Teach for Uganda STEM Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Teach for Uganda STEM Fellowship 2026. The Teach for Uganda STEM Fellowship is a pilot program carried out below the Leaders in Teaching Program, a flagship initiative supported by the Mastercard Foundation and led by the Luigi Giussani Foundation by a consortium of schooling companions.

The Fellowship responds to a transparent and pressing want: Uganda wants extra succesful, dedicated, and nicely-supported STEM academics, particularly ladies, who may help learners construct the talents, confidence, and creativeness required for a quickly altering world.

Through this pilot, Teach For Uganda is recruiting and growing younger leaders with robust STEM backgrounds, putting them in secondary faculties, and supporting them to change into efficient academics, mentors, and position fashions for learners, particularly women.

Benefits

Through the fellowship, you’ll:

• Build robust management and drawback-fixing expertise
• Put tutorial data to apply
• Positively influence kids and communities
• Contribute to addressing considered one of Uganda’s greatest challenges: instructional inequity

Fellows obtain a month-to-month stipend to assist residing bills.

Eligibility

To be thought of for the fellowship, candidates should meet the next obligatory necessities:

• Must be a feminine Ugandan citizen or a refugee at present residing in Uganda.
• Holder of a Bachelor’s diploma in a STEM area with a minimal CGPA of three.0
• Aged between 22 and 27 years outdated on the time of application.
• Must be proficient in English.
• Flexible and prepared to be positioned in any USE (Universal Secondary Education) secondary faculty.
• Passionate about schooling fairness, management, and driving neighborhood change.
• Must be prepared to undertake a 1-yr, absolutely-funded Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in the course of the first yr of enrolment. 

Eligible STEM backgrounds embody:

• Computer Science / IT
• Engineering
• Mathematics / Statistics
• Biology, Chemistry, Physics
• Environmental Science
• Nursing and Public Health
• Agricultural Sciences
• Any technical or scientific area with robust analytical expertise

Application

Application paperwork embody:

• Updated CV
• Motivation assertion or management responses
• Academic transcripts
• Contact particulars for referees

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Teach for Uganda STEM Fellowship.