Civis invites applications for 2nd Consultatio Fellowship

Civis invites applications for 2nd Consultatio Fellowship 2023.

About this Role

Facilitating and managing public consultations on draft laws and policies on the platform. This includes:

• Scoping and staying updated on new draft policies open for consultation by Centre and State governments, along with local level authorities and updating the team about the same.

• Keeping tabs on the deadlines, extensions of various consultations and updating them on Trello and Civis’ backend admin panel accordingly.

• Writing and editing scripts for consultations where videos are being made

• Mapping the relevant policy update against the given consultation

• Creating and maintaining an archive of past consultations

Managing the Policy Leaders Internship Programme, which includes:

• Keeping tabs on the internship cycles and sending out the internship invitations

• Conducting initial cohort sessions for onboarding the interns

• Assigning interns draft policies open for consultation in order to create citizen-friendly resources that break down legal and technical jargon.

• Editing draft summaries received from interns in adherence to Civis’ Legal Summary Guidelines

• Reviewing performance of interns along with conducting mid-cohort checkins

• Assigning and reviewing blogs written by interns and publishing them on Civis’ medium blog.

Tracking and reporting progress of pre-legislative consultation process in India

• Creating a comprehensive database of public consultations available with Civis’ as well as other publicly accessible forums

• Keeping a tab on the policy updates related to the public consultations, i.e. if there are new rules, laws, etc. mandating or changing how public consultations operate.

• Analysing data and reviewing consultation related metrics to gain insights into the public consultation domain in India.

Assisting in Outreach and Communications

• Drafting and sending emails to Civisens where responses have been successfully received by the Ministry/Department seeking feedback

• Supporting with creating a script for communication of the consultation on WhatsApp/IVRS

• Assisting in outreach activities for specific projects

Supporting the product management team with chatbot management and FAQs on Civis’ work on specific consultations

Supporting the governance team with:

• Drafting and sending Citizen Engagement Reports in cases of successful public consultations.

• Identifying PLCP Champions from past government consultations

• Drafting consultation summaries for government partners

Application Deadline: 14th May 2023.

How to Apply: Applications must be submitted via this link.

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