The Jijivisha Fellowship 2023-24 – Slam Out Loud
Deadline for the application 20th March 2023
Slam Out Loud uses performance and visual arts to enable children from disadvantaged communities to find their voice through creative expression. We work with professional artists and e-learning resources to help children build the creative confidence needed for them to dream bigger and create their future.
By providing access to space for art based learning that is traditionally inaccessible to individuals in at-risk communities, we build in them 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity, fostering leadership that can drive universal change. The diverse group of children, youth and artists that we work with in these communities discover their voices through the transformational power of the arts enabling them to become creative thinkers who dream bigger, achieve more and create the future.
The Jijivisha Fellowship is a full-time, year-long, paid fellowship programme run by Slam Out Loud. Fellows are placed as a socio-emotional learning (SEL) facilitator in low-income private schools in India. The Fellows inculcate Creative Confidence skills in children, a combination of Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) and 21st century skills by leveraging art forms such as poetry, visual art, storytelling, and theatre.
The Fellowship, which was running in Delhi and Pune so far, will now expand to Mumbai and Bangalore in 2023, giving us the opportunity to impact 10,500+ children from disadvantaged communities in underserved schools.
Fellows will be in classrooms, Mondays through Saturdays, facilitating grades 5 to 8 with 40 students in each class. Along with creating lesson plans, interacting with teachers and school administration, Fellows will also be engaging with parents and the larger community, enabling them with SEL-based tools, leading sharing circles, and best practices circles for better outcomes for children.
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Jijivisha Fellow
In an academic year, a fellow facilitates arts-based SEL lessons across 6 classrooms every week (Monday to Saturday, 1 class per day based on the schedule co-created with the school), between grades 5 and 8. You will be teaching a class of 40 students each day. The time commitment per week is 45 hours. Apart from lessons, fellows will also work closely with parents and help them build
better relationships with their children.
In addition, fellows will facilitate well-being circles and ‘best practices’ sharing circles with their school’s teachers to help them with SEL practices in their respective classrooms.
Eligibility
Minimum Qualification: You must have completed all coursework requiredfor your undergraduate degree (bachelor’s degree equivalent) from an accredited college or university by 15 June 2023. We will review your degree transcripts (graduate/postgraduate certificates) before making an admission decision.
- Nationality: You should either be an Indian citizen or a foreign national of Indian origin. Foreign citizens who are not of Indian origin are not eligible to apply.
- Essential: Exposure to any one art form (e.g. visual arts, performance, fine arts, poetry)
- Language fluency: You should be fluent in English along with a regional language for the city that you are applying for (e.g. English and Marathi if you are applying to be a fellow in Mumbai).
- Age limit: You’ll need to be 18 years of age to apply for the fellowship. There’s no upper age limit to apply.
- Bank account and PAN Card: You must have a bank account in your number and a PAN card as this is a full-time, paid, work opportunity.
Stipend: The fellow will be provided a stipend of INR 28,000 per month along with reimbursement of INR 2,000 for travel / commute during training, attending events, buying stationery for classrooms, and other related expenditure.
