We are looking to recruit for the positions of:
Senior Researcher - Inclusive Platform Models
Call for Graphic Designers & Typesetters
Policy Researcher - Gender and Digital Economy
Policy Researcher - Digital Rights
Finance, Accounts and Administration Office
Technology Associate - Speech Recognition
Location: Bengaluru
We are looking for a research intern based out of Bengaluru to work with us on a research project on labour and platform cooperatives for a period of 6 weeks, starting immediately. This is a paid opportunity.
Role and Responsibilities:
1. Translate one interview questionnaire from English to Kannada.
2. Conduct in-depth interviews with 50 Kannada speaking women working in the beauty and salon sector 3. Translate and transcribe all interviews verbatim, from Kannada to English.
Skills and Experience of the Candidate:
1.Bachelors or Masters degree in a social sciences discipline e.g. labor relations, economics, sociology, anthropology, literature, and other related streams (we invite applications from candidates currently pursuing their degrees as well).
2. Strong Kannada language skills - reading, writing and speaking.
3. Availability for 5 full working days per week, for 6 weeks, starting first week of September. (This is open to discussion).
4. Interpersonal skills and the ability to form a rapport to enable qualitative interviews.
Preferable - prior experience of having conducted qualitative interviews with workers, in Kannada.
Kindly write to sonakshi@itforchange.net, cc natasha@itforchange.net with the subject line: "Application - Research Intern", with your most updated CV attached, and relevant skills and experience mentioned in the body of the email. Accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Location: Bengaluru/Remote
We are looking for a Communications Associate to provide strategic guidance to, and play an active role in, the organization's external communications activities and internal knowledge management processes. The ideal candidate must have a keen interest in the issues of digital and data rights and development justice and should be able to translate organizational research into accessible material for public consumption. The Communications Associate will work on how to make our vision, mission, and work resonate with various audiences, and take the lead in driving and implementing our communications strategy.
We are specifically looking for candidates with beginner to intermediate level background in design and familiarity with Adobe InDesign, Canva, Mailchimp, etc. Preference will be given to candidates willing to move to Bengaluru, but possibilities for remote work can be negotiated.
Primary responsibilities:
-Developing and executing creative and high-impact visibility, dissemination, and communication strategies for the organization’s active projects, networking, and advocacy efforts.
- Guiding the organization’s regular public-facing dissemination, including newsletters and social media strategy, for maximizing impact.
- Reviewing, editing, and harmonizing all public-facing content of the organization, including website/s, funder correspondence, concept notes, and reports.
- Supporting the editorial, production, dissemination, and audience aspects of Bot Populi, an online magazine, started by 7 international organizations including IT for Change.
- Supporting the development and design of research and advocacy materials in-house, using relevant graphic design software.
- Monitoring and evaluating communication strategies, tracking and growing the dissemination footprint of all outputs of the organization.
- Creating protocols and systems, including databases, for expanding the contacts and communities associated with the organization’s mandate.
Interested candidates must have:
- A passion for communications, knowledge processes, and advocacy on digital rights and global politics of development.
- A Master’s degree in Communications, Media Studies, English, or the Social Sciences.
- 2-4 years of professional experience in communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field.
- Very high proficiency in academic and non-academic writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated experience using Canva (or other design software), MailChimp, WordPress, InDesign, and other key communications tools.
How to apply:
Email your CV and a writing sample/communications portfolio to jobs-Communications-Associate[at]itforchange[dot]net by August 18. Interested candidates are requested to not wait for the deadline and apply at their earliest convenience. Remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Status: Open
Senior Researcher - Inclusive Platform Models
Location: Bengaluru
IT for Change is looking to recruit a researcher with a keen interest in techno-design and a penchant for exploring and developing alternative digital enterprise models with communities and social enterprises. This is for our inclusive platform models track through which we examine the future-of-work question for groups such as MSMEs, farmers, informal workers, etc. The ideal candidate will have about 5-7 years of experience with published research, a flair for writing (academic and non-academic), demonstrated track record in leading teams/ supervisory roles, comfort with working in interdisciplinary teams, and a political economy orientation towards understanding issues of gender in the digital economy.
