Deadline: 11 January 2017
The Congressional Hunger Center is currently seeking applications for the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program, training emerging leaders in the fight to end hunger worldwide. It is a unique two-year program that combines field and policy work.
Leland Fellows develop new skills while actively working to alleviate hunger and poverty in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. During the first year, fellows work directly to build food security in the field. In the second year, fellows apply their field experience to the design of sound development policy at the organizational, national, and international level.
Benefits
During their service, CHC provides the fellows with:
- Financial support: Each fellow receives a financial package designed to support living expenses (placement location specific), and help offset the costs of housing, relocation, and acquisition of public market health insurance.
- Leadership development training: CHC provides the fellows two extended training sessions, one at the start of each fellowship year, that focus on developing leadership skills. Other training events and opportunities that fellows can access remotely are scheduled throughout the fellowship.
- Advising: Throughout the fellowship, each fellow receives intensive professional development advising from a member of the Leland Program staff.
- Professional Development Funds: Fellows may apply for additional funds in order to access courses, conferences or skills trainings to complement the work they are doing at their placements.
- Membership in a dynamic learning cohort of fellows: Each fellowship class comprises a valuable learning community. Accordingly, we select placements and fellows in order to ensure a diversity of subject matter, type of work, experience and background.
- Connection to an extensive network of alumni, partners and experts.
Eligibility Criteria
- Leland Fellows are selected based on their demonstrated leadership qualities, experience, maturity, flexibility, and commitment to fighting hunger.
- Eligible candidates should have spent time working or volunteering in a developing country and possess a relevant graduate degree or equivalent experience.
- Some placements may require specific skills such as foreign language fluency, a particular graduate degree or expertise, or other technical skills.
- Leland Fellows must be authorized to work in the United States for the full duration of the program. The procurement or extension of this authorization is the responsibility of the applicant.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit applications online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Leland International Hunger Fellows Program.