The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellows Program is pleased to announce its call for retooling professional fellows.
This call invites nonprofit professionals seeking to become internal evaluators of their programs, to apply for this opportunity to enhance their evaluation capacity. The fellowship is further designed to help participants become better at serving diverse populations.

The OMG Center for Collaborative Learning and Duquesne University, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, teamed up to launch the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellows program. The program builds diversity in the evaluation field by providing enriching training and technical assistance in program evaluation to nonprofit professionals from groups historically underrepresented in the research disciplines.

During the six-month fellowship, non-profit professionals will be trained in culturally-responsive evaluation methods while remaining in their job and working on a practical evaluation project for their employer. Each fellow will receive approximately 40 hours of training in workshops. Additionally, the fellows will receive technical assistance with completing an internal evaluation project at their organization. The program’s goal is to help nonprofit professionals become better internal evaluators of their programs and better consumers of information for decision-making. The program also aims to equip participants with evaluation skills that will help enhance the evaluation capacity of their organizations. Ultimately the program seeks 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.

Follow this link for more information or to apply-http://www.rwjf-evaluationfellows.org/retooling-fellows

The deadline for applications is July 8, 2011 the program will begin in late September.