Interested applicants must have:
- A PhD/Masters' degree including but not limited to, development studies, public policy, economics, gender studies, political economy studies, and other allied degrees
- 5-7 years of demonstrable research experience, of which at least 3 years in a team lead / supervisory position
- Experience in working on social and economic justice issues in the digital / platform economy using intersectional approaches that integrate development theories, critical gender studies, feminism, and other lines of inquiry
- Strong analytical writing and publication experience in relation to economic analysis of digital economy related issues
- Ability to respond to policy developments and produce research briefs in a quick-footed manner
- Expertise in empirical data collection and analysis using statistical tools
Primary responsibilities include:
- Supervising a team of researchers towards managing project deliverables
- Carrying out independent research with field partners, and developing written outputs from research initiatives, including reports, academic articles, media pieces, and explainers
- Managing multi-partner / stakeholder relationships
- Anchoring donor co-ordination and documentation requirements, compliance, and M&E tracking for the project
- Inputting into and supporting policy consultations and other national and global advocacy opportunities in the domain to influence norms development.
How to apply:
Interested candidates should apply to <jobs-inclusiveplatformmodels@itforchange.net> with a CV and a writing sample/portfolio by May 21. Designation and remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Status: Closed
Call for Graphic Designers & Typesetters
We are looking for freelance graphic designers and typesetters who can work with us on a needs basis to create engaging visual material for our research outputs and advocacy campaigns.
Primary Responsibilities:
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Conceptualize and design visuals for projects on labor, data rights, internet governance, and gender
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Custom-design graphics for advocacy campaigns
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Design cover pages, posters, and illustrations for various outputs for digital and print
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Create templates and wireframes for microsites
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Format, style, and typeset research papers, compendiums, essay series, reports, etc., on Adobe InDesign
Requirements:
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2-5 years of proven design experience
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Proficiency in programs such as Adobe Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Illustrator
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Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography, print, and web
Email your CV and portfolio of work to comms@itforchange.net. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Status: Accepting applications
Research Associate – Labor (full-time)
Location: Bengaluru
IT for Change is looking to hire a Researcher to undertake our engagements and projects around issues of platform workers and other digitalization-related labor concerns.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Supporting research on emerging challenges of labor in relation to digitalization
- Tracking changes and updates on the national and global policy arenas around labor
- Assisting with organizing sessions, campaigns, and attending/presenting at national and international advocacy events
- Developing written outputs from research initiatives, including reports, academic articles, media pieces, and explainers
- Enabling the execution of capacity-building initiatives, even in local languages (knowledge of Kannada/Tamil/Hindi preferred)
Interested candidates must have:
- A Master’s degree in social sciences, including but not limited to, law, public policy, economics, and other allied degrees
- 3+ years of demonstrable research experience
- Excellent technical and academic writing skills
- Training and familiarity with research methodologies
- A strong public policy orientation
- Independent project management capacity with a focus on action plans and expected deliverables
- Experience with managing people and resources effectively in asynchronous, global arrangements
Remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications. Please note this position is only open for Indian nationals.
How to apply?
Interested candidates may apply to jobs-labor-researcher[at]itforchange[dot]net, with a CV and independently-authored writing samples/portfolio. The subject line should be ‘Research Associate – Labor’.
Status: Closed
IT for Change’s education team is on the lookout for teachers having the ambition to bring about systemic change in the quality of education offered in government and aided schools in India. We are looking for teacher-educators with prior work experience of 2+ years in the fields of Mathematics or Science or Kannada or Social Science.
Job Profile:
- Develop digital curricular resources in Mathematics, Science, English, Kannada, and Social Science.
