Click here to apply for the UJS Leadership Fellowship 2025/26!
The UJS Leadership Fellowship is a competitive, one-year leadership programme designed to identify, challenge, and upskill Jewish student leaders.
Equipping you with the tools, networks, and experiences to lead with confidence, vision, and purpose, the fellowship combines innovative leadership workshops, access to inspirational voices, and two international trips. Together, these experiences will enable you to tackle difficult conversations whilst deepening your understanding of diverse Jewish communal life.
Apply using this form! (Open to any University or Higher Education student)
Why Apply?
Lead Now, Not Later:
This fellowship amplifies your existing leadership experiences and harnesses your potential. Through engagement in productive discomfort, you’ll be challenged to explore complexity, question assumptions, and grow by working alongside your cohort. This will also be an opportunity to enhance your CV by developing leadership, advocacy, and teamwork skills.
Political and Communal Engagement:
Join a unique cohort of Jewish student leaders who will become collaborators, allies, and friends. Alongside them, this fellowship will allow you to gain first-hand exposure to leadership in action. Through relationship building with senior leaders in politics, civil society, and the Jewish community, you will learn how institutions work, how to navigate them, and how to advocate for the issues that matter most.
2 Overseas Trips:
As a fellow, you will embark on two immersive international trips. These are not just opportunities to connect with Jewish student leaders in a new setting, but to engage with political institutions, civil society organisations, and diverse communities. On these trips you will:
• Explore the realities of Jewish communal life in different contexts.
• Meet policymakers, diplomats, and activists shaping global conversations.
• Engage in difficult and essential dialogues on peace, conflict, and identity.
The Leadership Fellowship will broaden your perspective, sharpen your leadership skills, and inspire you to think about your role in the global Jewish community and wider society.
Apply for the leadership fellowship using this form. (Open to any University or Higher Education student)
Please note the below dates that are COMPULSORY to the programme:
Seminar 1: 26th October
Europe trip: 5-9th November
Seminar 2: 7th December
Seminar 3: 4th January
Seminar 4: 8th February
Israel trip: 25th – 31st March
Graduation Reception: 26th April
APPLICATIONS CLOSE Sunday 12 October at 23:59PM
Here's a glimpse of what our Fellows got up to in 2023/24 and 2024/25
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| Opening Seminar 2023/24 | Northern Ireland Trip 2024 | Israel Trip 2024 |
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| Opening Seminar 2024/25 | Israel Seminar 2024/25 | Graduation 2024/25 |
Catch up with what our Alumni have been up to since graduation on the UJS Leadership Fellowship Blog
