MAD’s Fellowship is a unique country-wide programme aimed at empowering, nurturing and collectivizing Change Leaders, who are determined to bring about large-scale transformation in the world fueled by their passion, drive and vision.
It is a cohort of people who power hope in the world. This desire, for a better tomorrow, stems from wanting to step up and act on the social inequities and injustices around them. The fellows of 2024-2025 will take huge strides in bringing MAD closer to our vision while championing for the cause, picking up skills invaluable in the real world and immersing themselves in an experience of a lifetime!
Each Fellow in MAD is chosen after a lot of thought, care and effort. Through a rigorous selection process, we understand them better - their motivation, team working skills and understanding of the problem we strive to solve for. We believe that this group of capable and wonderful individuals will be an unstoppable force - The MAD Fellowship Cohort 2024!
The world today needs...
Someone who cares about the lives of people around them and takes up ownership to better it.
Someone who is ready to learn and grow everyday to be a better version of themselves.
Someone who is good at building and mobilizing communities towards social change.
Someone who iinspires and enables.
Someone brave enough to wear their heart on their sleeves.
Someone who always turns up!
That someone is a MAD Fellow!
The Fellowship Recruitment Evaluation Process is carefully curated and designed to be an experiential learning opportunity for all applicants. Here is what happened behind the scenes to select the 300 fellows of this year!
In MAD, we truly believe in the potential of every volunteer to become the change leader they aspire to be. The three day management challenge focuses on various aspects of oneself such as one's integrity with time, ability to self learn, capacity of team working as well as ownership towards leading and bringing about change. The challenge also provides a platform to self-assess one's skills as well as the support required to manage fellowship.
Fellows in MAD are needed to be experts of mobilising large scale volunteer teams to deliver all our interventions. Through actual simulations, the evaluators get to know the applicant's ability to deliver sessions, facilitate discussions, analyse situations and model action plans. The task helps in gauging the applicant's understanding of the organisation as well as their mobilisation skills, both of which are crucial across verticals.
Every vertical offers a different set of learning opportunities. In the vertical task round, applicants get to experience the functioning of the vertical through role plays, case studies and written tasks. This helps the evaluators in understanding the various perspectives, mindsets and skills that are required to be built for each applicant getting selected for the role.
The personal interview round is the final stage of recruitment and an exciting way to close out the evaluation! In this round, applicants get to interact with full time employees in MAD and have a mentoring conversation for their journey ahead in the social space. It’s a great opportunity to integrate all the insights gained through the entire process.
At the end of the day, the Fellowship programme for MAD is about taking a chance on yourself! And every fellow has a team of 300+ backing them up and believing in them every step of the way. That is what it is all about - a collective that Turns Up!
Every fellow will get to be a part of a nation wide collective of 300+ young leaders who are ready to do whatever it takes for the children and youth.
Every fellow will undergo a journey of self transformation and growth alongside a strong support system. Fellowship teaches you industry transferable skills like Project Management, Community Building and Management and Strategic Design!
Fellows get to experience self transformation while creating impact on an everyday basis in their roles. Every fellow strives to build a safe and brave space by embodying kindness, care and authenticity.
This opportunity allows fellows to not only cultivate belief in themselves but also the faith in changing the world with a community of like minded people.