- Design and conduct professional development programs for school teachers and teacher-educators, as part of IT for Change’s education team.
- Visit schools regularly to assist teachers in integrating new pedagogies in the classroom. This will involve developing lesson plans, transacting, and documentation.
- Explore ICT integration in Mathematics and language teaching, including educational software tools.
- Contribute to building subject-teacher networks within districts and across the state of Karnataka and other states in India.
Desired Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum 2 years of school-teaching experience in Science or Kannada.
- Strong competence in identified subjects.
- Fluent in speaking and writing English. Proficiency in Kannada is useful. For Kannada method teachers, fluency in reading and writing in Kannada is a must.
- Keenness to explore new processes and technologies, as well as comfort in using computers, though no expert knowledge is necessary.
- Deep understanding of and interest in education and Indian social contexts.
- People skills and the ability to work well with a team are essential.
- Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and would not be a constraint for the right candidate. It will be a minimum of Rs. 40,000/month and will not be a constraint for the deserving candidate.
- The job would be exciting and 'cutting edge' (innovating new models of teacher education in India), and has scope for immense job satisfaction.
Location:
The place of work will be Bengaluru, with occasional travel across Karnataka and India.
How to Apply:
Please email your CV to Jobs-TE@itforchange.net
IT for Change’s education team is on the lookout for teachers having the ambition to bring about systemic change in the quality of education offered in government and aided schools in India. We are looking for teacher-educators with 0-2 years of work experience in the fields of Mathematics or Science or Kannada or Social Science.
Job Profile:
- Provide support for the development of digital curricular resources in Mathematics, Science, English, Kannada, and Social Science.
- Provide support for designing and conducting professional development programs for school teachers and teacher-educators, as part of IT for Change’s education team.
- Visit schools regularly to assist teachers in integrating new pedagogies in the classroom. This will involve developing lesson plans, transacting, and documentation.
- Exploring ICT integration in Mathematics and language teaching, including educational software tools.
- Contribute to building subject-teacher networks within districts and across the state of Karnataka and other states in India.
Desired Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum 0-2 years of school-teaching experience in Science or Kannada.
- Strong competence in identified subjects.
- Fluent in speaking and writing English. Proficiency in Kannada is useful. For Kannada method teachers, fluency in reading and writing in Kannada is a must.
- Keenness to explore new processes and technologies, as well as comfort in using computers, though no expert knowledge is necessary.
- Deep understanding of and interest in education and Indian social contexts.
- People skills and the ability to work with a team are essential.
- The place of work will be Bengaluru, with occasional travel across Karnataka and India.
- Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and would not be a constraint for the right candidate. It would be a minimum of Rs. 25,000/month.
- The job would be exciting and 'cutting edge' (innovating new models of teacher education in India), and has scope for immense job satisfaction.
Location:
The place of work will be Bengaluru, with occasional travel across Karnataka and India.
How to Apply:
Please email your CV to Jobs-TE@itforchange.net
Policy Researcher - Gender and Digital Economy
Location: Bengaluru
This track focuses on questions of labor, gender, data, and technology in the digital economy with a focus on economic and social policy. Changing macroeconomic conditions, labor market dynamics, gender relations, and gender-responsive governance of data and the digital economy are the core areas of inquiries in this track. Expertise in macro-economic policy, labor, and gender, and handling of quantitative data is highly desirable.
The ideal candidate will lead and support research on cutting-edge themes within the pertinent track, undertake socio-economic and legal analysis and engage actively in national and global policy processes.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Steering policy and legal research addressing social justice and equity with respect to the pertinent track.
- Inputting into and supporting policy consultations and other national and global advocacy opportunities in the domain to influence norms development.
- Assisting with organizing sessions and attending/presenting at national and international advocacy events.
- Developing written outputs from research initiatives, including reports, academic articles, media pieces and explainers.
- Supporting organizational grant development and collaboration and M&E activities of projects.
