Closes at: 5:00 p.m. Eastern on Friday, January 24, 2025
The NOAA Office for Coastal Management is recruiting candidates for the 2025 Coastal Management Fellowship Program. This program provides on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students while offering project assistance to state and territory coastal zone management agencies and other key NOAA partners.
This two-year fellowship offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and reimbursement for travel and relocation expenses.
The six fellowship positions, starting in August 2025, are available with the following host organizations:
• Maine Coastal Program/Maine Department of Marine Resources
• Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
• New Hampshire Coastal Program
• North Carolina Division of Coastal Management
• Oregon Coastal Management Program
• U.S. Virgin Islands Coastal Zone Management Program
Note, you do not apply for or specify a particular host placement in your materials.
Complete eligibility requirements, project descriptions, and application guidance can be found in this 2025 NOAA Coastal Management summary document as well as on the fellowship website, and general fellowship information and background is available here.
To be eligible for the 2025 Coastal Management Fellowship, applicants must have completed a master’s or other advanced degree at an accredited U.S. university between August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2025. A wide range of degrees are applicable due to the diversity of projects among the host organizations.
All applications must include the following items:
1. Resume or curriculum vitae (not to exceed two pages using 12-point font).
2. Statement of the applicant’s goals with emphasis on what the applicant expects from and can contribute to the fellowship experience. This should also include how the fellowship can help reach goals that may be difficult to reach without the fellowship opportunity. Include any obstacles that have been overcome to reach this point in your academic career (500 words or less).
3. Two letters of recommendation, including one from the applicant’s principal professor. If no principal professor exists, the faculty member who is most familiar with the applicant’s academic work may be substituted.
4. Unofficial copies of all undergraduate and graduate student transcripts.
Any additional materials submitted will not be considered in the selection process. If you are selected as a finalist, an additional writing sample will be requested.
Applicants with complete packages submitted by the deadline will be interviewed by the New York Sea Grant Director and Research Coordinator to inform the decision whether the candidate will advance to the NOAA Office of Coastal Management. Application packages must be submitted to the New York Sea Grant office by Friday, January 26, 2024. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Graduate students at New York institutions must apply through the New York Sea Grant program using this submission portal. Submission via email or postal mail will not be accepted.
Notes for your Fellowship Application:
• Make sure your application includes all four required parts as listed above and on the fellowship “Fellow Eligibility Selection” web page and in the pdf document in the related files box to the left.
• Letters of recommendation can be submitted through this portal separately by each letter writer coming to this page, clicking on “Apply Now”, and selecting “Letter of Recommendation” from the drop-down list. They must provide their contact information on the form. For the title, they should use their last name followed by “letter of recommendation for” followed by your name. Make sure your letter writers are aware of the due date. Letters of recommendation that miss the deadline result in an incomplete application and will not be accepted (and will disqualify your application).
• Unofficial copies of all undergraduate and graduate student transcripts are required and are usually supplied as PDFs, which can be combined with your application or uploaded separately.
• Once your application has been compiled into a single PDF, please save the file by printing it to PDF and submitting that file.
For interested students submitting through New York Sea Grant, when your application is ready return to this page and:
- Click "Apply Now" below.
- Where it says “Select:” in the middle column, select “Fellowship Application” from the drop-down list. If not already selected.
- Under “Applicant” provide all required contact information.
- Title should be in the format “2025 NOAA Coastal Management and Digital Coast Fellowship for…”
- Browse and upload your application file(s) then click the submit application button.
Note that the deadline time is based on the server clock displayed on the top right of the submission form not your computer’s time. Note the time remaining displayed in red.
