About the Young Fellowship
The Young Fellowship is an emerging initiative being developed at Portland Leadership Foundation (PLF). Designed to offer select college graduates a “gap-year” Fellowship, all Fellows will live together at the Young Family Foundation’s Hillside House, serve four days a week with a non-profit in the Portland metro area, and receive year-long non-profit coaching, personal mentoring and spiritual direction. The program is designed to combine business acumen with a strong faith; however, the Young Fellowship is ultimately focused on selecting and training the next generation of non-profit leaders for our city. Fellows will work directly with the Executive Director of the non-profit, who will offer an unprecedented hands-on working experience. This experience, paired with PLF’s focus in integrating faith and vocation, will result in a year of growth that is unprecedented in terms of developing non-profit leaders.
Recruit and Select
The Portland Leadership Foundation team is actively recruiting young diverse leaders with the objective of encouraging leaders to apply for the Young Fellowship. Students must be between 22-25 to be eligible to apply for the Young Fellowship. Fellow applicants must download the application and submit it to Portland Leadership Foundation on or before April 15, 2012.
TO DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION, CLICK HERE!
APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2012
Once the application deadline has passed, the PLF selection committee will facilitate a three-phase selection process:
- Application Screening
- Phone Interview
- In-person Committee Interview
Who Should Apply?
The candidates will be evaluated based on the following categories:
- Pursuit of Faith: How faithful, available, and teachable are they with respect to the thoughts of Jesus?
- Vision for Life: Does the candidate know why they want to be in the program? Do they know what they want to do next? Do they seem to understand themself?
- Work Experience: Dedication to job (length), responsibility at work, perceived level of effort for work (how does Fellow engage challenging/complex tasks?)
- Alignment with Fellows Program Objective: Do the candidate’s experience and vision for their future align with the vision and objective of the Young Fellowship (This score will be doubled to emphasize importance)
- Understanding Relationships: Who are the most important people in the candidate’s life and does she/he include them in important parts of life? Who does the candidate admire? Does the candidate have healthy relationships?
- Sufficient Leadership Experience: Leadership positions, understanding of their leadership style/gifts, demonstrated leadership in interpersonal relationships
- Quality of application: Grammar, spelling, organization of thought
- Intangibles: Things that make the candidate a particularly good fit for the program that may not be evaluated in other areas
- (Bonus Category) Education Aligns with Work: Area of study in college, extracurricular activities
Successful candidates must have a BA or BS degree from an accredited college or university, with a minimum 2.75 GPA. Additional skill requirements include the ability to work well with people of diverse backgrounds and strong organizational, problem-solving, written and oral communication skills.
Program Timeline:
January—April 15, 2012: Recruiting
April 15, 2012: Application Deadline
April 15—May 15, 2012: Three-phase Selection Process
May 15, 2012: Inaugural Young Fellowship Cohort Announced
July 1, 2012: Fellows Move-In to Hillside House and Begin Training
July 1—June 30, 2013: Fellowship Year
Hillside House
For more information on the application process email
Chris Yarco: chris.yarco@portlandleadership.org or
Ben Sand ben.sand@portlandleadership.org
or call our office at (503) 281-1801.
