The Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Rule of Law Programme South East Europe is calling for applications for the 11th edition of the leadership programme for young lawyers in Romania - Leaders for Justice.
The programme is open to young lawyers between 22 and 35 years of age in the first 5 years of their professional career, master's students and law students in their final year of study. Twenty young lawyers with leadership potential will be selected.
Leaders for Justice focuses on developing leadership skills and knowledge, a better understanding of the legal profession (through interaction with participants and graduates of the programme) and the justice system as a whole (through meetings with professionals in the field), as well as identifying solutions to problems in the justice system and in Romanian society as a whole.
Your application must include a CV, a one-page cover letter and a maximum two-page essay in which you present, at your choice, a change for the justice system, for your profession or for your institution. Identify a specific problem (something that bothers you deeply), come up with concrete (long-term sustainable) solutions that reflect the change and describe how you bring your contribution, how the system/institution/profession should look like after the change is implemented.
Papers should be written in Romanian, font size 11 and 1.5 line spacing.
Send your application to office.rspsoe@kas.de by 20 October 2019, 23:59. Each candidate will receive a confirmation of application, via email, within 48 hours after the deadline. In the absence of this confirmation, please contact us.
The selection process will consist of 2 stages: pre-selection of written applications (21 October - 1 November 2019) and interviews with short-listed candidates (11 - 15 November 2019).
Communication of the final result: by 6 December 2019.
Both (pre)selected and rejected candidates will be notified by e-mail.
To keep up to date with the latest news, log on to our website www.kas.de/leadership, our official Facebook page www.facebook.com/LeadersforJustice or our Youtube channel LeadersforJustice.
We look forward to your application!
What does Leaders for Justice 2020 entail?
1. Six training sessions and a meeting with the alumni of the Leaders for Justice community, all dedicated to developing leadership skills:
_16-19 January 2020 Session 1 - Vision and Creativity. Shared Mission and Values / Vision and Creativity. Common Mission, Common Values
_13-16 February 2020 Session 2 - How to work in a team and lead a team. The Story of Me vs. Us / Team Leading and Team Work. The Tale of I Do vs. We Do
_12-15 March 2020 Session 3 - Communication Skills and Personal Branding / Communication Skills and Personal Branding
_2-5 April 2020 Session 4 - Decision Making and Change Management. The Art of Sound Choices
_7-10 May 2020 Session 5 - Project Management. Tools that make a difference / Project Management. The "HowTo" that will Make the Difference
_12-14 June 2020 Session 6 - What else you need to know to become a good leader & Leaders for Justice Community Annual Meeting
Each session starts on Thursday at 15:00 and ends on Sunday at 13:00, and a full day programme includes training modules from 09:00-13:00 and 15:00-19:00. The locations and dates of the training sessions will be sent to selected candidates in December. All costs of the programme (accommodation, meals, coffee breaks, training materials, etc.), with the exception of transport within the country, are covered by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Rule of Law Programme South East Europe.
2.Study visit to Berlin (to be confirmed; September/October 2020): for one week, participants will get in touch with the German justice system through meetings with decision-makers, visits to relevant institutions and participation in court hearings (civil and criminal). Among the institutions included in the programme so far, there have been the German Bundestag, the Land Court, the Land Constitutional Court, the Attorney General's Office, the Romanian Embassy in Berlin or the German Magistrates' Association. An interpreter will be present throughout the study visit and all costs related to the visit will be covered by the organisers.
3. Implementation of group projects: during the training sessions, participants will develop project ideas addressing key issues in the justice system or in Romanian society as a whole. The structure of the programme, through the sequence of the themes of the 6 training sessions, guides the participants in using the skills learned and facilitates the use of the tools acquired to achieve the practical purpose of the group projects. I
4.Meetings with decision-makers and professionals with an outstanding track record in the field of justice: each training session includes a 3-4 hour module in which participants openly discuss a topical justice issue with one or more guests. Participants will also have access to all monthly meetings of the alumni community
5. Leaders for Justice Alumni Community: selected candidates will be able to get involved in the activities of the alumni community of 190 young people from all legal professions (judges, lawyers, prosecutors, legal advisors, police officers, mediators, university assistants, lawyers in NGOs or private companies, prison education officers, notaries public, masters or PhD students, etc.). Within the alumni community, members implement and actively participate in group projects that address key issues in the justice system or in Romanian society in general, organize social gatherings or open discussions with professionals, participate together in various cultural or sports events.
6. LiderJust Association: participants have the opportunity to join and actively contribute to the activities of the LiderJust Association, a non-governmental organization set up by the graduates of the programme in order to facilitate and promote the implementation of projects initiated by the members of the "Leaders for Justice" community. More details on the association's website at www.liderjust.ro.
Short description
The main goal of the programme is to build a community of motivated young people who embrace the values of the rule of law and professional integrity as fundamental benchmarks in their work and who are prepared to promote these values among their peers in the field.
The objectives of this programme are to develop talented young lawyers and develop essential leadership skills, to equip them with substantive information on the principles of democracy and the rule of law and, not least, the principles of professional ethics. Selected young people will implement individual and group projects to gain a practical understanding of what it means to be a true leader.
The target group of this programme is young lawyers who are either in the first 5 years of their professional career, master in law or final year students and who have the potential to become leaders. The selected participants will come from all over Romania and from all legal fields. Twenty young people motivated to take an active role in the evolution of the legal and socio-political system in Romania will be selected.
The activities included in this project are aimed at three major components: 1) learning various leadership and teamwork skills, 2) gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of the justice system and 3) interacting with personalities from the justice system and society.
The long-term outcome of this leadership programme is the creation of a national network of young legal professionals eager to develop their leadership skills, but also their capacities and ways of action so that they become real agents of change.