Deadline: July 25, 2025
Description of the Opportunity
Applications are now open for Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program 2026-2027. Are you a mid-career professional with a passion for public service, innovation, or policy reform? The Humphrey Fellowship Program offers a transformative 10-month, non-degree American exchange focused on academic enrichment, leadership development, and global collaboration.
The Fellowship Program is a Fulbright exchange program, which enhances leadership among international professionals who collaborate to address local and global challenges and foster change for our collective good. Whether you are driving change in public health, education, law, technology, environmental policy, journalism, or urban planning, this is your chance to elevate your expertise and build lasting ties with international peers.
Through academic study and professional development with U.S. counterparts, this growing global network shares best practices and builds expertise in fields of critical importance to advance societal and institutional capacity, promote human rights and freedoms, ensure sustainable lands, and develop thriving communities. By providing future leaders and policy makers with experience in U.S. higher education, society, culture, and professional organizations, the program provides a basis for lasting, productive ties between Americans and their professional counterparts overseas.
Benefits
- 10-month Non-Degree Academic Study: Humphrey Fellows pursue tailored study programs at participating host institutions, where freedom from the requirements of a degree program gives each Fellow the flexibility to pursue a self-directed, individualized program at a host campus.
- Leadership and Professional Development: Professional enrichment activities include professional visits, enhancement skills workshops, conferences, training programs, and a professional affiliation (placement). The professional affiliation provides firsthand exposure to a U.S. work environment on a full-time basis for a minimum period of six weeks. These professional affiliations strengthen Fellows’ connections with American colleagues and allow them to contribute directly to U.S. communities by bringing a global perspective to issues in their professional fields. Early in the academic year, each Fellow develops, with assistance from the local campus coordinator and faculty advisors, a detailed plan of practical professional activities geared to the Fellow’s program objectives.
- Fully-funded: The fellowship provides international travel, tuition and university fees, accident/sickness coverage, monthly maintenance allowance and funding for books and professional activities. The Humphrey Program does not provide financial support for accompanying dependents.
Eligibility
- Individuals must be Jamaican and have a first university degree (equivalent of a 4-year bachelor’s or undergraduate degree).
- Individuals must have at least five years of full-time professional experience beyond attainment of a first university/undergraduate degree, and prior to August 2025.
- Individuals must have management or policy responsibilities, including university teachers and/or teachers of English as a foreign language. Exceptions are made for scientists/researchers applying in the field of substance abuse education and policy.
- Individuals must hold a passport, or be eligible to hold a passport, of the country nominating them.
- Transcripts and diplomas (including course listings and grades received) for undergraduate (first university or Bachelor’s) degrees are required.
- Transcripts not in English must include an English translation. A diploma is required for all other higher education degrees beyond a Bachelor’s degree, i.e. Master’s or Doctoral, with no transcripts needed for the advanced degrees, only the diploma.
Ineligible candidates include:
- Recent undergraduate university graduates, even if they hold significant positions
- University teachers or academic researchers with no management responsibilities (except in the fields of Substance Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment; and Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)
- Individuals who have attended a graduate school in the United States for one academic year or more during the seven years prior to August 2025
- Individuals with U.S. in-country experience of any kind lasting more than six months during the five years prior to August 2025
- U.S. citizens are not eligible. Individuals with dual U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent resident status may not apply to the program, as they are ineligible for a J visa
For more information, please visit Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
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