Alexis Society City Director Recruitment

Applications are hereby invited for the post of City Director from the below mentioned focus cities.

Last Date of Application: 31st May, 2015.

Send us your CV and Statement of Purpose to india@alexis.co.in

Kindly ensure that the subject of the mail is: “City Director, Name of the City”

Note: It is mandatory for all the shortlisted candidates to attend the following two events – Samvaad and Alexis Group Conclave from 26th – 30th June, 2015 in New Delhi for purposes of training and development.

Focus Cities

Ajmer, Allahabad, Agartala, Agra, Aizawl, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Dharwad, Darjeeling, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Daman, Dehradun, Dispur, Gandhinagar, Gangtok, Gaya, Gwalior, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kavaratti, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mathura, Mumbai, Mysuru, Nagpur, New Delhi, Puri, Pune, Panaji, Patna, Patiala, Port Blair, Puducherry, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Silvasa, Singrauli, Srinagar, Surat, Thanjavur, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.

If your city is not in the above list and you wish to start a chapter in your city, please write to us at india@alexis.co.in

Work Areas

Art and Culture, Environment, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Minorities Empowerment, Social Justice, and Women Empowerment.

Eligibility

1. Age: Between 18 – 30 years.
2. Proficiency in using Microsoft Office, Facebook, Skype, YouTube and Twitter.

Desired Skills and Abilities

1. Strong communication skills, including public speaking and writing.
2. Excellent organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects.
3. Excellent analytical and abstract reasoning skills.
4. Experience working with volunteers, non-profits, and community-based organizations.
5. Inclined towards mentorship and teaching in order to improve the knowledge and professional abilities of others.
6. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
7. Ability to think strategically, creatively problem solve, exercise good judgment and lead change.
8. Ability to work in a dynamic team and build strong working relationships.
9. Ability to flexibly share leadership and build consensus.
10. Ability to take initiative and take difficult decisions when necessary.  

Indicative Work Profile of a City Director

1. Promoting Society’s Aims, Objectives and Initiatives.
2. Planning and Organizing Activities to promote Society’s Objectives.
3. Conducting Public Awareness & Welfare programmes.
4. Reporting City Activities to Regional Director.
5. Recruiting new members.
6. Establishing new clubs in Educational Institutions.
7. Establishing a democratic, accountable and transparent organization structure at city level by delegating duties to members.
8. Fundraising for fulfilling financial needs of above mentioned programmes.
9. Making known the above activities to electronic, print and social media.
10. All other activities incidental to fulfill above points.

Role and Responsibilities of a City Director

1. Keep track of events happening across the city.
2. Develop and support effective student-run clubs.
3. Establish and maintain regular communication with students, staff and high-level administrators at colleges and universities (via email, phone, and in person).
4. Think creatively to provide fresh ideas to new members.
5. Work collaboratively with other Project Coordinators and Club Coordinators.
6. Assist in planning and coordinating national and international programmes.
7. Attend various conferences or meetings for providing consultation.
8. Any further decision made by the Governing Body of the society regarding the position will be incorporated.

Recruitment Policy

1. We are an Equal Opportunity Organization.
2. We firmly believe in Diversity.
3. Female Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
4. Shortlisting of candidates is done on basis of CV/Resume.
5. Every selection is done purely on merit basis.

Benefits

1. Exposure of working in a youth-led organization.
2. A platform to nurture your ideas and create positive impact.
3. Professional Growth through Networking and Skill Development.
4. Recommendation or Work Experience Certificate is provided on successful completion of your tenure or on demand, when required.

Terms and Conditions

1. This position is tenured, part-time, voluntary and unpaid.
2. We are looking for atleast 12 months commitment from you.
3. You will be required to devote atleast 12 hours per week.
4. You will be put on probation for 3 months from date of selection.
5. A Performance review will be conducted after completion of 3 months.

What We Look For?

We recruit exceptional people with outstanding capabilities and great potential.

Some of the qualities we look for in our people:

1. Accountability
2. Creativity
3. Curiosity
4. Discipline
5. Empathy
6. Integrity
7. Leadership
8. Professionalism
9. Technological Awareness

Why You Should Join Us?

