Coalition for Good Schools Young Leaders Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 4, 2026

Applications are open for the Coalition for Good Schools Young Leaders Fellowship 2026. The Young Leaders Fellowship is a one-yr programme for younger leaders from the Global South working to forestall violence in opposition to youngsters in and thru faculties. They assist fellows to strengthen their management and to construct the arrogance to take their place as international leaders on this discipline.

To lead effectively is to profoundly rework your self and the folks round you. Fellows develop into leaders via:

• Honest conversations about your management. Space to mirror on your self and your work with individuals who care about it, in an surroundings that affirms your capabilities.
• Confidence as a worldwide chief. Reaching the purpose of believing that your work issues, that your concepts are very important to the sector, and that you simply belong within the conversations shaping it globally.
• A voice within the discipline. Opportunities to take part instantly in conversations that form the sector’s path, together with conferences, coverage briefs, and skilled seminars.
• One in-particular person convening. The cohort comes collectively in particular person as soon as through the yr.

Benefits

• Continuous studying. Regular programming that connects your apply to the broader proof base, drawing on data from academia, civil society, authorities leaders, and youngsters themselves. This consists of utilized modules on pitching, compliance, recruiting, and personnel administration.
• Coaching in your initiative. You work via a structured evaluation of your personal initiative alongside practitioners with deep expertise in class-based mostly violence prevention. You ask tougher questions of your programme: the place are the strengths, the place are the gaps, what may break because the work grows, and what’s being measured.
• Field publicity. You construct a working understanding of the violence prevention ecosystem: who the important thing actors are, how affect strikes, and what it takes to construct a reputable presence. Networking classes and guided reflection enable you to construct relationships and map a method for positioning your work within the broader discipline.
• Community of apply. Each month, one fellow brings an actual, present problem or innovation of their work, and the cohort works the issue collectively. Sessions are facilitated and grounded within the realities of violence prevention work.   

Eligibility

• Applicants ought to be between 18 and 35 on the time of application.
• Based in and dealing in a Global South nation.
• Currently main or contributing meaningfully to an lively initiative on stopping violence in opposition to youngsters in and thru faculties. This may additionally embrace work with present non-earnings and governments.
• Able to take part totally in English.
• Able to decide to a distributed, digital cohort with common classes throughout time zones, and to affix the in-particular person convening through the yr.

Selection Criteria

The choice will prioritise:

• A observe document. Sustained engagement with work on stopping violence in opposition to youngsters in and thru faculties.
• Seriousness and dedication. You are dedicated to the problem of stopping violence in opposition to youngsters in and thru faculties and clear about what you are attempting to do, even when the concept is early stage.
• Ability and curiosity in shaping the sector. You have, or may plausibly develop, the capability to contribute to international conversations on violence prevention in faculties.
• Openness to look studying. Willingness to develop, are interested in others and their work, and the power to thrive alongside friends throughout very totally different contexts.

Application

The application will stay open until 4 July 2026. The cohort can be introduced mid-July.

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For extra data, go to Coalition for Good Schools Young Leaders Fellowship.