Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship Programme 2021 by Delhi Government [Amount Upto Rs. 1.25 L] | Last Date of Application 9th August

Applications are invited for CMULF- Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship Programme 2021 by Delhi Government. The final date of application is 9 August 2021.

About the Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship Programme 2021

The Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship is a unique alternative for younger leaders throughout India to work with the Delhi Government to address some of the most pressing city challenges and experience what ‘making change’ looks like. The extremely competitive Fellowship goals to recruit excellent younger professionals from throughout the nation under the age of 35 who’re passionate about public service and are willing to decide to work with the Delhi Government for an interval of two years.

The Fellowship programme will be final for two years and can consist of the following components:

Induction: Selected fellows will undergo a structured induction programme over the primary three weeks, consisting of two phases;

1. Training (1 week): Fellows will be skilled in authorities processes and functioning, efficient communication, management and conflict resolution, project ownership, working with communities, monitoring and evaluation and so on. through lectures and interactive sessions with senior officers/ministers of the Delhi government, and subject matter consultants from academia and civil society.
2. Field immersion (2 weeks): Fellows will spend targeted time on the field experiencing the day-to-day functioning of the departments they’ve been assigned to and forming their very own impressions of the field-level challenges, and possible options. They will prepare a coverage note summarizing their evaluation of the challenges, and recommendations.

Fellowship Assignment

Each Fellow will be assigned to one of the departments of the Delhi authorities at the time of appointment. After they join, they’ll obtain details on their Fellowship Assignment which will embody the key initiative(s) throughout the department that they will be contributing to, and particular details on roles and duties. Allocation of fellowship assignments will depend on both the needs of departments of GNCTD and the abilities and work expertise that each of the Fellows delivers.

Typical project assignments would require Fellows to contribute using quite a lot of roles over 1-2 years such as due diligence and background preparation to launch a bold reform, mission administration to fast-track implementation of precedence tasks, offering ground-up suggestions to ministers/secretaries on the progress of key programmes, strengthen concurrent monitoring & evaluation in key programmes and so on.

While every Fellow will obtain a particular project at first of the Fellowship programme, it’s anticipated that they can even contribute to different ongoing activities and initiatives of the division, as needed. Though most Fellowship Assignments are anticipated to final two years, some Fellows could also be assigned to a different division or project after the first year based mostly on project needs.

Performance Management

The Fellows will be on probation for the primary three months, and only after successful completion of activities within the probation period, the Fellows will likely be allowed to proceed with the full size of the Fellowship programme, else the fellowship will likely be terminated and the Fellow will obtain an Internship certificate from GNCTD.

All Fellows will work immediately underneath the supervision of Senior officers (Secretary/Director degree) or Advisors or Ministers to GNCTD, who can even present common guidance and mentorship on the Fellowship Assignment. In addition, high-level evaluations of every Fellowship Assignment will likely be taken by the Hon’ble Chief Minister/Deputy Chief Minister every three months.

An annual efficiency appraisal will be carried out at the end of the primary year of the Fellowship programme and provided that the efficiency is satisfactory, the Fellows will be requested to proceed into the second year of the Programme.

Deliverables

Based on the actions assigned by their supervisors, the Fellows will be required to provide several outputs (project notes, reports, presentations and so on.) through the Fellowship programme. The fellows can even be required to make common presentations to involved stakeholders and update them on the department-specific tasks.

Learning Opportunities

The Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship programme is structured to offer a unique set of learning opportunities to Fellows such as:

• An alternative to interact on a variety of city and social insurance policies are training, public health, transportation, urban poverty alleviation and slum rehabilitation, surroundings sustainability, air pollution control, and native public service delivery.
• Key analytical and managerial abilities by engaged on tasks associated with the formulation and implementation of tasks and initiatives within the growth, infrastructure and technology sector.
• Exposure to and understanding of the assorted stakeholders concerned within the governance process. Compensation: Remuneration of ₹1,25,000 monthly will be supplied to Fellows and ₹75,000 per month will be supplied to Associate Fellows.

Eligibility

The Chief Minister’s Urban Leadership Fellows programme invites applications for excellent young leaders who’re Indian citizens or holding OCI standing and between 21-35 years of age.

Eligibility Criteria for Fellows (either one of the following should apply)

• Post-Graduate with minimal 60% of marks (or equal CGPA) with minimal 3 years full-time work expertise. Professionals such as MBBS, LLB and so on. with a minimal 5-year course of research after 12th class will be considered as “Post-Graduate”
• Professionals like Chartered Accountants, Architects, Company Secretaries and so on. who’s registered with their respective skilled bodies shall be eligible to apply for Fellows if they’ve minimum of 3 years of post-registration work experience
• Post- Graduate with minimum 60% of marks (or equal CGPA) with minimal 5 years full-time work expertise.

Eligibility Criteria for Associate Fellows (either one of the following should apply)

• Post-Graduate with minimal 60% of marks (or equal CGPA). Professionals such as MBBS, LLB and so on. with a minimal 5-year course of research after 12th class will be considered as “Post- Graduate”.`
• Graduate with minimal 60% of marks (or equal CGPA) with minimal one-year full-time work expertise
• Professionals like Chartered Accountants, Architects, Company Secretaries and so on. who’s registered with their respective skilled bodies shall be eligible to apply for Associate Fellows if they’ve minimal one year of post-registration work expertise

Desired Criteria

Extra weightage will be given to candidates with:

• Superior academic performance and achievement
• Greater full-time work expertise
• Relevant work expertise in public service and growth sector, especially governments
• Demonstration of excellent achievements and leadership potential
• Good oral and written communication abilities

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