compensation, plus journey bills to Washington, DC.
• The program additionally offers $1,000 per fellow for skilled growth to attend related conferences or conferences that would cowl journey, lodging, and registration charges, or to take a language or coverage course.
• The program arranges conferences for the fellows with coverage consultants and social networking occasions with alumni. Fellows additionally obtain mentoring from a board member and a former fellow.

Eligibility

• Applicants will need to have acquired a bachelor’s or grasp’s diploma inside the previous few years.
• Have a background and robust curiosity in a number of of the authorized coverage points addressed by the fellowship.
• Excellent educational accomplishments.
• Good written and oral communication expertise.
• Prior expertise with public-interest activism or advocacy is very fascinating.
• Considering a profession engaged on worldwide peace and safety points with public-interest organizations, the Federal Government, academia, or media.
• United States residents dwelling within the U.S. or abroad are eligible to apply.
• Non-U.S. residents could solely apply in the event that they stay within the U.S. and have a U.S. work visa throughout the fellowship. Non-U.S. residents dwelling outdoors the United States aren’t eligible to apply.

Candidates are required to have accomplished a baccalaureate diploma by the point the fellowship commences. Preference is given to United States residents, though a fellowship to a overseas nationwide residing within the U.S. is awarded periodically. Non-U.S. residents dwelling outdoors the United States aren’t eligible to apply. The Scoville Fellowship is just not supposed for college students or students desirous about pursuing unbiased analysis in Washington, DC.

Application

Upon submission of your accomplished utility, look forward to a affirmation electronic mail from Submittable. If you don’t obtain a affirmation electronic mail inside 24 hours of submitting your utility, contact [email protected]

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For extra info, go to Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.