Deadline: 1-Jul-22
The U.S. Embassy is inviting applications for Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program.
This distinguished program brings accomplished mid-level professionals to the United States for a year of combined academic (non-degree) and professional work. Fellows are selected based on potential for leadership and commitment to public service. Fellowships are granted competitively to both public and private sector candidates with strong leadership potential and a commitment to public service in these fields.
The ideal candidates for this program are mid-career professionals in leadership positions who have the required experience/ skills, commitment to public service, and potential for advancement in their professions. Applicants should have a minimum of five years professional experience and should be policy rather than research or technically oriented.
Program Field
- Human and Institutional Capacity:
- Economic Development: Suitable candidates include policy makers and administrative managers focusing on contemporary development issues including population growth, agriculture and industrial development, poverty and income distribution, labor markets, and foreign trade.
- Finance and Banking: Suitable candidates include individuals who are involved in the management of financial institutions, the regulation of depository institutions and securities, transnational lending and trade financing, or public-private partnerships.
- Public Policy Analysis and Public Administration: Offers Fellows the opportunity to further develop policy analysis and public management skills and equips them with the knowledge and experience to push ideas into action and resolve global challenges across a variety of policy issues.
- Technology Policy and Management: Network administrators, engineers, and urban planners involved in formulating technology policy and planning and managing technological change and systems are suitable candidates in this field.
- Human Resource Management: The most suitable candidates in this field are those individuals dealing with institutional change and setting personnel policies and procedures. These might be human resource managers or individuals from various fi elds who have been charged with re-organizing a department or ministry, for example.
Benefits
- The Fellowship provides for:
- Payment of tuition and fees at the assigned host university;
- Pre-academic English language training, if required;
- A maintenance (living) allowance, including a one-time settling-in allowance;
- Accident and sickness coverage;
- A book allowance;
- A one-time computer subsidy;
- Air travel (international travel to and from the US for the Program and domestic travel to required program events);
- A Professional Development allowance for professional activities, such as field trips, profess ional visits and conferences.
Eligibility Criteria
- An undergraduate (first university or Bachelor’s) degree
- A minimum of five years of full-time, professional experience
- Limited or no prior experience in the United States
- Demonstrated leadership qualities
- A record of public service in the community
- English language ability
For more information, visit https://bb.usembassy.gov/education-culture/ec-scholarships/humphrey-fellowships/