City Hall Fellows

National deadline: Mid-April, 2013 (Exact date TBA)

Eligibility requirements:

• Recent college graduate who has not yet attended graduate school or who is in the middle of a graduate degree program and are prepared to take a year sabbatical from their graduate studies to participate in City Hall Fellows
• U.S. citizen or legally authorized to live and work in the United States
• Fellows are expected to possess the following characteristics: (i) academic achievement, (ii) written and oral communication skills, (iii) leadership potential and ability, (iv) dedication to public service; and (v) an entrepreneurial spirit appropriate for participating in our growing program
• High GPA is recommended although not required
• Preference is given to applicants who can demonstrate a strong connection to the city for which they are applying.

Award summary and conditions:  City Hall Fellows offers a systemic solution to the leadership crisis threatening American cities.  They incentivize America’s best and brightest recent college graduates to do cities’ work by giving them firsthand experience in using local government to drive social change. Our Fellows function as full-time city employees, not as interns, consultants or observers. Fellows participate in a structured, year-long, quasi-academic exploration of how their city functions and why it operates that way, complete with intensive pro bono consulting projects through which Fellows practice policy evaluation and policy-making. Throughout, our Fellows experience how their efforts directly impact their local community.

City Hall Fellows spend their service year working on high-need government-run initiatives in cities where they have personal ties. During their service year, each Fellow works full-time as a special project assistant for a senior local government administrator or official.

City Hall Fellows partners with local governments across the country.  To date, they have placed seven cohorts of Fellows and worked with three different communities: Baton Rouge, LA, Houston, TX & San Francisco, CA. 

Online application process includes:

• A cover sheet
• Four short essay questions
• One-page resume
• Official or unofficial transcript
• One letter of recommendation
• $25 application fee

            To apply go to: http://www.cityhallfellows.org/apply/

Campus representative:  Keith Raether

Internal interview:  No
Internal nomination:  No

Announcement timeline:

Application deadline:  Mid-April, 2013
Applicant notification if they are invited to interview:  on or before May 10, 2013
Finalist interviews in San Francisco:  Late, 2013
Fellowship offer letters:  on or before May 31, 2013

Contact information:  http://www.cityhallfellows.org/