Social Impact Fellowship

Application closes on 9th Feb 23

Social Impact Hub collaborates with purpose-driven organisations to accelerate change. Through advisory services, thought leadership, education, and capital mobilisation, they help create a world where people and the planet thrive. Social Impact Hub specialises in supporting social enterprises, not-for-profits, and purpose-driven organisations to design, demonstrate and scale their impact.

The Social Impact Fellowship is an initiative of the Social Impact Hub.

Social Impact Hub are a purpose-driven intermediary that collaborates with a broad range of changemakers. Through advice, education, mobilising capital and ecosystem building, we build capacity to amplify impact.

We specialise in supporting social enterprises and purpose-driven businesses to design, demonstrate and scale their impact. As a leading provider for Impact Investment Ready Growth Grants, we also have deep expertise working with enterprises to prepare for and raise impact investment.

Whether you are feeling ready to take the plunge and pursue a career in social impact or looking to upskill and position yourself for success in your current role, the Social Impact Fellowship will equip you with the resources and clarity to take your next steps and unleash your potential.

The Social Impact Fellowship is a transformative program for aspiring changemakers seeking to explore their purpose and understand how they can drive greater social and environmental impact through their work and beyond.

The Fellowship is a three-month program that focuses on developing both your sector knowledge of social impact, social entrepreneurship and impact investment, and upskilling in 21st century skills, such as lean start-up methodology, design thinking and personal branding. The program includes content led by our Professional Impact Network who are subject matter experts in the sessions they run as well as networking and practical learning opportunities. This includes:

Demystifying the social entrepreneurship and impact investing landscape.
Meeting other amazing talented individuals from diverse backgrounds in your cohort.
Hearing from leading social entrepreneurs, impact investors and sector leaders who will share their insights on different parts of the impact ecosystem and help you explore opportunities to embed impact in your career.
Receiving introductions to social enterprises and founders in our Social Impact Hub network to support your professional development.
Receiving bespoke career guidance and sessions with your Fellowship mentor/s.

Social Impact Fellows will:

Attend immersive and interactive masterclasses and exclusive sessions with leading entrepreneurs, impact investors, and changemakers.
Gain access to high-quality masterclasses from the Scaling Impact accelerator Program and other online learning content
Gain practical and hands on experience by working on projects with social enterprises that address real-world challenges.
Join a diverse community of aspiring changemakers intent on building an inclusive, just and sustainable world including social enterprise founders, impact investors, and for purpose leaders.
Receive mentoring support to foster their learning journey and guide their next steps for embedding impact in their career.
Experience a journey of self-discovery and learning designed to build individual capacity to contribute to and drive social change
Be the first to know about networking and professional development opportunities in the impact sector.

Note: The Social Impact Fellowship has a $2,600 fee (plus Stripe fee, plus GST) for the program. We are committed to ensuring that finance is not a barrier to participating and provide a number of partial scholarships each year. Note, we don’t provide full scholarships. We encourage all interested to apply. We can also support you to work with your organisation to cover some or all of the costs as part of your professional development. If you apply before January 2023, you will get access to the early bird rate of $2,500 (plus Stripe fee, plus GST).

The fee goes towards funding the operational cost of running the Fellowship to ensure the best experience possible for all Fellows. Our educational sessions are run by experts in their field including those from our Professional Impact Network who are paid for their time. Members of our Professional Impact Network are also compensated for their time to support the projects.

The Fellowship will be delivered virtually. Outside of the Fellowship, we will facilitate state based catch ups and networking opportunities.

What Makes a Fellow

Social Impact Fellows are ambitious and driven changemakers eager to harness their energy and skills for good by gaining the community, knowledge and skills required to be effective, collaborative agents of change in the 21st century.

Fellows from our cohort have come from all walks of professional life, ranging from those deep in the impact sector to individuals from government to banking to architecture and education – united by a common desire to positively impact the world. Joining the Fellowship is about more than learning about social impact, it is joining a lifelong community of changemakers with a passion for learning from each other.

We invite you to apply to the Social Impact Fellowship if you have:

An interest in social impact and entrepreneurship

A burning desire to grow your impact by applying your current skills and learning new ones

Key Dates

SEPTEMBER 2022 – APPLICATIONS OPEN & INTERVIEWS COMMENCE

DECEMBER 2022 – EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS9TH FEBRUARY 2023 – APPLICATIONS CLOSE

FEBRUARY 2023 – FINAL INTERVIEWS & OFFERS

MARCH 2023 – PROGRAM STARTS

JUNE 2023 – PROGRAM ENDS

The Program

The Social Impact Fellowship is an immersive, interactive and evidence-based learning experience. The content and learning journey has been informed by our work on the ground with social entrepreneurs and changemakers and is delivered in partnership with our Professional Impact Network and leading changemakers from across the impact sector.

Fellows will build their knowledge and capability across the following areas:

21st-century entrepreneurial skills including lean startup methodology
The world of social entrepreneurship
Impact investing and its exponential growth
Impact measurement best practice
Exploring purpose in your career and creating an authentic personal brand
Crafting your personal mission and values
Leadership and emotional intelligence

The Social Impact Fellowship has a $2,600 fee (plus Stripe fee, plus GST) for the program. We are committed to ensuring that finance is not a barrier to participating and providing a number of scholarships each year. We encourage all interested to apply. We can also support you to work with your organisation to cover some or all of the costs as part of your professional development. If you apply before January 2023, you will get access to the early bird rate of $2,500 (plus Stripe fee, plus GST).

Program Structure

The Fellowship is a learning experience that you can curate based on your learning goals that we develop with you during the program. We run one to two sessions a week (2.5 contact hours in total). These sessions will likely run on Wednesday nights from 6pm-7.30pm and Friday from 1pm-2pm. Sessions are not compulsory, as Fellows can choose which are most appropriate for their learning journey – with curation supported by our team. All sessions will be recorded and Fellows will have access to these during and following the program, alongside other online learning materials, so it is not essential to attend every session live.

Fellows also receive mentoring and have the opportunity to participate in an interactive impact project and gain practical experience working to address a real-world problem from a social enterprise.

Fellows will also get access to the Scaling Impact Accelerator Program masterclasses covering topics, including:

Scaling a social enterprise
Building best practice social enterprise financial models
Branding and marketing
Raising capital
Engaging investors
Impact measurement
Team, governance, and culture

Speakers, Facilitators & Mentors

Drawing on our wide network, we handpicked a range of experienced and exceptional individuals to be involved in the Fellowship program.
The Fellowship program also includes a group of talented and experienced mentors who will support you on your journey. Your mentor/s will help you translate your skills, build your network and navigate the impact space with confidence.

If you have any other questions, please email us at learn@socialimpacthub.org.

Application Process

1. Application: The first stage is to fill in an application. Here we collect your basic information and understand your interest in the Fellowship Program. We will review your application for suitability and if you match what we’re looking formeet the program criteria, we will contact you by email.

2. Interview: If your application has been shortlisted, you will be invited to an interview.

3. Offer: Once the selection process has been finalised and you have been selected, you will be offered a Fellowship position in writing.

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