McCain Global Leaders Program 2025 Cohort (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 21, 2025

Applications are open for the McCain Global Leaders Program 2025 Cohort. To adapt to and meet the wants of an ever-altering and complicated international atmosphere, the McCain Institute will decide a worldwide thematic focus space in addition to technical areas of focus for every area and recruit members who work on related points associated to every theme. Throughout the 12-month program, the Leaders will take part in programming that’s each regional and international with the purpose of connecting them to a extremely related and focused skilled peer group of their home area, in addition to a broader and various community of worldwide friends.

2025 Global Theme: Advancing Democracy and Human Rights

The McCain Institute acknowledges the ever-altering and complicated international panorama because it pertains to nice-energy competitions, the unfold of authoritarianism, threats to democracy, abuse of human rights and rising challenges to the well being of the planet pushed by local weather change. It additionally acknowledges that 2025 will convey unprecedented change and problem to the worldwide neighborhood due to latest and upcoming elections occurring all over the world in addition to battle occurring in quite a few areas. The McCain Institute will search to determine a various cohort of leaders who’re working to advance democracy and human rights of their home nations by way of a wide range of professions and initiatives.

Benefits

• Participants will obtain a stipend meant to cowl incidental bills incurred all through this system. However the direct prices of participation in this system (economic system class journey, resorts, visas) might be totally coated by the McCain Institute. There might be no price of participation apart from the time dedication that MGLs make to take part in programming.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be mid to senior- profession professionals, possess wonderful working proficiency in English, and actively work on the main focus difficulty areas of this system because it pertains to the worldwide and regional theme. 
• Aspiring McCain Global Leaders (MGLs) ought to work in a management function of their area and actively be “in the arena” striving to enact change of their home communities.
• Applicants must be dedicated to serving a trigger larger than oneself and must be invested in full participation in digital engagements, in-individual applications and publish program alumni actions.
• There isn’t any minimal instructional requirement no requirement for a particular area or job space.

Application

The application interval is from January 6, 2025 by way of February 21, 2025 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Applications have to be obtained throughout this era to be thought-about. Applications have to be submitted by way of the portal, emailed functions and references won’t be thought-about.

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