Catalysetech Fellowship – Communication and Documentation Fellow
SELCO Foundation Sustainable energy practitioners have long noticed energy access affects rural and urban populations’ livelihood, generation capacity, education attendance, health outcomes and overall quality of life. In response, SELCO India (for profit, social enterprise) created SELCO Foundation on 5th October, 2010 as a public charitable trust, with the mission to:
1. Systematically identify diverse needs of underserved communities, understand and define the role of sustainability and energy in these communities.
2. Create and support innovative and sustainable solutions that positively impact well-being, education and livelihoods and work towards the alleviation of poverty.
3. Foster ecosystem development in the social sector through holistic thought processes in technology, finance, entrepreneurship and policy.
SELCO Foundation envisions a socially sustainable society: we seek to create avenues for asset building, enhancement in quality of life and wealth creation that will uplift deprived sections of society through sustainable development solutions. It uses soft funding and flexible capital to develop robust and field-proven technological and financial models in the field of energy and sustainability. It aims to generate public awareness about these models, while also building the ecosystem for the creation and delivery of such solutions. The foundation supports replication and utilization of these models in other deprived regions of India and the world, thereby achieving greater leverage on resources.
Communication and Documentation Fellow
We’re looking for a communication and documentation fellow for our program, CatalyseTech. It’s an initiative by SELCO Foundation that aims to bring the end users’ voices at the forefront and serve as a catalyst for inclusive technology innovation. We document problem
cases, hold challenges & workshops and offer incubation support to grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs.
This role will also require working with different verticals at SELCO Foundation—Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Resilient Micro businesses and New Design Technologies(NDT) making it a great cross-cutting learning experience.
Anybody interested in understanding the grassroots innovation ecosystem will truly find this to be an enriching opportunity.
Joining Date : To start immediately
Branch : Bangalore
Selected candidate will be helping us out with:
- Documenting & articulating problem cases by visiting different sites. You should be good with interviewing people sensitively and getting valuable insights in short visits.
- We will provide orientation and support throughout. Please refer here for some of the documented problem cases
- Writing engagingly in multiple formats (social media, documentation, blogs and even ppts)
- Brainstorming ideas to make engaging communication on some very serious issues faced by the last mile users
- Writing social media posts and building campaigns
A lot of impactful communication happens visually, if you can communicate visually, it will be
an added bonus.
Skills Required:
● Good interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
● Good primary and secondary research skills,
● Can communicate complex and nuanced matter to audience through effective communication
- You will be required to be in office physically and should be okay to travel within India.
- People engaging for 6 months will be preferred.
- Stipend is available.
Interested candidates please apply at outreach@selcofoundation.org
