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Elevate Your Research Career with a High-Impact Fellowship: Fully Funded, 12-Week Online Program (Global Eligibility)

Are you passionate about conducting impactful research to drive positive change? The Ambitious Impact Research Program offers a fully-funded, 12-week online fellowship designed to equip aspiring researchers with the tools, skills, and experience to tackle complex global challenges and produce decision-relevant research.
Program Details
- Dates: April 7 – June 27, 2025
- Format: Full-time, online
- Cost: Fully funded, with stipends provided to cover living expenses
- Deadline for Applications: February 2, 2025
Why Join?
This program addresses critical gaps in nonprofit research by training participants to:
- Assess the effectiveness of charities and interventions.
- Apply advanced methodologies like cost-effectiveness analysis and theory of change modeling.
- Explore under-investigated solutions and generate impactful reports.
Key Features
- Learn essential research skills: theory of change, literature reviews, decision-making frameworks, and more.
- Collaborate with experienced researchers on real-world projects.
- Build a portfolio of intervention reports.
- Receive mentorship and regular feedback.
- Connect with a network of researchers and explore job opportunities.
Who Should Apply?
This program is ideal for:
- Early-career researchers looking to build practical skills.
- Professionals in global health, mental health, biosecurity, and related fields seeking effectiveness-focused methodologies.
- Motivated individuals eager to explore high-impact career paths.
Benefits
- 12 weeks of online training, consisting of roughly four weeks of self-directed learning, projects and workshops and eight weeks of hands-on work assisted by an AIM mentor.
- Our complete researcher’s toolkit, including templates, methodologies, and resource access
- Stipends to cover your living costs during, and potentially after, the program (Please reach out if you have dependents or childcare costs, to ensure financial constraints don’t hinder your participation)
- Support for job applications in the research and nonprofit sectors.
- Ongoing membership in a vibrant research community.
What You’ll Gain
- Comprehensive research methodologies.
- Practical experience and published intervention reports.
- Career capital for roles in impact-focused organizations.
Application Process
- Written Application: (~30 minutes)
- Test Task: (~3 hours)
- In-Depth Interview: (~60 minutes)
The entire process takes no more than 10 hours. Only 10–15 participants will be selected for this competitive program.
- We will contact you about the outcome of your application, regardless of whether you progressed to the next stage.
- We will only invite you to the next stage if you have a good chance of success. We are sadly unable to give individualized feedback to rejected candidates. However, we build our test tasks to be useful to you as a candidate as well as for us in vetting applicants.
- We have designed the process to help you learn more about what is important for a career in nonprofit research and weigh it against other career options and pathways to impact.
Start Your Impact Journey Today!
Join the Ambitious Impact Research Program and contribute to building a more effective, equitable world through research.