Applications are invited for the Mozilla Senior Fellowship 2024. The last date for registration is April 17, 3:00 PM, and the complete application deadline is May 6, 2024, 3:00 PM.
About Mozilla
In the early 2000s, the Mozilla community built Firefox. We toppled the browser monopoly, gave users choice and control online, and helped create a healthier internet. Twenty years later, Mozilla continues to fight for a healthy internet — one where Big Tech is held accountable and individual users have real agency online.
About Mozilla Senior Fellowship
Mozilla’s Senior Fellowship program provides time, resources, tools, community, and amplification to those building a more human-centred digital environment. During their tenure, Fellows can use their skills — whether in technology, policy, research, or movement building — to lay the groundwork or build upon existing initiatives for a more open and inclusive internet.
In past cohorts, senior fellows’ independent projects have included research on the design, deployment, impact, and regulation of AI systems; participation in policy and legislative design processes at the national and regional level; publication of analysis and white papers; and non-partisan advocacy campaigns. Applicants are encouraged to be innovative in designing projects that demonstrate compelling narrative(s) about realising trustworthy AI.
2024 Mozilla Senior Fellows Details
- Mozilla is recruiting a cohort of up to 10 Senior Fellows who will work to make trustworthy AI a reality. They seek experienced practitioners, technologists, researchers, policy experts, and activists from around the world who work at the intersection of technology and society and are passionate about change.
- Senior Fellows are invited to use the fellowship as a platform to carry out an independent project that is important to them and their communities and advances work around the areas of focus defined below.
- For this fellowship, we are interested in applications from these key geographies: East and Southern Africa, Europe, Brazil, India and the United States.
- They also welcome applications from outside these geographies, particularly those working on issues in Asia Pacific, Latin America, South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), and representation from indigenous and displaced communities.
Mozilla is looking for projects aligned to our broad vision and demonstrate significant influence in the Trustworthy AI ecosystem and an ethical, responsible and inclusive internet environment. Preference will also be given to projects that intersect with a clear social justice area, involving communities historically excluded in the use and/or processes to design, deploy and regulate tech.
These may be projects related to human rights, economic justice, racial justice, community justice, gender justice, disability justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental and climate justice, or another issue that centres people’s lived experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Application and proposed projects should demonstrate the following:
- Experience + Impact
- a deep understanding of and commitment to public interest technology
- deep experience working at the intersection of AI and other movement areas (e.g. community justice, racial justice, climate justice, human rights, economic justice, or other social justice movements)
- a tightly defined independent project proposal that includes a clear focus, timeline, and impact related to the focus area selected and shows a deep understanding of what it means to inspire change at a systemic level
- demonstrate significant experience or expertise in the area of focus for the project proposed
- Collaboration + Communication
- strong reach in their communities, and a network of partners and collaborators
- experience working in interdisciplinary, collective, and/or intersectional ways to make progress toward a shared goal
- the ability to work on diverse and geographically distributed teams and across cultures
- the ability to communicate complex issues to a broad audience
- experience in public speaking and presenting publicly and in conference settings
- ability to pair subject matter expertise and research with execution in order to launch programs and related work products
- Leadership + Initiative
- the ability to work in a self-directed manner to achieve agreed goals and outcomes
- an intersectional approach that recognises different identities and realities acknowledges the way those are interconnected and how power impacts those interactions or power relates to those interconnections
- a facilitative leadership style and demonstrated skills in community building
- experience working virtually with a high level of autonomy
- Commitment to Open
- knowledge and examples of open documentation and collaborative approach to research/project build
- a demonstrated commitment to approaches that advance the open web
- In addition to the criteria above, candidates for the Senior Fellowship will:
- Be able to begin the Fellowship in September 2024 if selected.
- Have working fluency in English.
Selection Process
- Fellows will be selected based on a review of fellowship applications and interviews with short-listed candidates. Those involved in selection may include a combination of Mozilla staff, fellowship alumni, and other experts in the field.
- Reviewers will seek to fund people and projects that are aligned with the focus area of this call and meet the criteria outlined above.
How to Apply?
The application for a Mozilla Fellowship is in two process:
- Registration: To begin the application process, please complete the Mozilla Fellows Registration form by 3 PM GMT on 17 April. Within two business days of submitting your registration form, you will receive an email from @fluxx.io with instructions on how to set your password on Mozilla’s Fluxx portal.
- The answers you provide on your registration form will become part of your full application, which reviewers will assess. For this reason, please provide accurate and complete responses to the questions on the registration form.
- Full application: To complete the full application, log in to your account on Mozilla Fluxx. A full application form will be available in the “Drafts” section of the portal. Once you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email within two business days.
- If you have not received a confirmation email within two business days, please email grants[at]mozillafoundation[dot]org. The full application deadline is 3 PM GMT on 6 May.
Your application must include a Resume/CV and one professional reference who can speak to your work. Please note that a letter of recommendation is not required as part of your application.
Applications will be reviewed by a restricted panel of reviewers made up of Mozilla staff, organizational partners, and other experts in the disciplines of the application. Select applicants will be invited to participate in an interview panel as part of the review process.
Stipend
Mozilla Senior Fellows will receive a stipend of Rs. 8346000 / $100,000 USD/year (full-time equivalent). Compensation is adjusted for part-time fellowships.
Important Dates
- Registration Deadline — 17 April 2024
- Full Application Deadline — 06 May 2024
- Notification of Results — August 2024
Contact Details
- Questions about the Senior Fellowship? Contact fellowships[at]mozillafoundation[dor]org
- Need technical assistance using Fluxx? Contact grants[at]mozillafoundation[at]org. (Technical support is available Monday–Friday from 9am-5pm EDT)
Important Links
- View this Fluxx 101 Guide
- Watch the Information Session recording here and view the slides here.
Deadline
The last date for registration is April 17, 3:00 PM, and the complete application deadline is May 6, 2024, 3:00 PM.
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