Impact Footprint Fellowship 2025 by PlanT

About the Organisation

At PlanT, we aim to make life during and post one’s education easier through an Experience-Based Teaching & Learning Model by encouraging discourse on various academic avenues, career options, co-curricular activities, and unconventional opportunities. We understand that information asymmetry and structural barriers inhibit the true potential of students and we wish to overcome this challenge by connecting students to experienced individuals who have been there and done that.

We aspire towards illuminating broader avenues of professional advancement and empowering future professionals and leaders to successfully pursue these avenues, and to achieve the same we must grow and Plan-Together. PlanT – LLB ̊ is an initiative by PlanT specifically catering to law students and legal professionals.

About the Fellowship

The Impact Footprint Fellowship is an initiative by PlanT – LLB ̊ to empower and enable law students to become changemakers and ignite in them a passion to work towards creating and amplifying the footprint of their social impact.

Fellowship Structure

• Duration and time commitment: 6 months, with a weekly time commitment of 8-10 hours
• Cross-functional experience: each fellow would work across the 3 main portfolios of the initiative to build cross-functional hands-on experience working with an impact-driven initiative. Each rotation would span 2 months and would be across (i) Outreach, Communications & Media; (ii) Content Curation & Strategic Partnerships and (iii) Operations & Project Design.
• Mentorship sessions: sessions would be held every 6 weeks, on topics chosen by a majority of the fellows, including the following:
  • Career Launchpad: Crafting a Winning CV and Acing Interviews 
  • Beyond the Classroom: Performing at extracurriculars (like moots and ADRs)
• Training sessions: sessions would be held every 6 weeks, on topics chosen by a majority of the fellows, including the following:
  • Introduction to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • Social Impact 101
  • Law and policy making for social impact: A stakeholder centric approach
• Mode of the Fellowship: the Fellowship would be conducted in the virtual mode.
• The Fellowship is voluntary, pro bono, and part-time.

Eligibility

• Is a self-starter who displays problem-solving skills, attention to detail and professionalism
• Strong organisational and collaborative skills to work seamlessly and productively with other fellows
• Currently pursuing a 3/ 5 year LLB degree.
• Recent graduates with an LLB degree (0-2 years PQE)
• Experience and comfort with working in virtual environments
• Proficiency and clarity in written and verbal communication
• Is driven and passionate about creating a social impact. 

How to Apply?

• Round 1: Interested candidates are requested to apply by simply dropping an email to us at [email protected] with their resume (PDF with a maximum of 3 pages), and an expression of interest (maximum of 500 words).
• Round 2: Shortlisted applicants from Round 1 will be invited for an audio-video interview to assess interest, commitment and fit.

Important dates

• Deadline – applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the last date to apply is July 13, 2025.
• Declaration of results: The results for the Fellowship will be announced latest by July 19, 2025.
• Commencement of the Fellowship: The Fellowship will commence latest by July 20, 2025

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across different cross-functional domains of an impact initiative 
• Upskilling and knowledge enhancement through training sessions to enhance their careers and personal growth.
• Get the opportunity to work in a social start-up environment 
• Get a chance to grow your network with like-minded and socially conscious individuals
• Certificate – on successful completion of the Fellowship a certificate will be issued.
• LOR – In case of exceptional fellows, a Letter of Recommendation will be provided.

Contact

If you have any queries, please feel free to write to us at [email protected].