1. Leadership Training
2. Networking Opportunities
3. Personality Development
4. Professional Growth
5. Recognition
6. Respect
7. Satisfaction
8. Social Impact
9. Work Experience

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ALEXIS INSIGHTS: INTERNSHIP – JULY-SEPTEMBER, 2015

Alexis Insights, the official blog of Alexis Foundation is hereby inviting applications for its Online Internship cum Recruitment Programme from undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students interested in writing on contemporary issues in economics, public policy, psychology, law, information technology, strategy, and management.

Eligibility: Open to all students above 18 years.

Place: Online.

Duration of Internship: 1st July, 2015 – 1st September, 2015.

Stipend: This is a voluntary and unpaid opportunity.

Certificates: The candidates who will perform all the assigned tasks within the prescribed time limit will be given duly recognised certificates.

Reference/Recommendation Letter for Higher Studies/Job:  All persons associated with us for a period of six months or more will be eligible to receive a recommendation letter from our side (need basis).

Progression System: We have a six-tier progression system:

Intern – 0-2 months
Editorial Intern – 2-4 months
Assistant Editor – 4-6 months
Associate Editor – 6-9 months
Editor – 9-12 months
Senior/Executive Editor – 12 months & beyond

Your progression to the next level will depend on satisfactory performance at the previous/initial level.

Main tasks:

1. Writing articles for the blog.
2. Content creation, engagement and promotion on social media channels.

Deadline for submission of application: 31st May, 2015.

Procedure for Application: The candidates are required to send in their CVs along with a Statement of Purpose for joining the organisation. Applications should be mailed to: info@alexis.org.in

Recruitment Policy:

• We are an Equal Opportunity Organization.
• We firmly believe in Diversity.
• Female Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Shortlisting of candidates is done on basis of CV/Resume.
• Every selection is done purely on merit basis.

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Verdict: The Trial of Salman Khan (By A Salman Khan Fan)

Salman Khan was slapped with a five year imprisonment sentence for conviction under culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, a section under the Indian Penal Code Enacted in 1860, that is three years after the revolt of 1857 and some 87 years prior to our independence, add a 68 years of post independence time and you get somewhere around 155 years. In the last 155 years of the existence of the IPC, it is safe to say that ‘numerous’ convictions and consequent punishment has been meted out by the British Courts for 9 decades and then the Indian Courts for close to 7 decades now.

India comes from a common law system, where the civil and punitive legal frameworks are similar if not identical to a lot of common law countries.

Driving under the influence or DUI as it is popularized by western legal themed shows, is a lot more serious offence outside India.

Coming back to Salman Khan, firstly I would like to openly say that I love the actor, the person, his charity work, his movies. I think he is the second best Khan after Amir, and this is when SRK is my college alumni. So I won’t make a hateful, judgmental case against Salman Khan.

Let us look at the incidence, Salman Khan, a famous actor, got under the influence of alcohol, lost control of his car and accidentally killed a person. This is supposedly the actus reus of the situation. As preliminary legal education may tell you, that intoxication, voluntary intoxication can not be claimed to do away with the guilt par. Mens Rea need not be established in such a case.

Therefore the real contention all along for establish the factum whether Bhai drove that car or not, which eventually the court, upon appreciating the evidence did establish and after excruciatingly long trial of 13 years have given a conviction.

I am simply going a take a few key issues and discuss them here now.

1.     What does this conviction mean?

2.     Is this case of targeting a celebrity? Why don’t we prosecute ministers, other criminals?

3.     Is justice delayed, justice denied? What we fail to see?

4.     Is the conviction, in the face of the charity work and other things Salman Khan has been doing, really necessary?

5.     What is the theory of punishment?

6.     Should we punish the good guys for rare bad deeds?

·      Does this conviction really mean that Salman Khan goes to jail for the next five years?

He still has two appellate courts left and his legal team(s) will do their utmost to ensure he stays out. If all these attempts fail, he may just go to jail. So there is a long time before he actually sees jail time and seeing the stellar legal team he has access to, he seems bailed out for now.

·      Is this case of targeting a celebrity?

I don’t think so, in the last 155 years of IPC, numerous convictions have been made with the same statutes, same criminal procedure. Often for poor people, you won’t see the trial even start for years and worse, wrongful convictions, political witch hunt, personal vendettas and so on.

You will often find cases, where an innocent person is made the scapegoat to protect a more important person. This would have been the case had the court accepted the contention and concluded that it was the driver and not Salman Khan driving the car.

(All this is under the premise that he actually did commit the act under consideration).

So far as the court is concerned, they followed the due process and a conviction has come.

