AGENCY

STEWARDSHIP

Youth Social Enterprise Fellowship

AUTUMN on HVAR

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Fishing boats line Jelsa’s harbor, a bucolic, seaside village on the island of Hvar. The valleys and hillsides are quilted with family vineyards and olive orchards. The island produces countless beautiful, specific things - but this heritage is fading in the face of mass tourism.

The Field Store is our attempt to reinvigorate the traditional skills and products that make Hvar so special. Over the fall, our students - approximately forty children ages six through fifteen - will research, prototype, brand, and sell a small collection of edible island products: sun-dried tomatoes, herb salts, fermented vegetables, foraged teas. The goal is not a school project. We want to establish a real venture driven by the creativity and capacity of our kids, combined with the indescribable beauty of our island.

We are looking for someone who can mentor our faculty in the entrepreneurial aspect of this project (rather than the craft dimension), staging the complex underlying skills of successful venture design and leadership in chunks that students can absorb.

The Fellowship

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    Role

    Field Fellows join our community in a dual role: as a participant — enrolling your own children in the program alongside other Field School families — and as a contributing expert. You will be expected to contribute about one active day each week of organizing, problem-solving, and direct instruction. In addition, this Fellow will probably be inclined to do additional research and exploration of the island’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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    Reciprocity

    In return, we offer a full scholarship covering your children's tuition for the term. We aren't able to cover travel or accommodation, so this works best for families who have the flexibility — whether that's a homeschooling lifestyle, a sabbatical year, or simply the appetite for an unconventional fall.

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    Storytelling

    We'd love to be part of your story if this experience moves you, and we ask for one long-form piece (a podcast episode, Substack essay, or video) within 90 days of your residency, provided that it feels like a natural fit.

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    Dates

    The fall session runs September 7 through November 28, 2026. A shorter summer session is available August 8–22 for those who can't commit to the full term.

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THE PROJECT

The Fellow is responsible for designing and managing the accelerator broadly - deciding the sequence and structure for developing products in parallel to the socio-emotional and critical thinking skills that are foundational to entrepreneurship. You will teach capabilities like hypothesis formation and learning from failure explicitly, to empower children to produce commercially competitive, developmentally meaningful projects.

The accelerator runs across four age cohorts, and will be led on a daily basis by math teachers as part of students’ numeracy and quantitative reasoning education, which lasts for roughly an hour a day, four days per week. Teachers will aim to highlight one mathematical concept or “practicum” in each session. For example, in a session on branding, students might learn about quantitative market research. In a session on pricing, they would explore fixed and variables costs. Our faculty in other academic topics will occasionally highlight interdisciplinary tie-ins: biology and fermentation, for example, or pitch skills and language arts.

“Showcase” moments will include a pitch event to form product teams and a fair to present prototypes — to families, faculty, and members of the local community. The strongest products will be sold to the general public through the Field Store, with proceeds supporting school scholarships.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The right fellow is a practitioner first — someone who ferments, preserves, forages, or works deeply with the food traditions of a particular place. You might be a cookbook author, a food educator, a culinary historian, a chef, or someone with a teaching practice built around seasonal and traditional foodways. We're drawn to people who have a passion for food as cultural memory, and a desire to celebrate food artisanship with children as well as with adults.

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NOMINATE

If someone comes to mind when you read this, please share this page or send us their name and a line about why you think they'd be a good fit. If this sounds like your kind of autumn, we'd love to hear from you directly.

There's no formal application — just reach out to Field School Director Carolyn or book a call.

If you are interested in a full-time role with The Field School of Hvar, please check out our current vacancies.