Hire a Nashville Fellow
Your next great team member may be a Nashville Fellow.
Who are the Nashville Fellows?
Nashville Fellows is a nine-month Christian leadership and discipleship program for recent college graduates. Through paid employment, classes, mentoring, and community life, Fellows explore how their faith shapes the way they work, lead, and serve.
We believe work is a meaningful way to love our neighbors and seek the good of our city. Employers help Fellows put that conviction into practice through everyday responsibilities, professional relationships, and opportunities to contribute.
3 Reasons to Hire a Nashville Fellow
Help shape a future leader by bringing promising talent to your team.
Our Fellows are recent college graduates eager to put their education to work, take on meaningful responsibilities, and contribute to the people and organizations around them.
By hiring a Fellow, you gain a motivated young professional while helping someone build the habits, skills, and relationships that will shape a lifetime of work.
Work with applicants who are carefully selected and ready to grow.
Each year, more than 75 applicants compete for just 12 spots in the Nashville Fellows Program. Every applicant is thoroughly screened and interviewed, and references are checked as part of our selection process.
That careful vetting gives employers confidence in the young professionals we introduce. You have access to a select group of graduates who have intentionally chosen a year of work, learning, service, and personal growth.
Cultivate a long-term partnership with purpose.
Hiring a Fellow gives your organization additional capacity and a fresh perspective. It also gives an emerging professional the opportunity to learn from your experience, receive constructive feedback, and discover where their gifts can make a difference.
We invite employers to offer meaningful work, clear supervision, and opportunities for growing responsibility. A supervisor who takes time to explain a decision, invite a question, or offer encouragement can have a lasting influence on a Fellow’s career.
Together, we can help develop thoughtful, capable leaders who contribute to healthier workplaces and a stronger Nashville.
Bring promising talent to your team. Help shape a future leader.
Your next great team member may be a Nashville Fellow. Our Fellows are recent college graduates eager to put their education to work, take on meaningful responsibilities, and contribute to the people and organizations around them.
By hiring a Fellow, you gain a motivated young professional while helping someone build the habits, skills, and relationships that will shape a lifetime of work.
Bring promising talent to your team. Help shape a future leader.
Your next great team member may be a Nashville Fellow. Our Fellows are recent college graduates eager to put their education to work, take on meaningful responsibilities, and contribute to the people and organizations around them.
By hiring a Fellow, you gain a motivated young professional while helping someone build the habits, skills, and relationships that will shape a lifetime of work.
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Our pillars
These four key pillars have helped shape everything we do throughout the year since our founding.
Study
Discover God’s story and your place in it.
Fellows dedicate significant time to learn more about who God is, what God thinks about them and how both of those things inform how we live and love those around us. Over the course of nine months, Nashville Fellows:
Study the entire Bible from cover to cover.
Attend weekly graduate-level seminary courses.
Read books written by N. T. Wright, C.S. Lewis, John Mark Comer, Augustine, Tim Keller and more.
Immerse themselves in a church family that spurs on spiritual growth.
Live
Fully engage in all of life, both the beautiful and broken parts.
Life is full of ups and downs, and Fellows are encouraged to engage in every moment in close relationship with:
A home church. Every Fellow is placed at a church where they worship and serve with members and regular attenders.
A host family. Fellows live with a host family who attends the church they’re placed at.
Other fellows. In our program, Fellows spend a lot of time together, giving them an opportunity to live life together, celebrate wins, bear each other’s burdens, hold each other accountable and more.
A mentor. Each Fellow is paired with a mentor who offers care, guidance and encouragement.
Work
Develop your vocational skills and learn about ministry in the marketplace.
For roughly 29 hours a week and often in their desired field, Fellows build critical skills for career growth. In addition to learning about the workplace and earning a paycheck, Fellows are encouraged to explore the intersection of faith and work, and put their beliefs to work in the marketplace.
Rest
Foster community through spiritual rest and reflection.
Even Jesus found time to pull away from crowds to be with the Father. We carve out intentional time for Fellows to spend extended periods in the Word, prayer and in communion with God and each other. One of the highlights of this pillar are regularly scheduled retreats throughout the year.
St. Cuthbert’s Way Pilgrimage
In nearly every way, the Fellows year is an adventure, the first steps recent college graduates take down the path of adulthood. Launching a new career, often in a new city, and learning to trust God at every turn. So, it’s only fitting that our time together ends in a pilgrimage where we walk St. Cuthbert’s Way, named after one of North England’s most revered Saints.
This 62.5-mile walk between Melrose Abbey in Scotland and Holy Island just off England’s Northumberland Coast gives our Fellows an extended amount of time to disconnect from the stresses of daily life and be present with the Father and each other. They have the chance to reflect on what they’ve learned and pray about what’s next, wherever God is leading them.
A Fellow’s typical schedule
While the weekly schedule can change due to weekend retreats, holidays or special events, here’s how a Fellow generally spends their time.
Sunday mornings | Church Service
Fellows devote time to their church community twice a week, serving in youth ministry, kids ministry and more.
Monday through Thursday | Work
Hours vary depending on the employer.
Tuesday | Roundtable
6 p.m. – Fellows attend a weekly community meal in a home. This time includes a shared meal, prayer, worship and either a testimony or conversation led by a Fellow.
Friday | Class
8 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. – Fellows attend a Metanarrative of Scripture and Practical Theology classes.
12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. – A leadership lunch featuring a speaker from the Nashville area.