A popular sentiment has emerged that Salman is going to Jail whereas other criminals are out there, including politicians. As hard as it may be to believe there are 21 High Courts, numerous trial courts in each state and the supreme court, besides many tribunals for taxes, customs, electricity, which are capable of concurrent functioning temporally and the whole system did not stop to prosecute one man. There are 1.65 lacs pending cases just before the Allahbad High Court and this work load is one of the big reasons for the verdicts to get delayed.

·      Is justice delayed, justice denied?

If you have ever been part of any legal proceedings, you will see that it is the lawyer who decides the legal strategies for a client, prepares him for cross examination and often even tells him what to say and what defence to take before the court.

The procedure for criminal prosecution in India is to ensure people are not wrongly convicted and this is used in ingenious ways by advocates for prolonging trials, using dilatory tactics. Not to just blame there here, this is the reason we hire them and pay them a lot of money right, to not go to Jail?

Why do you think it takes long for prosecutions to conclude, because we know exactly how to prolong the trials. Somewhere we start blaming the judiciary for the delays but the real reason is that the system has been used only to ensure cases don’t conclude.

So is justice delayed, justice denied? Maybe in cases where due compensation is the basis of the trial etc but a trial when finally concluded is really commendable and we need to see the efforts of the public prosecutors (which is usually a thankless job) in reaching convictions.

·      Is the conviction, in the face of the charity work and other things Salman Khan has been doing, really necessary?

Salman Khan is a really noble guy person. His initiatives are great, his movies, entertaining and his personality, inspiring. But are these factors relevant while convicting him on the charges, sadly no. The judge sees the law, sees the facts and applies the facts on the basis of the law and decides the case. This is the utopian way of trials but obviously lobbying by lawyers in seeking relief, getting early dates etcetera become relevant factors at times, however herein it is a simple case of a person convicted under a statutory offence. His good actions etc may help mitigate the punishment, which indeed it has, from ten years to five. Does it mean I think he deserved ten, no, none of us have truly read the judgment, as argued by Mr. Salve to really know what the reasons of the Justice Deshpande have been.

·      What is the theory of punishment?

There is plethora of literature discussing the punitive, reformative, exemplary (deterrent), preventive aspects of punishment but another important aspect of criminal trials is that people are punished in consonance with the law of the land prevalent at the time of commission of the offence. With the current jurisprudence of punishment in India, we are located with all aspects, while dominated by the punitive school and as much as we debate on the jail conditions, purpose of imprisonment etc, Salman Khan will have to face the current law of the land with its’ inherent philosophy.

·      Should we punish the good guys for their rare bad deeds?

This, I believe is the most complicated question deeply rooted in more important debates touching on Bentham’s Utilitarian theory, Kantian’s Imperatives and what work a convict can do outside jail than inside, which may make an equally or rather a stronger case in favor for most white collar criminals convicted in inside trading scams, P. Raju, Rajat Gupta, maybe Subroto Roy too.  (Alan Turing in the 1950s)

No doubt these guys may not cause any further harm to the society, and neither are they in jail for preventive reasons, nor will Salman Khan be.

But the day we reach a position, as a society where we can take such optimum decisions to pardon individuals based on things other than their criminal guilt, we will go into chaos, because that day will be the biggest challenge to equality, as the said mechanism will create so much scope for arbitrary decision making and resultant discontent of the people, that I can’t even begin to imagine the results.

No this is not the most perfect system, but this is the best one we have got. If someone wishes to raise an argument of Plea Bargaining, I don’t think, Salman would have gotten away without Jail, even in countries where Plea Bargaining in more widely accepted and advanced.

About the Author:

Keshav Gupta, is a final year law student at Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, besides being an Economics graduate from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi and is the co-founder of The Dais, a Delhi based organisation involved with education management. You can read more of his posts at his blog.

(This post was originally published on The Incomplete Verse)

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Apply for Campus Ambassadors and Research Administrators: Law Mantra [Apply by 30th June, 2015]

LAW MANTRA: INVITATION FOR THE POST OF CAMPUS AMBASSADOR 
& 

RESEARCH ADMINISTRATORS 2015-2016

Law Mantra is an Online Journal and Web Portal, under the chief patron of Hon. Justice K.N Saikia, Former Judge Supreme Court of India, Dr. Hon. Justice Malimath, Former Chief Justice Karnataka and Kerala High Court, Dr. (Prof.) M.P.Singh, Chancellor Central University Haryana, Dr. Prof. Gurjeet Singh, Founder Vice-Chancellor N.L.U.J.A Assam, Prof. (Dr.) Faizan Mustaffa, V.C NALSAR Hyderabad, and other luminaries from the legal fraternity.

