Deadline: 26-Nov-21
The Acumen Academy’s 2022 India Fellows Program is now open to develop a community of leaders who challenge the status quo, work across lines of difference and inspire their communities to believe in a brighter future.
The Fellowship is the start of a journey towards mastering the skills, attributes, and values of moral leadership: a combination of empathy, immersion, understanding, and action. What binds the Fellows is shared values, a common commitment to a world beyond poverty and injustice, a pledge to accompany one another, to help and celebrate one another, and to hold each other to account.
The Fellowship is designed for individuals who are currently leading or are an integral part of building an initiative whose mission is to eradicate poverty or injustice. The Fellows are of all ages, come from diverse cultural, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds and work across multiple sectors.
The Acumen Fellows Program will bring together exceptional leaders from across India who are daring to embrace the difficult journey of social change. Over the course of the year, the Fellow will come together to learn with–and from–each other.
As a deeply bonded cohort, they will engage with a curriculum that is based on practical skills and character, geared towards action and grounded in the value of moral leadership. After they finish the first year of the Fellowship, the Fellows join the global community of more than 1000 Fellows.
Acumen Academy is looking for:
The Fellows are all ages, come from diverse cultural, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds and work across multiple sectors.
The India Fellows Program is for individuals who are currently leading, or are an integral part of building an organization or initiative that exists to eradicate poverty and are actively changing the systems they operate in. They work full-time on this initiative and typically fall in one of the following trajectories:
- Social entrepreneurs who have launched or lead their own social change initiatives (non-profit or for-profit).
- Social intrapreneurs who are running a social change initiative within an existing organization (private or public sector).
- Organizational builders who are an integral part of building a social change organization, but do not play a founding role.
Benefits
In the Fellowship Program You Will:
- Learn to catalyse and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change at the personal, organisational, and societal levels
- Cultivate the ability to lead effectively when opposing but interdependent values are in tension
- Understand how to lead diverse stakeholders through recurring and complex challenges
- Develop the capacity to tell meaningful stories that speak across lines of difference and move others to action
- Examine your identities, values, and choices that have shaped your journey till now and cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a broader context
- Explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through text-based dialogue
- Navigate systemic problems and design more effective interventions using moral imagination
- Question your assumptions and beliefs about leading effective change
- Be supported and accompanied by a cohort of like-minded peers persevering in the process of driving social change
Duration
- The fellowship is a mix of offline and online seminars, involving a time commitment of approximately 30 days in the year.
Eligibility Criteria
- All seminars and training are conducted in English. Conversational proficiency in English is a requirement to ensure Fellows are able to give and get the most from this experience.
- consider applications from citizens of India. They will, on an exceptional basis, consider applicants who demonstrate a concrete connection to the region (ie. long-term employment, residency, the focus of the social change project).
- Each cohort of Acumen Fellows must be comprised of individuals who have not previously taken part in an Acumen Fellowship. This is specific to Acumen’s programs; candidates who have participated in other fellowships or leadership programs, or who have taken Acumen Academy courses, are welcome to apply.
For more information, visit https://acumenacademy.org/fellowship/india/