Program Manager at Zenith Society for Socio-Legal Empowerment [Salary Rs. 35k per month; Hybrid]: Apply by Dec 25: Job Post
Table of Contents
- About Zenith
- About the Opportunity
- Duration
- Salary
- About the Program
- Objectives
- Job Overview
- Role & Responsibilities
- Essential Qualifications
- How to Apply?
- Location
- Application Deadline
About Zenith
Zenith Society for Socio-Legal Empowerment is a non-profit organisation working on grassroots legal empowerment of Adivasi, Dalit, and other marginalised communities in Madhya Pradesh.
Zenith works with the community in order to build their capacity in understanding their legal rights, define their ideas of change, and take appropriate measures in order to bring a more just and dignified life. Currently, they operate in three districts in Madhya Pradesh: Shivpuri, Gwalior and Bhind.
About the Opportunity
Zenith is inviting applications for the role of Program Manager, Clinical Legal Education for individuals passionate to work on grassroots legal empowerment.
Duration
One year ( Full time)
Salary
35,000 per month
About the Program
The clinical Legal Education Program aims to build capacities in law schools to work towards grassroots legal empowerment. Law schools were established with the vision of creating social engineers. They believe there is a need to move beyond the existing rigid clinical legal educational structures and create new pathways to involve law students to instil change-making capabilities in them to bridge the gap for communities seeking access to justice.
Involving law students in clinical work has the potential to help build a robust system of learning by doing, sensitizing and preparing young people to create change-making capacity and respond to social issues in any spaces (educational or professional) that they occupy.
Objectives
- Establishing robust student-run Legal Services Clinics/Centre in law colleges, particularly in tier 2 and 3 cities and towns, that will work towards providing legal aid to, and creating justice solutions with, the marginalized and disempowered communities.
- Creating a platform for students to incubate and experiment with ideas in the field of social justice.
- Creating a network of Law School based Legal Services Clinics that will be working in coordination with each other, with shared learnings, to achieve a common larger goal of providing legal services to the last person and developing justice solutions with communities.
- Bringing a shift so that legal services work and problem-solving gets due acknowledgment and recognition in professional spaces, state and non-state spaces.
- Bringing a policy shift so that legal services work and problem-solving become an essential part of the curriculum and academic credits are given for being involved in this work.
Job Overview
The Program Manager will spearhead the program which will be undertaken in 5 local law schools in Madhya Pradesh.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design the program, associated course materials, workshops and training.
- Coordination and collaborations with students, college administration, DLSA, other state and non-state actors and stakeholders in the ecosystem.
- Build capacities of students through training and short courses on perspective building and tools for action.
- Assist students to launch their platforms and undertake justice-related works.
- Navigate the network of law students for shared learnings and best practices.
- Work towards bringing a policy shift to promote problem-solving and action-oriented work as part of the legal aid curriculum.
Essential Qualifications
Graduate (Law or Humanities) + 2 years of work experience in a similar role.
How to Apply?
Interested candidates may fill out the application available on the link at the end of this post.
Location
Hybrid: Remote/Travel to Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Application Deadline
December 25, 2022
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