Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) Fellowship 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) Fellowship 2027. The fellowship supplies a novel OPPORTUNITY for early-profession African ladies attorneys to extend their strategic litigation, authorized illustration and advocacy abilities and finally turn out to be the subsequent technology of justice champions for ladies and kids in Africa. The Programme is run in partnership with the Legal Empowerment Fund on the Fund for Global Human Rights.

The Fellowship Programme funds and locations ten early-profession ladies attorneys in numerous human rights and justice organizations in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and The Gambia. These embody authorized assist suppliers, choose universities with authorized assist clinics, and authorities prosecution providers to supply authorized providers for ladies and kids in any respect levels of the justice course of. The Programme equips fellows with the instruments they should advocate for the rights of ladies and kids particularly towards child marriage and violence towards ladies and kids.

Fellows obtain immersive sensible work expertise and arms-on coaching and perform a spread of duties together with authorized analysis, drafting, shopper assist and authorized illustration in court docket. In holding with CFJ’s concentrate on utilizing expertise to extend entry to justice via the partnership with Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab and the Oxford Institute of Technology, CFJ fellows can even be skilled in and inspired to apply revolutionary technological instruments to advance their work.

Benefits

• A paid work placement at a human rights group, a college authorized assist clinic, or authorities authorized establishment in Kenya, Malawi, The Gambia or South Africa finishing up groundbreaking work to finish violence towards ladies and kids via authorized illustration and recommendation, strategic litigation and the revolutionary use of expertise to tell ladies of their rights and make prosecutors and professional bono attorneys extra environment friendly.
• Mentorship by the Justice for Women & Children Programme Director, host organizations’ supervisors and human rights specialists from the area
• At least one in-particular person convening with different fellows and supervisors in addition to senior CFJ management and an intensive month-to-month on-line coaching Programme led by human rights specialists
• Access to a world community of main human rights specialists, attorneys, judges, activists and teachers in addition to different subsequent-technology leaders.
• Enrollment within the CFJ Fellowship Alumni Programme community upon completion of the fellowship 12 months for continued assist, data sharing and collaboration

Eligibility

• Applicant ought to have a regulation diploma from a acknowledged educational establishment;
• Practicing Certificate: The applicant should be admitted to observe as a lawyer within the nation of the chosen host group;
• Relevant Work expertise:
  • Up to five years of expertise within the authorized discipline following commencement from regulation college/qualification as a lawyer in your jurisdiction.
  • Experience in ladies’s rights and dealing in human rights organizations most well-liked
• Work authorization within the related host nation:
  • Specifically, have the best to work within the host group’s nation: Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, or The Gambia. [Note that costs relating to international relocation and acquiring work authorization cannot be supported].

Relevant Skills/Competencies

• Alignment with CFJ’s mission and targets and people of the related host group
• A demonstrated capability to conduct advanced authorized evaluation and reality-discovering
• Excellent analysis, writing and verbal communication abilities
• Self-starter with glorious interpersonal and teamwork abilities
• Demonstrated dedication to justice and human rights, and creativity in crafting methods to advance justice for ladies and kids who’re victims of violence or child marriage
• Additional expertise working with survivors and/or impacted communities most well-liked
• Willingness to journey
• Experience working with weak people together with youngsters or victims of violence could be helpful
• Fluency in English required; proficiency in different working languages related to the international locations of host organizations most well-liked

Application

Applications for the 2027 class of the CFJ Fellowship Programme will shut on October 20, 2026. Those chosen for a Fellowship ought to anticipate to start in January 2027.

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For extra info, go to CFJ Fellowship.