The NIUVT Fellowship is a development opportunity for organizations in this geographically close and technologically overlapping undersea technology ecosystem to deliberately develop mid-career professionals on a path to senior leadership positions. The fellowship is a 6-month experience for applicants from academia, government, and industry to rotate into a different sector and work inside a different organization while participating with the cohort of fellows in monthly networking and broadening experiences. The ecosystem is geographically small enough that we can have this opportunity without relocating people and do it at no cost to participants or organizations involved. We are currently recruiting host organizations and applicants for the summer of 2021.  Applicants must have the support of their leadership to apply.

As a group, fellows will visit with the strategic leadership of every participating organization in addition to a few others. They will also participate in ongoing NIUVT activities and research throughout the course of the fellowship. This fellowship is an opportunity to mix the ecosystem, create stronger networks, and bring perspectives from government, academia, and industry directly into organizations and opposing sectors. After six months, fellows return to their employer with a different perspective, a stronger network, and reinvigorated to tackle the challenges of the undersea vehicle technology community. Not only will the fellow benefit, but each organization taking in a fellow with a different perspective will stand to benefit from their different experience, perspective, and network as well.

More information for interested organizations or applicants can be found at https://niuvt.us/workforce-development/fellowship/.