Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership
Supporting achievement and vision for a stronger community
Introduction
The Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership (FIL) fosters leadership, providing exceptional people with the support they need to achieve their vision for their communities.
The Fellowship invests in recognised leaders and provides opportunities to emerging leaders within Victoria’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The value of the investment in building Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership is to improve the economic as well as the social and emotional wellbeing of communities.
The Fellowship supports past, present and future Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders who are committed to achieving positive change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victorians and strengthening links between all Australians.
Over the past 20 years we have appointed 4 Fellows, including 1 Senior Fellow, 28 Emerging Leaders, 4 Community Connection/Grassroots and 1 Leadership Bursary Award.
COVID-19 Information
Everyone can play their part in stopping the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask when out in the community, avoid unnecessary community travel to stop sickness spreading, using good personal hygiene by washing your hands with soap and water, and using alcohol-based hand sanitisers.
We also encourage everyone to regularly check the Coronavirus website as well as their COVID-19 information page for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
We all need to protect our families, our Elders and our Communities so stay safe everyone!
Acknowledgement of Country
The Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership respectfully acknowledges all Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways in Victoria. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.
Latest News
February 2023 – Calling for Applications for 2023
The Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership fosters leadership, providing exceptional people with the support they need to achieve their vision for their communities by investing in recognised leaders and providing opportunities to emerging leaders within Victoria’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
We are currently ‘Calling for Applications’ for a Fellow, an Emerging Leader and a new initiative of a Young Leader for 2023.
The successful applicants will receive a stipend of $70,000 per year for 3 years for a Fellow, $30,000 for one year for Emerging Leader and $10,000 for one year for a Young Leader to enable them to concentrate their efforts on personal and professional development and to focus on leadership in their community.
If you have the attributes of a Fellow, Emerging Leader or a Young Leader we encourage you to apply. Perhaps you know of someone? If so, please pass on this information and support them in their application. Please also pass this onto your networks as they may know of someone who might be interested.
To find out more, and to read about and watch the experiences of the Alumni please refer to the pages on this website.
To apply go to the ‘How to apply’ section on the website.
Your application should include a brief outline of how you will demonstrate your leadership capability, and what impact you believe it will have on your community and the broader Victorian community.
All applications will be assessed by an independent selection panel and all applicants will be advised accordingly of the outcome.
The closing date for applications is 5.00 pm on Friday 14 April 2023.