Senior Associate, Governance | Responsibilities:

• Build relationships with government departments and regulatory authorities that execute consultations. This includes building a pipeline of Ministries to work with, reaching out to IAS officers and pitching Civis’ work to them. Specifically within Civis’ 5 domain areas at the Central level and corresponding Departments in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
• Alongside colleagues, work in tandem with government bodies to conduct consultations. This includes:
• - Designing a consultation methodology (including stakeholder mapping, curation of events etc.)
• - Executing a consultation. Working with our outreach and product teams to ensure greater awareness of and responses to draft laws.
• - Report writing and analysis. Understanding response trends and developing reports.
• - Engage with Ministries in Civis’ 5 thematic areas to ensure that feedback on published consultations is received, and that those departments have adequate resources to make sense of citizens feedback - on consultations.
• Strategise ways to build adoption of the public consultation process from within governments - including technology, training, awards etc. This includes:
• - Lead in the execution of Civis’ Annual Consultation Awards.
• - Work with the governance team to ensure the production of special initiatives like newsletters and reports for legislators and bureaucrats, handbooks and technology tools which promote PLCP.
• - Work to create training collateral and build networks of civil servants to support PLCP adoption.
• - With the Product vertical, work towards user journeys, interviews and roadmaps for Governance linked services.
• - Conduct research and author reports and op-eds on consultation best practices.
• Build partnerships that further Civis’ goals of participatory and responsive governance.
• Build awareness about Civis’ work through speaking engagements, articles and media content.
• Build and maintain internal documentation of processes.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in the governance, policy or advocacy domain.
• A masters degree in the field of governance or public policy is preferred.
• Execution-oriented: You are committed to doing what it takes to execute a project, and you have an implementation focus. You’re highly organised, comfortable managing many work streams and you know how to make the right trade-offs.
• Solution-oriented: You’re able to think of out-of-the-box solutions that work with limited resources.
• Collaborative: You work well with all kinds of people and teams, you’re open to learning from partners and peers.
• Communication: Proven strong oral and written communication skills are a must.
• Data-driven: You have the ability to make sense of large data sets of structured and unstructured data. You have experience working with tools such as R, Strata or Tableau.

Bonus:

• You’re passionate about citizen’s engagement and have volunteered, founded or worked for a citizen engagement or campaigning platform.
• You’ve worked in an entrepreneurial environment which needed you to think on your feet and take decisions independently.

Apply at (on or before September 6, 2024): https://forms.gle/S3WrWxKT87NVeTqX8

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis till the deadline.

Location: Mumbai, India | Full-Time | Remuneration Range: 9 lakh per annum to 10.8 lakh per annum, with additional employee benefits.

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About Civis

At Civis we have developed a platform that enables citizens engagement, in our democracies, by creating a channel for constructive dialogue between citizens and the Government on draft laws and policies.

Through Civis, individuals in India can understand an upcoming law or policy and share their feedback on this law, this feedback goes straight to law makers. This crucial step of consultation allows for participatory design of policies, increased trust and dialogue.

At Civis we work across two verticals:

- On national level policies, through our website www.civis.vote.

- At the grassroots with urban local bodies, and non-profit partners.

On our online platform (www.civis.vote), we:

• Aggregate all open laws seeking feedback.
• Simplify these laws in easy to understand language.
• Translate them in to local languages.
• Reach out to individuals and gather inputs on these laws.
• Analyse and share citizen’s feedback with the Government - building Government capacity to run effective Consultations, and gather actionable insights.

Civis is built and maintained by Civic Innovation Foundation, a non-profit organisation. The foundation is incubated by the Nudge Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore and INFED, IIM Nagpur.