Internet Society Mid Career Fellowship 2025 for Mid-Career Professionals Worldwide

Applications are ongoing for the Internet Society Mid Career Fellowship 2025. The Mid Career Fellowship provides today’s leaders with the know-how to navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), knowing that their purpose, livelihood, and organizational goals are influenced or impacted by the Internet.

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About Internet Society Mid Career Fellowship

Opportunity Details

  • Date Published: March 21, 2025
  • Application Deadline: April 11, 2025
  • Category: Fellowship Training

The Mid Career Fellowship is a unique opportunity that offers 15 Fellows unparalleled access to world-class educational institutions and experts in a seven-month program, from June through December. It equips global mid career Internet champions with the knowledge, skills, and tools to enable inclusive, innovative, holistic, and strategic leadership.

The fellows work throughout five modules which have live lectures and assessments, and culminate in a symposium to showcase the work they’ve completed. The program also includes seminars on trends, such as digital geopolitics, leadership in VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) environments, and advocacy and communications, practical case studies and cross-sector networking.

Benefits of Internet Society Mid Career Fellowship

  • This fellowship will equip mid career Internet champions with the knowledge, skills, and tools to enable inclusive, innovative, holistic, and strategic leadership.

Internet Society Mid Career Fellowship Requirements

Candidates must be mid career professionals in leadership roles, working in the Internet ecosystem in a technical, policy, economic, or social capacity. They are welcome to apply if they:

  • Have at least 10 years of relevant experience, including leading or managing teams and/or projects, in the Internet space in a technical, policy, economic, societal, or other capacity.
  • Currently work in a position/organization that is addressing digital challenges or facing digital disruption and transformation.
  • Want to solve problems, work in multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary teams, and acquire new knowledge and skills.
  •  Want to ensure that the Internet remains open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy.

In addition, candidates must:

  • Have reliable access to broadband Internet connection and relevant devices.
  • Be able to fully participate in the seven-month experience which requires a commitment of approximately six hours a week.
  • Have a proficiency level in verbal and written English.

Application Date and Process

  • Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Candidates are reviewed confidentially through a multi-step evaluation process by the selection committee. The committee attempts to achieve professional, geographical, and gender diversity in the overall selection.

Application Deadline

11 April, 2025

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