Fully-Funded Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024

Qualified applications are invited for the Fully-Funded Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024, designed for mid-career professionals seeking to augment their expertise and competencies in their respective fields, with the potential to bring transformative impacts to their workplaces.

The Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024 offer mid-career professionals from low- and middle-income countries an opportunity to undertake a period of professional development at a UK host organization within their sector.

In the 2023/24 round, all Commonwealth Professional Fellowships are focused on the thematic area of Clean Energy, Air, and Oceans. The main objective is to empower professionals by allowing them to advance their knowledge and skills within their specific sector while also fostering transformative impacts within their workplaces. Target recipients: Mid-career professionals (with a minimum of five years relevant work experience) employed in development-related organizations within low- and middle-income Commonwealth countries.

Fellowship Summary:

Fellowship Sponsor(s): Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK

Program Type: UK host organization

Fellowship Worth: Fully Funded

Number of Slots: Not Specific

Basic Qualification: Mid-career professionals

Nationality: Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Dominica, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, St Helena, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia.

Eligibility for the Fully-Funded Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024;

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 of full-time, or equivalent part-time, relevant work experience, in a profession related to the subject of the Fellowship programme, by the proposed start of the fellowship. Voluntary work experience will not be counted towards this minimum
Applicants must be in employment at the time of application at an organization 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 program of research or study. Academics are eligible to apply for the scheme, but only to undertake programs of academic management, not research or courses relevant to their research subject.
Applicants must be available to start and complete their fellowship within the prescribed dates.

Method of Application for the Fully-Funded Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024;

Prospective candidates applying for the Commonwealth Professional Fellowships must fill out an online application form and submit all the necessary information before the designated application deadline.

Applicants will be asked to provide the following below;

List all undergraduate and postgraduate university qualifications obtained (where applicable)
List up to 10 publications and prizes (if applicable)
Provide details of employment history and explain how each job is relevant to the program you wish to undertake in the UK (up to 100 words per employment)
Provide a statement on the relevance of your previous work experience to the proposed fellowship (up to 300 words).
List names and positions of up to three referees who are qualified to comment on both your capacity to benefit from your proposed fellowship in the UK and your ability to deliver development impact afterwards. One of your referees must be your current employer.
Provide a Development Impact statement in 4 parts.

In the first part (up to 200 words) you should explain how your proposed Fellowship relates to:

Reducing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering rates of air pollution or promoting marine conservation, in accordance with the aims of COP 26 and SDGs 7, 13, and 14.
Development issues at the global, national, and local levels
Development issues connected to the theme of climate change and the wider sector

Application Deadline: August 16, 2023.

For more information about this opportunity, Visit the Official Website.

Fully-Funded Commonwealth Professional Fellowships 2024