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Opportunity Summary:

The BJA FY 15 Visiting Fellows Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), designed to bring experienced practitioners and applied researchers into BJA's Policy Office for a temporary, field-focused fellowship. The core purpose is capacity building: BJA wants to leverage real-world state, local, and tribal expertise to help assess emerging needs in criminal justice and to co-develop practical strategies, tools, and policies alongside BJA staff that can be shared nationally. The fellowship is framed around BJAs broader mission of supporting justice strategies that lead to safer communities, with an emphasis on reducing crime and recidivism, limiting unnecessary confinement, and promoting a criminal justice system that is both safe and fair. Fellows are expected to contribute to BJAs policy leadership role by helping produce and disseminate best practices, guidance, and other resources that support agencies and communities.

The program planned to fund up to five visiting fellows using FY 2015 funds, with work aligned to specific priority and emerging issue areas. The announcement indicates funding is likely to come through several related BJA program authorities, including Economic High Tech and Cyber Crime Prevention, Services for Trafficking Victims, the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Program Demonstration Projects, and Swift and Certain Sanctions/Replicating the Concepts Behind Project HOPE. In practice, this means proposed fellowship activities should connect clearly to one or more of these topics, such as cybercrime and technology-enabled offending, victim services and responses to trafficking, reentry and reintegration strategies, preventing and responding to sexual abuse in confinement settings, or supervision and sanctions approaches that emphasize swift and certain responses.

Funding details in the notice describe a maximum award ceiling of $270,000, with no stated minimum award amount (award floor listed as $0), and no cost sharing or matching requirement. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The opportunity was posted on February 3, 2015, with an original closing date of April 2, 2015, later extended to April 16, 2015, and an archive date of May 2, 2015. The Funding Opportunity Number is BJA-2015-4079, and the opportunity references multiple CFDA numbers tied to the program areas noted above (16.320, 16.735, 16.752, 16.812, and 16.828).

Eligibility is intentionally targeted. Applicants may be individuals, or state, local, or federally recognized tribal governments, as well as organizations or academic institutions that want to provide a staff member the chance to serve at the federal level as a visiting fellow. A key condition is that if an organization applies to place one of its employees, that organization will not have programmatic oversight of the employee's fellowship work once placed, reinforcing that the fellow's day-to-day work and deliverables are directed through BJA for the duration of the fellowship. For-profit organizations are allowed to apply only if they agree to forgo any profit or management fee. A special eligibility limitation applies to the Second Chance Act fellow position: applicants for that specific position are limited to individuals who have formerly been incarcerated, reflecting an intent to bring lived experience into federal policy development on reentry.

The fellow qualifications are clearly experience-driven. All fellows must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and should bring at least five years of criminal justice expertise in the relevant practice or research area. The notice emphasizes experience in policy or applied criminal justice settings, which could include operational criminal justice agencies (law enforcement, courts, prosecution, corrections) or closely connected partner agencies such as social service providers, as well as policy-focused offices like a governors or mayors office. For researchers, BJA signals a preference for applied capabilities that translate into field-ready products: developing models and tools, supporting implementation of evidence-based practices, and conducting data collection, analysis, and performance management work. Beyond subject-matter credentials, applicants must also demonstrate administrative, especially fiscal administrative, capacity to manage a federal award and to carry out the proposed fellowship activities successfully; final eligibility is determined after review of a complete application.

Operationally, the fellowship is situated within BJAs Policy Office, which serves as a hub for national criminal justice policy leadership, training, and technical assistance, and works closely with partner organizations to spread best and promising practices. The expectation is that fellows will help BJA spot gaps in the field, translate knowledge into usable guidance, and strengthen collaboration and information sharing across jurisdictions. Technical submission support for applicants was routed through Grants.gov customer support, as noted in the contact information included with the announcement.

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