About the Consultatio Fellowship:

The Consultatio Fellowship allows one recent law graduate the opportunity to work with different verticals at Civis and gain an in-depth understanding of public policy in India, while being a part of a developing eco-system that promotes citizen engagement in law-making.

Responsibilities of the Fellow:

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 and then shooting these videos.
• 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.

Furthering, 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.
• Carrying out workshops for college students in furtherance of building awareness about pre-legislative consultation.

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
• Recording video explainers of key draft policies for Civis’ social media channels.
• 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.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Law degree essential
• 0-2 years of experience, preferably in policy analysis
• Experience with editing law reviews/journals/magazines preferred
• Experience of content creation, specifically video making preferred

Required Skills:

• Ability to understand and learn a content management system for our website
• Demonstrated interest in furthering civic-engagement and participation amongst communities
• A strong interest in mobilising students for college clubs/societies is preferred

Duration of Fellowship: One year full time in-person fellowship, beginning late-June 2025

Stipend: INR 45,000 per month

Deadline: Applications are open till 15 May 2025, 6PM

Location: Mumbai, India (with hybrid work from home)

Contact Information: In case of any queries, write to info[at]civis.vote