Interested candidates must have:
- PhD/Masters' degree including but not limited to gender and development studies, public policy, economics, critical media studies, feminist studies, and other allied degrees.
- 3 - 5 years of demonstrable research experience, of which at least 2 years of experience in working on issues of gender justice in the digital / platform economy.
- Excellent analytical and academic writing skills.
- Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Experience in participatory design methodologies would be a plus.
- Strong public policy orientation
Desirable
- Oral/written fluency in Kannada/Hindi.
- Fluency in handling social media platforms for outreach and communications.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply to 'jobs-gender-digital-economy[at]itforchange[.]net, with a CV and a writing sample/portfolio. The subject line should be ‘Policy Researcher – Gender and Digital Economy’.
Apply by November 14, 2022
Designation and remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications
Finance, Accounts and Administration Officer
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Job summary
Key member of the team responsible for finance, accounting, and office administration activities. The position will be part of the management of the organization and the person will report to the Senior Finance, Accounts, and Administration Officer. The person will participate in and direct the following activities personally or through the four-member accounts and administration team, under the guidance of the Senior Finance, Accounts, and Administration Officer.
Accounting and Finance
• Participate in developing and implementing goals, policies, and procedures relating to financial management and accounting
• Prepare organizational and project budgets, monitor expenses with respect to budgets, and perform variance analysis and cost control
• Record financial transactions in the books of accounts, maintained by project and cost centers
• Maintain staff payroll, receivables, and payables
• Perform funds planning and cash flows, including liaison with banks
• Provide inputs for proposals and prepare reports to funders
• Prepare MIS reports for senior management
• Coordinate finalization of accounts and work with auditors and agencies for all statutory compliances
Office Administration
• Participate in developing and implementing policies and procedures relating to office administration.
• Handle overall administration of Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mysuru offices
• Coordinate with vendors for office requirements, insurance, and AMCs
• Procure office equipment, stationery and track fixed assets of the organization
• Support organizing workshops and events, including logistics
• Induct new employees
• Any other task required to fulfill the responsibilities of the role
Qualification and experience
- The candidate should have completed Inter CA
- The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in financial accounting. Candidates having experience in handling audits/ accounts and administration of medium-sized organizations would be preferred
- the candidate should preferably be below 35 years as of 31 March 2022
Job requirements
• High levels of ownership and drive required
• Good team management and project management skills
• Strong numerical and analytical skills. Proficiency in MS Office (Excel and Word) is essential.
• Good spoken and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience and skills and will not be a constraint for the right candidate. The annual compensation is expected to be between 6 and 9 lakhs per annum.
Application
Please apply with your resume by 20th April 2022 to sfaao[at]itforchange[dot]net
Advocacy Associate
Location: Bengaluru / Delhi, India
Full-time
About Just Net Coalition (JNC)
Just Net Coalition (JNC) is a global network of civil society actors committed to an open, free, just and equitable Internet. Founded in February 2014, the coalition engages on topics of the internet and its governance, with the goal to promote democracy, human rights, and social justice. IT for Change serves as the secretariat of JNC.
JNC, through its coalition members and allies, is currently engaged in a process of driving systematic development of digital governance perspectives in key sectors of development. Through deliberations and dialogue among civil society organizations and a bottom-up processes to map the key priorities for digital governance, we are working to shape our global advocacy agenda for the mid-term.
We seek an Advocacy Associate to help steer this process by leading the community/coalition-building efforts of JNC with stakeholders in the digital justice space. The involves coordinating the global advocacy and research activities of the coalition, as well as taking on the challenge of scouting for and initiating new networking arenas and opportunities, widening the impact of the coalition’s work, and forging meaningful collaborations with diverse stakeholders.
This is a high-energy job and the ideal applicant must demonstrate persuasive communication and people skills, proactive thinking, and the ability to thrive and excel in situations and contexts that are out of their comfort zone.
Primary responsibilities:
- Coordinating with stakeholders from current networks and reaching out to new constituencies for networking and alliance-building opportunities.
