Supported by the Think Tank Fund for Wider Europe, a program of the Open Society Initiate for Europe (OSIFE), Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS) announces the Call for Applications under the Think Tank Young Professional Development Program for MA and PhD graduates who graduated with a PhD, LLM or MA degree in the social sciences and humanities from high-quality universities in the OECD countries in the past two years.

The Think Tank Young Professional Development Program intends to attract recent graduates of MA and PhD programs in the social sciences and humanities to selected think tanks in the Western Balkans and post-Soviet space, giving them an opportunity to gain first-hand policy research and advocacy experience at a renowned think tank in the region.

The program is designed to benefit both young returning professionals and their host organizations. It enables participating think tanks to recruit young researchers originally from the region who recently graduated from universities in the OECD countries. The length of the program is six months, starting in November 2016. At the end of the program, both the Research Fellow and the host organization are expected to submit a final report regarding their activities during the fellowship.

Eligible candidates must fulfill ALL of the following requirements:

• Have graduated in the past two years with a PhD, LLM or MA degree in the social sciences and humanities from universities in the OECD countries.
• Be a citizen of the Republic of Kosovo.
• Applicants should be between 23 and 35 years of age at the time of application.
• Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English and Albanian language.
• Applicants must be ready to return to Kosovo and reside in Prishtina, while working at GLPS during the internship period.

All interested candidates are required to submit their CV and a Motivation/Cover Letter not later than 1^st of August 2016, at Ms. Njomza Arifi, by emailing at: njomza.arifi@legalpoliticalstudies.org.

To access the Call for Applications, please click here.