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Associate Manager – Systems Demonstration

About Dream a Dream 

Dream a Dream is a registered, charitable trust empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in the 21st century using a creative life skills approach. We work with 10,000 young people a year through our two innovation labs – After School Life Skills Programme and Career Connect Programme; we have trained over 6,728 teachers/educators from 191 partners impacting over 1,68,200 children and young people, engage over 1.2 million young people through a state government partnership and have scaled our work across India and Kenya through our unique Life Skills Development model. We work on a strong collaborative approach with local charities, corporates, volunteers, governments, expert consultants and a host of national and international strategic partners. Dream a Dream is considered to be a pioneer in the Life Skills space in India and recently recognized by Lego Foundation and Ashoka as a Champion in the space of Re-Imagining Learning in the world – https://dreamadream.org/the-urgency/item/215-dream-a-dream-a-champion-of-learning-through-play 

ROLE: Associate Manager – Systems Demonstration  

LOCATIONS: Delhi 

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1 

REPORTING MANAGER: Delhi State Head – Systems Demonstration 

SALARY: Based on experience and industry standard 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

The primary responsibility includes – Collaboratively execute the partnerships function to build urgency and criticality on the importance of life skills in the ecosystem. Through developing strategic partnerships and leading the advocacy efforts of the organisation, build a movement to equip millions of young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and thrive in the 21st century. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

1. Deliver workshops and sessions for relevant stakeholders through online and offline
   media. 

1. Work with the Happiness Curriculum team to create tools for need analysis, classroom observations, data collections. 

1. Documentation of observations and other meetings in School Visit, Research and others related to project.  

1. Coordinate with the internal teams to create different types of Life Skill and SEL based content. 

1. Participate in learning and debrief sessions, to enhance the quality of delivery of the
   Dream A Dream’s workshops. 

1. Understand impact assessment of the workshops and improve the quality of training. 

1. Coordinate with and support the external stakeholders (NGOs, research agencies and Government) to build a life skills focused approach in their work. 

1. Interact with government officials and other government stakeholders. 

1. Provide support to the internal teams in research and M&E work as well as to build an
   ecosystem premised on life skills approach. 

1. Contribute to achievement of strategic and operational goals set by the organisation. 

Skills 

1. Prior engagement with young people and experience in education, skills or training facilitation space is highly recommended. 

1. Experience in facilitation, data collection, observation and project management. 

1. Field level understanding and exposure of government interaction along with managing Government projects. 

1. Strong spoken and written communication and articulation skills. Fluency in English and Hindi
   and other Indian languages is a must. 

1. Ability to travel to different parts of country (towns and villages) at a short notice, in
   post Covid era.  

1. Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills, ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data, craft possible solutions and recommend actions. 

1. Strong desire for excellence and consistent drive to improve and learn.   

1. Intermediate knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. 

1. Sustained passion and commitment to bring a positive change in the society.  

1. Full of positivity and optimism and doesn’t get bogged down by challenges.  

1. Deep sense of empathy and compassion for the people. 

General Responsibilities 

1. Contribute to achievement of strategic goals set by the organization 

1. Participate in strategic planning, annual planning and budgeting process for the organisation 

1. Develop strategies to keep team members engaged in outreach efforts 

1. Being a small team, you would also be required to multi-task between roles given by your  reporting manager, as and when required by the organisation for the furtherance of its goals 

EXPERIENCE 

• 4 years of working in schools and experience of working in the Education sector, preferably Socio-Emotional Learning and Life Skills.  
• Prior experience of field work in government schools is preferable.  

HOW TO APPLY:  

Please email to manorma@dreamadream.org and cc to pawan.k@dreamadream.org with the job title ‘Associate Manager – Systems Demonstration HC’ in the subject line along with the following documents attached:  

1. Cover letter 
2. Resume 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  

Dream a Dream is committed to upholding diversity and inclusion in our workplace and we strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups, within the organisation and outside, to apply to open positions. We embrace our employees’ differences of religion or belief, caste, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, family or marital status, physical, mental and development abilities, social or economic class, education, work and behavioural styles, political affiliation, and other characteristics that make us unique.