- Developing and putting in place collaborative work protocols and communication processes to ensure alliances are meaningful, productive, and mutually rewarding.
- Maintaining a calendar and steering processes to maximize key developments in local and global policy spaces, and listing milestones for annual advocacy events.
- Ideating, implementing, and driving advocacy campaigns and efforts.
- Facilitating cross-movement and intra-/inter-coalition dialogue.
- Organizing online and on-site events and campaigns.
Interested candidates must have:
- Excellent (oral and written) communication, facilitation, and organizing skills in the development sector.
- Proven track record of at least 5+ years in regional/global network management, partnership building or community building role. This could be experience with global campaigns and coalitions, anchoring advocacy actions, public interest litigation, and/or influencing policy agendas.
- Experience with managing people, resources, and action plans effectively even in asynchronous, semi-formal, and remote arrangements.
- Familiarity with using digital tools and social media effectively.
- Familiarity with global debates in various developmental areas, including geopolitical and geo-economic issues.
- Keen interest and experience in digital justice issues and policy.
- A Master’s degree in development, social sciences, media studies, or allied fields.
- Ability to work in short turnarounds, planning and executing campaigns, issuing press notes, and managing high pressure advocacy moments.
Desirable:
- Oral/written fluency in multiple languages.
- Experience with labor, trade justice, and/or feminist movements.
How to apply:
Interested candidates should apply to jobs-Advocacy-Associate[at]itforchange[dot]net with a resume, and a dossier of relevant materials from previous campaign experience. The subject line should be ‘Advocacy Associate’.
Remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Tech Policy Researcher
Location: Bengaluru /Delhi
IT for Change is looking to recruit policy researchers with a technical background for its research and policy advocacy. We are looking for a candidate with a robust understanding of technology governance debates, especially the design and development of inclusive and accountable data and AI systems that further social policy objectives.
The Tech Policy Researcher will play an active role in two tracks:
- Intelligent Infrastructures - Focusing on policy debates about platform, data, and AI governance in relation to emerging digital infrastructures underpinning the economy, society, and public administration.
- Alternative Platform Models - Focusing on design and policy directions – techno-institutional norms, principles, and pathways – for non-extractivist platform infrastructures.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Providing research support on tech-design and regulation of digital infrastructures for research reports, blogs, advocacy statements, and organizational interventions in policy spaces.
- Supporting the organization’s ongoing efforts with government agencies to develop innovative platform and data architectures for livelihood programs and social security schemes.
- Writing explainers, policy briefs, and media pieces demystifying topical data and AI policy developments for civil society constituencies.
- Assisting with organizing and executing policy events and attending/presenting at national and international advocacy events.
Interested candidates must have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline (including but not limited to Computer Science or Information Technology).
- A Master’s degree in social sciences, public policy, or law OR 2-3 years of experience working with public sector organizations in technology research or consulting roles.
- Excellent technical and academic writing skills, with a comfort in working in interdisciplinary teams and an eagerness to grapple with debates on the sociology and political economy of technology.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply to jobs-Policy-Researchers[at]itforchange[dot]net, with a CV and a writing sample/portfolio. The subject line should be ‘Tech-Policy Researcher’.
Designation and remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Policy Researcher - Digital Rights
Location: Bengaluru / Delhi, India
This track will focus on issues of freedom of expression, privacy, and traditional digital rights issues. Expertise in social media governance (with a focus on hate speech) and familiarity with the international human rights frameworks is desirable.
The ideal candidate will lead and support research on cutting-edge themes within the pertinent track, undertake socio-economic and legal analysis and engage actively in national and global policy processes.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Steering policy and legal research addressing social justice and equity with respect to the pertinent track.
- Inputting into and supporting policy consultations and other national and global advocacy opportunities in the domain to influence norms development.
- Assisting with organizing sessions and attending/presenting at national and international advocacy events.
