Fellowships
GLOBAL POLICY. DIPLOMACY. SUSTAINABILITY. FELLOWSHIP Summer Cohort Application Open
The Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship seeks to provide its fellows with a foundational understanding of governance, policy, sustainable ecosystems, and strategic issues. Fellows are united by their passion to bring about a global change, and typically come from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds. If you are interested in applying to be a part of their summer cohort, learn more and apply here.
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
A full-time, six-to-nine month fellowship in Washington, DC. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues. This opportunity provides recent college and graduate school alumni with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security.
Scoville Fellows will choose to work with one of the twenty-six organizations participating in the program. Fellows may undertake a variety of activities, including research, writing, and organizing that support the goals of their host organization.
Fellows receive a salary of $3,400 per month and basic health insurance compensation, plus travel expenses to Washington, DC. The program also provides $1,000 per fellow for professional development to attend relevant conferences or meetings that could cover travel, accommodations, and registration fees, or to take a language or policy course. Application Information
Presidential Management Fellow
Bearing the Presidential moniker, the PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry-level for advanced degree candidates. It was created more than three decades ago by Executive Order and has gone through many changes over the years. The Program attracts and selects the best candidates possible, but is really designed with a more narrow focus – developing a cadre of potential government leaders. It provides some sustenance during the first years of employment and encourages development of leadership capabilities. The PMF Program inculcates a lasting bond as well as a spirit of public service, ultimately encouraging and leading to a career in the government
Application Deadlines:
Spring 2023 Fellowship: October 3, 2022
Internships
Altruistic Capital – Internships
Selection process will end on June 19th, 2022
Ashoka Latin America Intern
Ashoka is looking for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to a database of social entrepreneurship and conduct analyses for advancing the field of social entrepreneurship and collective impact. The intern will map social entrepreneurs from Latin America and analyze their innovations. The intern will also contribute to knowledge products, such as online courses, innovation sector reports, and innovation diagnostics tools.
San Diego Diplomacy Council – Internships
Gain hands-on experience in public diplomacy while learning about the work of a nonprofit in San Diego. Our volunteer intern positions are for college juniors through graduate-level students.
US Department of Justice Internships
CRS is seeking students from diverse academic backgrounds interested in working with “America’s Peacemaker” in communities across the nation. Through CRS’s internship program, students gain first-hand experience working for a federal agency with nationwide impact – helping prevent and respond to conflict, tension, hate crimes, and other challenges facing our communities today.
Other Extracurricular Opportunities
The Social Impact Career Popup
June 16, 2022: 7 AM – 4 PM EST
Join as we gather the world’s most talented innovators and organizations working at the forefront of impact careers. We will combine our collective experience, reach, and creativity in a highly interactive & engaging online event with hundreds of professionals and students striving to combine purpose and their career.
Attend highly interactive workshops, meetups, get drop in career support, and walk away with new ideas, connections and strategies for all things careers of impact and change.
Kosovo International Summer Academy 2022
This July (12 – 22) and August (10 – 20), Kosovo International Summer Academy (KSA) will organize will organize Part I and Part II of its 9th edition of KSA2022, in Prishtina, Kosovo, with a special focus in “Peace building in post-conflict areas – Diplomacy, Leadership and Negotiations”, that will be realized by Kosovo Center for Diplomacy. The uniqueness of Kosovo International Summer Academy is the association with the professors and guest lecturers from the world’s top universities, government officials, and ambassadors. KSA will be welcoming experts from different levels that will be teaching and sharing their academic and professional experiences with our participants, as well as will give the chance to our participants to take the information from the first hand. Kosovo International Summer Academy elaborate different topics on economics, politics, diplomacy, professional etiquette and protocol, leadership, peaceful conflict resolution, EU Integration process, international law, human rights, international justice, international security and the role of civil society in building peace in interactive lectures with diplomats, high level officials, representatives of civic society and prestigious local and international organizations.
KSA staff is working intensively to make sure that high-ranking officials of Kosovo and representatives of diplomatic missions in Kosovo will address the participants.
Social Justice Mediation Institute
August 21 – 24 & 27 – 28, 2022
Do you know anyone interested in being trained as a mediator? Over 5000 people have gone through the social justice mediation training in the past 25 years and we are offering an opportunity this coming August 2022 for those who are interested in becoming a trained mediator from a social justice perspective—working to ensure a fair process for all disputants.
Consortium Speaker Series
The Consortium’s Speaker Series brings an international roster of frontline practitioners, reflective activists and engaged scholars to University of Massachusetts Boston’s campus. Their talks address the complex realities of women’s and men’s lives and livelihoods in conflict-affected areas, the challenges of trying to bring feminist commitments into security policy and humanitarian practice, and the ways in which gender analysis can and must transform resolutely “gender-blind” paradigms of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Information about Upcoming Speaker Events, Events Earlier This Year, and Past Speaker Events is available here. You can find videos or transcripts of these events, when available, under Consortium Lectures.
Global Shapers Community Los Angeles
The World Economic Forum Los Angeles Global Shapers is recruiting their next class of leaders!
Being part of the community has been an incredibly rewarding experience, from working on local impact projects to collaborating with fellow shapers around the world, to becoming friends with truly inspiring people.
The hub accepts new applicants on a monthly rolling basis for available openings. Please complete the application on their website to be considered or tag someone you think might be a good fit.