IDIA: Call for applications for the position of Teamleader

If you are interested in being part of an idea that can change your life, and more importantly, those of underprivileged children, read on. IDIA is a pan India project that seeks to enhance access to quality legal education in favour of disempowered communities. We are now looking for passionate and dynamic student volunteers to lead our various state teams and catapult us to the next stage of growth. IDIA is formally structured as a Trust with four trustees including Justice Ruma Pal (Former Judge of the Supreme Court), Professor M.P. Singh (Former Vice Chancellor of NUJS and Current Chairman of Delhi Judicial Academy), Shishira Rudrappa (Founder of Spire Capital and Bar & Bench) and Professor Shamnad Basheer (MHRD Chair Prof of IP Law, NUJS). However, it is effectively run by some very passionate and dedicated student volunteers from various law schools across the length and breadth of India. These dynamic and hardworking volunteers collectively formthe lifeblood of the IDIA movement. Little wonder then that, in a short span of three years, IDIA has managed to achieve some modest success, with 37 of its scholars (the underprivileged children selected by IDIA for coaching) now studying at various NLUs and other law schools around the country. Our diverse scholars include children of stone quarry workers, farmers, panipuri vendors, painters, drivers, clerks, shopkeepers and many others belonging to marginalized communities. Braving severe odds, they managed to make it to the leading law schools. For more details on IDIA and the profiles of our scholars, please visit our website. Our job does not end with these scholars gaining admission to these coveted National Law Universities. Our real work begins then! The key challenge is in helping these scholars navigate highly challenging law school ecosystems that are for the most part diversity-unfriendly. Our aim is to offer the best possible legal education and opportunities to our scholars, such that they blossom to their full potentialbecoming not just leading lawyers and luminaries, but also social engineers and community leaders, particularly for the communities that they represent. Our Teams: From its inception in March, 2010 till today, passionate law students from various law schools have come together to build more than 20 different teams across India. It is the blood, sweat and tears of these dedicated students (called IDIANS) that have helped IDIA achieve significant impact in a short span of three years. We have state teams as well as All India Verticals as below. State Teams: Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Bengal, Sikkim, Mizoram, Assam (North East), Delhi, Mumbai, Kashmir, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha (17 local teams) All India Verticals: Our All India Verticals consist of the following teams:

RAP (Research and Policy) Admissions and Scholarship

Media and Publicity Training and Materials Website, Blog and Social networks Disability Initiative Fund Raising Mentorship

All details of our teams are available here. Eligibility: Join us if you think you have the potential and dedication to change the lives of those who are less fortunate than you. They need your time, guidance and support to make it to the best law schools in the country and realize their dreams of empowering their community. We prefer stars that shine bright the whole year to meteors that blaze for a short while and then fizzle out! Therefore we are specifically looking for team leaders whod be willing to work the year round and dedicate themselves to the cause. What the job entails: Depending on the kind of team that you pick, you shall be in charge of the overall operations and management of the entire state chapter and be responsible for its day to day functioning. Your task would be to oversee and document every process undertaken by the chapter. You shall be reporting to an IDIA Director who would supervise your activities and provide you timely guidance on how to run your chapter. As a team leader, you shall be expected to visit schools to sensitize students about law as a career, teach selected students for CLAT, mentor our scholars who are already in law school on how to cope with academics, prepare questions for aptitude tests, research on issues of diversity, reservations and scholarships, facilitate admissions of students, co-ordinate with media and funding agencies, help raise local funds for the sustenance of your chapter etc. How to apply: Send us your CV along with a short statement of purpose on why you think you shall be able to lead an IDIA State Team and your motivations behind joining us. Please mention the name of the state chapter you wish to apply for. Anyone who wishes to apply for the leadership position in an All-India Vertical like RAP, Admissions and Scholarship, Media and Publicity, Training and Materials, Website, Blog and Social networks, Disability Initiative, Fund Raising and Mentorship may also do so. The CV, along with the statement of purpose should be sent to <85.arnab@gmail.com> with a copy to info@idialaw.com by midnight of July 21, 2013. Incentives for team leaders: IDIA is at present seeking arrangements with the law firms and corporate organizations that support IDIAs cause to work out coveted internship opportunities for deserving team

leaders. There is also the opportunity of being recognized as an IDIA-Herbert Smith Fellow for selected team leaders delivering exemplary performance.
IDIA is trying to work out an arrangement with some law firms/other partner organizations for preferred internships for our teamleaders.

You could also speak to our team leaders to get a better sense of the work of a team leader and each team. Write to us at info@idialaw.com for more details and to be a part of this movement. Lastly, even if you do not wish to join a team specifically but are interested in being updated on IDIA activities, please feel free to join the IDIA email list, by dropping an email to info@idialaw.com indicating your interest in joining our list (where we discuss IDIA updates and important policy issues).