- Developing written outputs from research initiatives, including reports, academic articles, media pieces and explainers.
- Supporting organizational grant development and collaboration and M&E activities of projects.
Interested candidates must have:
- A PhD/Masters' degree for the concerned track (including but not limited to, law, public policy, economics, critical media studies, feminist studies and other allied degrees).
- 3+ years of demonstrable research experience.
- Excellent technical and academic writing skills.
- Training and familiarity in research methodologies.
- A strong public policy orientation.
- Experience with managing people, resources and action plans effectively in asynchronous, global arrangements.
Desirable
- Oral/written fluency in Kannada/Hindi.
- Fluency in handling social media platforms for outreach and communications.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply to jobs-Policy-Researchers[at]itforchange[dot]net, with a CV and a writing sample/portfolio. The subject line should be 'Policy Researcher – Digital Rights'.
Designation and remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Technology Associate - Speech Recognition
Job Profile
We are looking for an experienced AI speech recognition specialist to join our education technology team. As part of the team, you will contribute your efforts towards building a free and open source AI-driven software application for language learning as a digital public good. As a member of a small team, you will wear many hats and your responsibilities will include, among others
- collaborating with the language educators in the team to refine use cases and flesh out feature details
- devising and implementing mechanisms for voice data collection at scale
- performing data cleansing and other preprocessing as necessary, selecting algorithms, training ML models and iteratively improving the process until satisfactory performance is achieved
- supporting the deployment of the model(s) within the public schooling system in India. This will include optimizing models for execution in resource-constrained offline environments such as classroom workstations and tablets that may not have internet connectivity.
- maintaining and improving the model(s)
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience designing and developing speech recognition based AI applications, possess foundational knowledge in speech processing and have hands-on expertise in automated speech recognition (ASR) technologies, learning algorithms and architectures.
Note that the project will not use any proprietary, commercial / closed source platforms. So you are discouraged from applying if your only expertise is in the use of proprietary, point-and-click model generation platforms.
Location: Bengaluru, India
IT for Change provides a challenging, dynamic work environment and excellent professional growth opportunities, and the successful candidate will be committed to working with us long-term.
While this position is for full-time permanent employment, prospective candidates from the corporate IT sector who can join us for two years or more as part of your employer's sabbatical program are also welcome to apply. Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and would not be a constraint for the right candidate.
Joining Date: We are looking to start as soon as possible.
How to apply:
Please e-mail your CV to jobs-senior-associate-tech@itforchange.net with the job title in the subject line.
Senior Web Developer (Drupal)
IT for Change’s technology team is looking for a senior web developer with solid work experience in Drupal 8/9 who can bring in architectural and technical design perspectives to web design, development and hosting. As a member of a small team, you will wear many hats and your responsibilities will include, among others:
- Creating Drupal 9 custom content types, views, blocks, search pages and developing complex custom migrations
- Assisting with Drupal theming, with prior experience in HTML5, CSS, Javascript, bootstrap
- Administering Linux based web servers, including Drupal/WordPress installation, module/plugin/theme installation, configuration and maintenance updates. Experience with a popular control panel software such as cPanel is desirable
- Setting up MySQL/MariaDB database(s) as required for website development
Experience with WordPress frontend development and any other LAMP stack applications is a plus.
The ideal candidate will also possess
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Keen attention to detail
- Clear and concise communication skills — both written and verbal
- Excellent time and project management skills, and
- Flexible attitude to learn popular Free and Open Source LAMP stack web applications and maintain them
Please do not apply if your experience is solely on Drupal 7.
Location: Bengaluru, India
IT for Change provides a challenging, dynamic work environment and excellent professional growth opportunities, and the successful candidate will be committed to working with us long-term. Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and would not be a constraint for the right candidate.
Joining Date: We are looking to start as soon as possible.
How to apply:
Please e-mail your CV to jobs-senior-associate-tech@itforchange.net with the job title in the subject line.