Deadline: 7 August 2020
Do you dream of ideas that could better the world? If you think you have what it takes to be a future boss entrepreneur, apply to join the Fellowship Programme and become one of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation’s community of current and future entrepreneurs.
The aim of the Fellowship Programme is to help university students prepare for life as a high-impact, responsible entrepreneur. Applicants must be in Grade 12 or 1st year university and have a 70% overall academic average. Once applicants are successful, they are on boarded as Candidate Allan Gray Fellows.
The Fellowship is the next step in your education, and your education is more than just a degree – it’s 360 degrees of entrepreneurial training. It’s the ability to see the complete picture, to use your voice to fill gaps. It’s a directive to do business that’s inclusive, innovative and downright inspirational. Your degree is an open-ended invitation to redesign the world – and it’s got your name on it.
Choosing entrepreneurship as a viable career path
The Fellowship Programme focuses on cultivating entrepreneurship in Candidate Fellows by ensuring that by the end of the Fellowship Programme they desire to create value through responsible entrepreneurship, see entrepreneurship as a viable career path, are able to take an idea and develop it into a viable opportunity, understand the value proposition of the Foundation and E2, as well as value the culture of community and collaboration. Furthermore, their entrepreneurial mindset development curriculum is disseminated via the AGOF Online Campus.
Deepening the understanding of entrepreneurship
In addition to financial and academic support, each candidate is allocated a Personal Development Officer, helping them get to grips with the transition into a new environment; an Entrepreneurial Leadership Officer, who probes them to flex their entrepreneurial muscles; as well as an industry mentor, who deepens their understanding of entrepreneurial traits and concepts in the working world.
Fellowship Covers
- Academic
- Textbooks & tutoring allowance
- Monthly stipend
- Full tuition at one of 11 partner universities
- University accommodation and meals
- Entrepreneurial mindset development
- Speakers and seminars Experiential exercises
- Workshops
- Personal development
- Personal Leadership Officer (mentorship)
- Industry mentor
- Like-minded community
- Outcomes
- Tertiary qualification
- Responsible thinking and entrepreneurial mindset
- Well-rounded individual
- Community-orientated learning
Criteria
- The Foundation operates in countries where Allan Gray Limited is represented and, therefore, offers the Fellowship to citizens of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.
- As long as you are 21 years or younger if you are a matriculant, or 22 years and younger if you are applying as a first-year university student, or 23 years and younger if you are applying as a second-year student. As long as you are 21 years or younger if you are a matriculant, or 22 years and younger if you are applying as a first-year university student, or 23 years and younger if you are applying as a second-year student.
- The Foundation does not provide funding for MBA studies.
- The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation invests in individuals who display entrepreneurial potential. The Scholarship and Fellowship programmes aim to cultivate (grow) that potential further. They believe that an entrepreneurial mindset can benefit an employee and a business owner.
- Selection is based on the region’s demographics, which means that all races are welcome to apply.
Application Requirements
- Minimum average of 65% for your 2020 mid-year (June) exam results
- Applicants must be under the age of 22 in the year of their application
- South African Citizenship
- Studying towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities, Arts & Health Science (Excluding Medicine, Veterinary
- Science and Dentistry) degree at the WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFS and UKZN.
- Submit your application form and supporting documentation online on or before the deadline
- Successful applicant candidates will be invited for an interview in October 2020
- Successful interview candidates will be invited to a selection camp in December 2020
- Successful camp candidates will receive formal offers in December 2020
For more information, visit https://www.allangrayorbis.org/entrepreneurship-development-programmes/fellowship/