World Institute on Disability Global Heumann Fellowship 2025-2026 ($30,000 Total stipend) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the World Institute on Disability Global Heumann Fellowship 2025-2026. The WID Global Heumann Fellowship Program honors WID co-founder Judy Heumann’s enduring legacy by empowering incapacity leaders and advocates worldwide to advance incapacity rights and justice inside their regional communities. Through this program, fellows will work on impactful tasks geared toward fostering fairness, inclusion, and justice globally. Their obligations embrace conducting analysis, drafting a white paper, cultivating relationships, driving collaborative alternatives, and contributing to program growth aligned with WID’s mission and strategic focus areas.

During this twelve-month fellowship time period, every fellow will interact in a novel mixture of alternatives for thought management on nationwide and international coverage, analysis methods, advocacy, program growth, and contributions to initiatives geared toward advancing the rights of individuals with disabilities globally. Fellows will focus on figuring out and main analysis with the help of WID, because it regards the man’s respective area, experience, and collaboration with WID.

Fellows Roles and Responsibilities

Fellows’ roles and obligations embrace the next:

• Promoting WID’s mission and core values throughout the Fellow’s area and international presence.
• Ensuring reflection of WID’s mission and core values all through the application course of, fellow’s program growth, related work, and future motion plans.
• Establishing and strengthening alliances to advance change with WID and for the man’s future skilled growth.
• Conducting related analysis that may promote relevant findings and construct the ability of individuals with disabilities.
• Creating a sustainable, analysis-based mostly venture plan to information regional and international implementation all through and upon completion of the fellowship.
• Conducting complete analysis that ends in a WID-revealed white paper.
• Producing multi-media belongings that display fellow’s analysis findings and organizational aims.
• Maintaining constant communication and proactive curiosity in connections with mentors, WID workers, and others concerned within the fellow’s analysis, tasks, and obligations.

Stipend

• The fellowship will present a stipend of $20,000 USD to help participation in this system and $10,000 for reimbursements round analysis bills. The stipend shall be paid in 4 installments upon receipt of agreed-upon deliverables for every quarter of the fellowship timeline.

Eligibility

The Global Heumann Fellowship seeks disabled, visionary leaders with a demonstrated historical past in advocacy, communications, and influential collaboration. Interested candidates should:

• Have the flexibility to be efficient whereas working remotely.
• Maintain flexibility working with a various, international workforce.
• Have at the very least three years of related work expertise throughout the incapacity rights motion.
• Have expertise in advocacy on international incapacity rights points. 
• Demonstrate flexibility and capability to work independently with restricted supervision and adapt shortly to new or sudden assignments.
• Possess English proficiency and a excessive stage of consolation utilizing the English language in each spoken and written kinds.
• Commit part-time (~ 20 hours/week) to the proposed analysis venture and fellowship program all through the fellowship yr.
• Currently have knowledgeable profession throughout the incapacity rights area or plan to upon completion of the Fellowship.

The very best candidate will:

• Have lived expertise as an individual with a incapacity.
• Hold an instructional diploma (earned within the U.S. or overseas) equal to a U.S. bachelor’s diploma accomplished by the application deadline.
• Possess a powerful basis of data of incapacity and human rights advocacy.
• Have day by day entry to the web, a private laptop, and an appropriate work surroundings.
• The capacity to work sometimes at non-commonplace hours, accommodating completely different time zones.
• Be accessible on prompt communication modes resembling WhatsApp or Signal.
• Have vital expertise in writing or are a printed author on incapacity rights points.
• Commit to excellence and be a dependable, responsive, and accountable workforce member all through the fellowship.

Application

Only functions submitted by means of the designated survey platform shall be accepted. Submissions have to be accomplished by February 28, 2025, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time (UTC-8). All responses and supplies have to be submitted in English.

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For extra info, go to Global Heumann Fellowship.