The Deadline for the Application is July 1, 2010

Application website: http://www.rwjf-evaluationfellows.org/

The RWJF Evaluation Fellowship program invites emerging professionals who have graduated from a master’s or doctoral degree program within the last three years to apply for a one-year, full-time fellowship with an organization that specializes in evaluation. Potential applicants should be from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities, which include ethnic or racial minorities, those from low-income communities, first-generation college graduates, or others who have been historically underrepresented in the evaluation field.

To be eligible for the fellowship, emerging professionals must:

* Have obtained a master’s or doctoral degree within the last three years.

* Have limited professional experience and training in evaluation.

* Be from a historically underrepresented and disadvantaged community.

* Be a US citizen or permanent resident.

We will select up to seven emerging professionals for a one-year fellowship. During the one-year fellowship, emerging professionals will work full-time in organizations that specialize in evaluation. Salary is commensurate with experience and salary standards of the placement organization. The placement organization will provide Fellows with work projects that will build their skills in evaluation and research, including but not limited to: assisting in the development and conduct of surveys, questionnaires, and interview protocols; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative and quantitative findings; writing and producing written reports and other documents. In addition, the organization will make an effort to expose the RWJF Fellow to the following experiences: evaluation planning; proposal development; organizational management meetings; and client meetings. The practice and theoretical background of culturally responsive evaluation will be related to all these evaluation skills.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Evaluation Fellows Program is designed to diversify the evaluation field by providing individuals from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities with the necessary skills and training to become program evaluators. The program’s ultimate goal is to infuse the evaluation field with well-trained individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to meet the increasing diversity of programs and communities that the profession serves.