Chevening 2025-2026 Clore Leadership Fellowship in UK (Fully-funded)

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 programme in the UK. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office funds up to five international fellows to join a cohort of approximately 20 fellows, from across the UK and internationally,

The Clore Fellowships are awarded each year to leaders in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice.

The programme has been shaping exceptional cultural leaders for over 20 years.

About Fellowship

The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship Programme is for leaders with ambition and vision who can show how they might take their leadership to the next level. The programme is learned through experience, not taught, and is grounded in contemporary leadership theories and approaches.

The programme has a formal structure but the direction, themes and content is tailored to each individual’s needs.

There is a strong emphasis on learning about you and your leadership through self-reflection, learning from speakers and peers in your cohorts..

Residential content will explore authenticity in leadership; values; coaching skills; inclusive cultures; strategic planning; finance; governance, the practice of leadership in action; impact; influence, wellbeing/ restorative care in leadership, as well as the opportunity to learn from guest leaders.

The programme format blends opportunities for facilitated reflection, taught content, discussion and debate through a variety of whole and small group, small solo activities. There will be plenty of time to meet with your peers, get to know each other and learn from one anothers’ professional, lived and learned experiences.

The fellowship will run from September 2025 – May 2026 with a loose framework designed to boost the development of exceptional cultural leaders at a pivotal point in their career. It is adaptive and self-guided, so you’ll need to be highly motivated and deeply curious.

Programme structure

As a part of Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, each international fellow will undertake an individually tailored programme based in the UK which will include:

• Two residential leadership courses in September 2025 and May 2026
• Three day-long non-residential skills-based workshops January 2025
• A one-day ‘Online Climate Assembly’
• A 360° leadership profile
• A secondment in a UK based cultural organisation, (normally in an organisation or field very different to your usual workplace or practice) where you’ll be working on a ‘live’ project set by your host organisation
• Bespoke learning opportunities based on own research such as; conferences, training courses, study visits and peer/sector networking.
• Focused support from a mentor or coach.
• Thought leadership exploration through a written provocation paper.

 

• Table of Content
• About Chevening
• Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship
• Requirements for Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Chevening

Chevening is the UK government’s international awards programme aimed at developing global leaders. Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations, Chevening offers two types of award – Chevening Scholarships and Chevening Fellowships – the recipients of which are personally selected by British embassies and high commissions throughout the world. Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders, influencers, and decision-makers from all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK cu... continue reading

Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship

Application Deadline	05 Nov 2024
Country to study	United Kingdom
Type	Fellowship
Sponsor	Chevening
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship

A Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship includes a set training budget to cover:

1. Up to two return economy flights from your home country to the UK to undertake fellowship activities
2. Accommodation while in the UK
3. Living expenses while in the UK
4. A period of secondment for approximately 4-6 weeks at a cultural institution in the UK
5. Individually tailored fellowship learning plan which may include participation in courses conferences and other processional development activities in the UK
6. Course and conference fees within the UK
7. Training and development costs within the UK
8. Travel in the UK

Requirements for Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship Qualification

Applications are invited from individuals from the following countries:

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

To be eligible for a Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, applicants must:

• Intend to return to the country they were selected from at the end of the period of study
• Hold a degree that is equivalent to at least a good UK second-class honours degree or have equivalent professional training and/or experience
• Have completed at least five years’ work, or equivalent experience, by the end 2024
• Work in the cultural sector, in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice.
• Meet the minimum requirements in accordance with the main fellowships scheme
• Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview
• Not hold British or dual British citizenship
• Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), 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 step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years).

Please note that applicants who have previously received financial benefit from a HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply after a period of five years following the completion of their first HMG funded award. In these cases, applicants will be required to demonstrate their career progression from that point.

Applicants are also advised to review the Eligibility Criteria.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship

The Fellowship starts in September 2025, with fellows travelling from their home country to the UK to undertake the 1st fellowship residential in September 2024 and then returning to their home country in early October 2025

Fellows return to the UK in January 2026 to undertake the majority of their bespoke training and development. This will include workshops, study visits across the UK, secondments, mentoring, attendance at training courses and conferences, and the 2nd Fellowship residential course in May 2026, which completes the Fellowship programme.

Application Deadline

November 5, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Chevening on asams.chevening.org to apply

Applications for the 2025-2026 Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship are now open!

For more details visit: Chevening website.