Request for Proposals for Partnered Fellowship Positions 2022-2024

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For the past three years, Lake Champlain Sea Grant (LCSG) has partnered with organizations in the basin to support two-year fellowships. These unique early career training experiences for recent graduates focus on a variety of priority issue areas that are relevant to the LCSG Strategic Plan (2018-2023) and align with interests and goals of partner organizations.

As LCSG moves into our next two-year funding cycle (2022-2024), we seek to identify partner organizations with which to support two new fellows. Organizations, agencies, and institutions of higher education that operate within the Lake Champlain basin of New York and/or Vermont are eligible to apply to this opportunity.

For each fellowship position, costs to support the fellow will be shared between LCSG and the partner organization(s). LCSG will support $25,000 per year with federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for each of two years towards each fellow. Partner organizations are asked to commit at least an equal amount of non-federal funding to support stipends for the fellows. In recognition that not every potential partner organization will have $25,000 in non-federal funds available to commit annually as match, multiple organizations may apply collaboratively to support a single fellow in partnership with LCSG.

Once fellowship partners are selected, scopes of work will be developed with each partner to define these relationships and expected deliverables, and a subaward will be issued (if funds are being directed to a partner organization). Then LCSG and the participating partner organization will facilitate a competitive process to select a high caliber candidate from a pool of applicants. Each fellow will be employed either through UVM or by the partner organization, determined in cooperation with the partner organizations.

Timeline

  • Proposals due: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 by 11:59pm ET to seagrant [at] uvm.edu
  • Responses to proposals sent to applicants by: February 1, 2022
  • Expected project start date (sub-award issued): March 1, 2022
  • Expected project duration: 24 months

Priority Areas

Priority areas of focus for fellowship applications include:

  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Water policy
  • Science communications
  • Community engineering or landscape design
  • Coastal resilience

Alternatively, an organization may propose a fellowship that addresses an aspect of the LCSG Strategic Plan that is not identified as a priority above. In such instances, particular care should be taken to describe how the fellowship position will align with the LCSG Strategic Plan and goals and interests of the partner organization.

Application Guidelines

To apply, interested organizations should submit a 3-page (maximum, using 1-inch margins and 12-point font) description of their proposed fellowship position and supporting information to seagrant [at] uvm.edu. Please see the full Request for Proposals for detailed application guidelines:

Contact

Interested organizations with questions can email Lake Champlain Sea Grant at seagrant [at] uvm.edu.