Law Mantra is running for the purpose of enhancing legal academics and legal awareness in the society and in the practice of the same. Law mantra also has an ISSN (2321-6417) Online Journal and Print Journal in name of International Journal of Legal Research and Governance which tries to disseminate knowledge and research in various aspects of law. This website offers legal professional and legal aspirants to bring forward their views and ideas through high level of research and get acknowledged in front of masses. This also includes Blog writing, Articles, Essay, Case notes and others literary works.

We, at Law Mantra, believe that change cannot happen without active participation of youth. Hence, we create opportunity for young college-going students.

Position: Campus Ambassador

We are pleased to announce the position of Campus Ambassadors for our web portal Law Mantra for the session 2015-16.

Responsibilities:

As a campus ambassador, your responsibilities would include

·         Informing us about any conference, seminar, workshop in your college or any other college. It would be appreciated if such information is provided to us at the earliest occasion and on priority basis.

·      Conduct interviews of Dean, Director, Principal of your Law Faculty, eminent legal luminaries visiting your law faculty, the guests arriving at your campus etc. for the purpose of publication on interview section of Law Mantra. You have to take at least one interview in a month.

·         Engage in consultations, training and online conferences with our core committee.

·         Promoting Law Mantra in your Institution.

·         Collect feedback from their peers through the use of group interviews, questionnaires and individual interactions.

·          Share the information posted on the website and Facebook page of the Law Mantra

As Campus Ambassadors, you are expected to maintain a certain degree of confidentiality about the work delegated to you. Spread the word in their college about our programmes through the use of social media, publicity materials provided by us and physical interactions with their respective peers.

Position: Research Administrators

Responsibilities: As a Legal Researcher, your responsibilities would include

·         Update Law Mantra on legal issues, news, latest changes in judicial systems of our country. The Researcher also has to update Law Mantra on latest amendments and alteration of statutes by domestic as well as international authoritative bodies. 

·         A legal Researcher shall contribute blogs and articles [having 2000 words (at least 2 articles a month)] on present legal scenario. He/she may choose the topic by his/her own and the after finishing of the work, he must present his final article to the Head of the research team.

·         Research about upcoming events and news. Researcher must enquire and find the latest topics of discussion in the recent legal scenario and must present his report to the Head of the Research team.

·         Preparing of various kind of questionnaires for the purpose of gathering the views of the general public on that topic of concern. The topic can be legal as well as social but must by anyway relate to legal matters.

·         Conduct various survey and research on the legal issues as well as the challenges faced by the common people and the judicial bodies in the process of the administration of justice.

·         Conduct interviews of Lawyers, jurists, Law firm associates and other such signatories, on behalf of Law Mantra, regarding various informative and constructive legal matters.

·         Conduct interviews of Dean, Director, Principal of your Law Faculty, eminent legal luminaries visiting your law faculty, the guests arriving at your campus etc. for the purpose of publication on interview section of Law Mantra. You have to take at least one interview in a month.

·         Engage in consultations, training and online conferences with our core committee.

Work Description: Online work (from home) around 10 hours a week

Qualifications: Students Pursuing LL.B, B.A LL.B Degree

Benefits and Remuneration for the Post of Campus ambassador and Research Administrators: 

It is important to note that the nature of your work will be ‘voluntary contribution’ and you will not be given remuneration for the same. We will provide you with an Experience Certificate at the end of your term i.e. Minimum for 1 year. Free publication in Law Mantra online Journal as well as Print Journal.

We are sure working with us will be a worthwhile experience for you. Your contribution will help us achieve our common goal of making students and teachers community more informed and aware about upcoming opportunities and capitalize them for their fullest benefit.

How to Apply:

• For Campus Ambassador Post Send your updated C.V at aayushi@lawmantra.co.in and For Research Administrator post send your C.V at nilanjan@lawmantra.co.in 

• Position will be contractual basis and person appointed can be removed from the post without any notice if work found unsatisfactory.

• Last Date to Apply: 30^th June, 2015

·         For more details and query contact us +91-8255090897, write us poonam@lawmantra.co.in or visit us www.lawmantra.co.in

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