Clore Leadership Programme 2009/10
Applications are now being invited for 2009/10 Fellowships on the Clore Leadership Programme
Applications are now being invited for 2009/10 Fellowships on the Clore Leadership Programme.
The Clore Leadership Programme is designed to help develop the knowledge, skills, networks and experience of potential leaders across a wide range of cultural activity.
Each Fellow will have an individually tailored programme, lasting a year or longer, and starting in September 2009. This will include:
• Two intensive residential leadership courses
• Professional development through mentoring, tuition and group learning
• Time for reflection, research and debate
• A period of secondment, including experience of managing a high level project.
The closing date for applications is 2 March 2009 by 12 noon
About the Fellowship Programme
In 2009/10 Clore will be offering about twenty Fellowships to exceptional individuals who have the potential to take on significant leadership roles.
The programme is an initiative designed to help develop the skills, knowledge, networks and experience of potential leaders in the cultural sector. They aim to include within the programme the whole range of creative and cultural fields, including the visual and performing arts, film and digital media, heritage, museums, libraries and archives, creative industries, and cultural administration and policy. The programme has been created in response to the difficulties many organisations have experienced in recruiting and retaining leaders at many different levels. Sir John Tusa, Chair, The Clore Leadership Programme stated "The demand for powerful, independent, imaginative leaders in the arts has seldom been greater. Leadership is needed and demonstrated at many levels, and the opportunities for those who combine a wide range of professional skills and exceptional personal qualities are rich. The Clore Leadership Programme exists to enhance and expand the pool of ability that the great national arts community, and audiences that it serves, need and want."
The programme recruits between twenty and twenty five "Fellows" a year, drawn from the cultural sector and beyond, who undertake an individually tailored programme of activities and experience - lasting for a year or longer - designed specifically to meet their own needs and circumstances. The range of elements in the programme include: a period of research on a specific project of practical value to their area of work; tuition, including in management, governance, finance, fundraising, strategic planning, marketing and presentation skills; a period of secondment to a cultural organisation completely different from the one in which they are currently working; and two intensive two-week leadership courses, which will bring all the Fellows together. Each Fellow has an individual mentor (a senior figure from their chosen field), and access to coaching where appropriate.
The Fellow has the option of either taking a full year out on a bursary whilst doing their programme, or of continuing to be attached to their place of work - with their employing institution being compensated for their sustained periods of absence during the year. The hope is that at the end of their Fellowship, they will be of greater value to their existing place of work, and will also be in a position to take on bigger and more demanding roles in future.
Clore are working in partnership with a range of organisations who share our commitment to personal development in the cultural field. The basic administrative costs of the programme are generously met by the Clore Duffield Foundation, who also fund some individual Fellowships. A range of other organisations from the public, voluntary and private sectors (including the Cultural Leadership Programme) are funding Fellowships specially related to their areas of interest.
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