DFF Peer Group Member (Remote)

Digital Freedom Fund; Berlin; Remote; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Jobbeschreibung

DFF is undertaking a pilot of participatory decision-making for our grantmaking. We are seeking expressions of interest from people who would like to be part of the “peer group” (Peer Group) that will review grant applications in this pilot and decide where our funding should go.

The call for expressions of interest is open from 8 October - 27 October 2024.

Please submit a copy of your CV and write 1-2 paragraphs about why you are applying and what value you think you would bring to the Peer Group.

In the pilot, we are not changing everything. Of our two grant types, the process for approving our litigation support track grant, which currently makes up about 80% of our funding, will continue in the same way for now. The pilot will only affect our pre-litigation grant type, which currently uses about 20% of our funding.

The main change to the process will be at the review and recommendation stages. In the pilot, instead of the Panel of Experts we have been using since 2018, a community peer group (Peer Group) will review the applications then come together in an online meeting to collectively decide which applications they recommend be supported – in summary, taking away decision-making power from the DFF grants team.

The initial Peer Group will be a mix of people and could include some from our current Panel of Experts, current and former grantees or applicants, and others from our wider network and beyond. Not all members of the group need to have litigation expertise. A key goal is to have a diverse group of people with the knowledge to speak to the range of intersecting issues that come up in our applications, and the experiences to look at applications from the perspective of those communities that are most harmed by digital rights violations. We also want the Peer Group to be representative of the different regions within the Council of Europe.

Due to the time and responsibility involved, all members of the Peer Group will be compensated. As with our current Panel of Experts, all members of the Peer Group will sign a confidentiality policy and conflict of interest policy.

The pilot will run as part of our next regular call for applications. The call for applications will be open from December 2024 until February 2025. The review stage involving the Peer Group will run from March to May 2025, with decisions announced around June 2025.