The Nelson Mandela Washington readers fellowship for the year 2022 is open for application from interested fellows are from African countries, details below.

Every year the Nelson Mandela Washington fellowship programme welcomes fellows for two set of fellows for two of the organization’s fellowship programmes. Application is now open for the Nelson Mandela Washington IREX Readers fellowship for the year 2023

The United State department of State in partnership with the IREX will be welcoming the academicians, professionals, and fields experts to the read and score applications for the Nelson Mandela Washington 2023 Fellowship.

The IREX and Nelson Mandela fellowship programme have successful recorded about eight years of the beginning of the Fellowship, and the Nelson Mandela Washington fellowship programme has total received close to 300,000 applications from professionals, academicians and experts from African countries unfortunately few number of up to 5,800 Fellows were successful. Because of this exposure we advise interested fellows to leverage their talents.

Fellows’ Responsibilities and Reading Period for the Nelson Mandela Washington IREX Readers fellowship, 2023

Readers will take responsibility for evaluating programmes applications based on set guidelines and a scoring rubric.  This is a great volunteer professional development and career building opportunity for professionals or individuals.

This year’s reading commencement date is on the14th of September, 2022, the reader fellowship will be up to three separate reading phases, each of the phase will last for a total of two weeks, starting from the 14^th of September through to November.

Successfully picked fellow readers will be assigned to one of the reading phases to review up to 40 applications.  Each of the applications takes from 10-15 minutes to read and score.

Eligibility for the Nelson Mandela Washington IREX Readers Fellowship, 2023

Fellow readers must be;

Academicians

Professionals

Fields experts

Fellow readers be well granted in at least one of the following:

Business

Civic

Engagement

Public management

Fellow readers must have experience working in Africa, or must have experience working in African.

Employees of the United State government and alumni of the Nelson Mandela Washington IREX Readers fellowship are eligible to apply to be a reader

Every race, colour, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity is qualified to apply.

Fellow should be from the age of 25 to 35 at the time of application

Only citizen of the following African countries are eligible to apply;

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cabo Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Cote d’Ivoire

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

To begin your application for the Nelson Mandela Washington IREX Readers fellowship for year 2023, visit the official application portal to begin your application. Application process is very simple and straight forward.

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