Fully Funded Leadership Fellowship in the UK from Chevening Foundation

This fellowship targets applicants from the following countries:

• Brazil
• China
• Egypt
• India
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Mexico
• South Africa

Applicants must:

• Intend to return to their chosen country at the end of their period of studies.
• Have a degree at least equivalent to a UK second class honors degree or have equivalent professional training and/or experience.
• Have completed at least five years of work, or equivalent experience, by the end of 2023.
• Meet the minimum requirements according to the main fellowship program.
• Possess a good working knowledge of the English language to be assessed in their application form and if invited for an interview.
• They must not hold British nationality or have dual nationality and one of the two nationalities is British nationality.
  Not be employees, former employees or employees within the previous two years of His Majesty’s Government, (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and all British Embassies/High Commissions), the Home Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, or the Department for Trade International and UK Visas and Immigration), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
• Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or stepparents, siblings or half-siblings, children or stepchildren, spouses, civil partners or non-married couples (where the spouses have been in a relationship similar to marriage or civil partnership for at least Two years).
• Please note that applicants who have previously received financial benefit from an HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply for this opportunity five years after the completion of their first HMG-funded award.
• Program structure:
  • Two resident leadership courses in September 2024 and May 2025.
  • Three one-day workshops.
  • One-day online climate training course.
  • A secondment to a UK-based cultural organization (usually in a very different organization or field to your usual place of work or practice).
  • Tailored learning opportunities through conferences, courses, study visits and peer/sector networking.
  • Focused support from your academic advisor or coach.
• The Fellowship will begin in September 2024, with Fellows traveling from their home country to the UK to undertake their first residential fellowship in September 2024 and then returning to their home country in early October 2024.
• Fellows will then return to the UK in January 2025 to undertake the majority of their training programs and individual development activities. This will include workshops, individual secondments, necessary mentoring, attendance at courses and conferences, and a second residential fellowship cycle in May 2025, which completes the program.

About Chevening:

The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Clore Leadership, offering mid-career professionals in the arts and culture sector an exceptional opportunity to undertake an individually tailored leadership program in the UK. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office funds up to five international fellows to become part of a cohort of approximately 20 fellows, from across the UK and internationally, on the Clore Leadership Fellowship Program. The program has been shaping exceptional cultural leaders for the last 16 years.

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