Deadline: 16 August, 2023
The Commonwealth has announced a call for applications for the Commonwealth Gender and Sexuality Fellowship.
The fellowship is designed to provide professionals with the opportunity to enhance knowledge and skills in their given sector and to have catalytic effects on their workplaces.
Benefits
- Approved return airfare from the fellow’s home country to the United Kingdom
- Reimbursement of the standard visa application fee
- Stipend (living allowance) payable monthly (or pro rata) for the duration of the award at the rate of £1,944 per month, or £2,397 per month for those at organisations in the London metropolitan area (rates quoted at 2021/22 levels)
- If a fellow declares a disability, a full assessment of needs and eligibility for additional financial support will be offered to them
- Arrival allowance of up to £1,061.10 (rates quoted at 2021/2022 levels), including an element for warm clothing
Eligibility
- Applicants must be a citizen of, or have been granted refugee status by, an eligible Commonwealth country, or be a British protected person
- Applicants must be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country
- Applicants must have at least five years full-time, or equivalent part-time, relevant work experience, in a profession related to the subject of the fellowship programme
- Applicants must be in employment at the time of application at an organisation that they will return to upon completion of the fellowship
- Applicants must provide at least two references, one of which must be from their current employer
- Applicants must not have undertaken a Commonwealth professional fellowship within the last five years (at the time of taking up the award)
- Applicants must not be seeking to undertake an academic programme of research or study
- Applicants must be available to undertake their fellowship within the full duration of the prescribed dates
To apply and for more information, click here.
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