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Dream a Dream
About Dream a Dream
Dream a Dream is an Indian non-profit organisation working to transform the experience of education
for the 130+ million children living in poverty in India. Our aim is to change the purpose of education
towards the idea of Thriving for every child. Since 1999, Dream a Dream has mainstreamed life skills
as a critical approach to help children overcome adversity and learn to thrive. Today, the organisation
is transforming the Indian education ecosystem through its own programmes, through curriculum and
pedagogical innovations and through the development of holistic assessment frameworks while also
shifting the narratives around the purpose of education. Dream a Dream’s work is spread across 6
Indian states reaching over 2.2 million children through strategic partnerships with state governments
and collaborations with other non-profits and funders in India.
Role: Program Coordinator – LifeSkill360 Program
Dept/Programme: Direct Impact -Thriving Centre
Hiring Manager: Vijay Kumar. M
Job Location: Thriving Centre- K.R.Puram,
Salary: Rs. 39000 Per Month
Last date of application: 10-07-2025
Role Objective/Purpose (Include overall objectives of the role, the need for the position):
Thriving Centre Programme is an integral part of the Innovation lab, which comes under the focus area
of Direct Impact. The Thriving Centre Programme is a demonstrable model of out-of-school learning
spaces that develops designs, principles, and approaches aimed at building insights, geared towards
thriving and redefining the purpose of education. This program works with young people aged 15 to
23 to facilitate thriving journeys for young people and community.
The Role of Facilitator: Facilitation is an integral part of Dream a Dream. It is believed that facilitation
is a powerful and significant tool or a way to take everyone along, to make each being feel heard and
seen. The role of a facilitator is centered around a facilitation approach to enable a thriving journey in
by creating a safe space where community/young people can be resilient, responsible, and happy to
reach their potential to reimagine a better future for themselves and society.
Key Responsibilities:
• Outreach & Facilitation: Lead outreach efforts for the LifeSKills360 Program and facilitate life skills
for young people.
• Program Support: Assist with program activities and ensure smooth execution of organizational
initiatives.
• Impact Data Collection: Gather and report on impact metrics and outcomes from the program.
• Partnership Development: Build and manage partnerships with organizations, leading to
collaboration opportunities..
• Cross-Department Coordination: Collaborate with operations and finance teams to meet
program needs.
• Organizational Policy development: Uphold Dream a Dream’s values of equity, inclusion, and
dignity, and ensure compliance with organisational policies (People’s Philosophy, Safeguarding,
POSH, etc.).
Roles and Responsibilities: –
Facilitation
• Facilitating workshops and sessions in an engaging format
• Foundational facilitation skills: energisers, warm up, exercises, warm up, mindfulness, and other
innovative techniques that suits the needs of the group.
• Using arts, play, and technology as a medium to facilitate interventions, like theatre, drawing,
songs, music, football, and other engaging activities.
• Practice Strength-based facilitation.
• Execute structured sessions based on the standard curriculum.
• Able to establish their credibility as a facilitator.
• Able to articulate real stories e.g.: personal stories, young people stories etc. to engage the group.
• Engage body, mind, and emotions in facilitation.
• Provide clear and concise instructions.
• Understand and work with group dynamics.
• Practice Validation during delivery (Listening, Reflection, Wheel of experience, Normalise In –
terms of Past and Present and Honest response)
• Ability to give and receive feedback in; connect-disconnect-connect style.
Design
• Able to design a minimum of 2-day workshops using the Arc of Transformation.
• Able to design activities using the IEOM (Intention, Essential, Obstacles and Magic) Principles.
Training
• Train other facilitators / stakeholders on the impact of adversity on child development (Reference:
Dream a Dream Mentoring Program).
• Train facilitators / stakeholders on basics of 3 P’s. e.g.: Strength-based facilitation, IPC, giving and
receiving feedback, Wise Why’s etc.
Programme Implementation, Operation, Monitoring and Reporting
• Basic technical skills such as basic computer skills and documentation.
• Flexibility to travel is necessary. There will be opportunities to travel and facilitate according
to the need of the program and place – Locally, Interstate, Nationally and Internationally
• Proficient in platforms like Microsoft Office& Internets basic computer Knowledge.
• Strong spoken Communication and articulations skills Fluency in Kannada & English
• Strong experience in data & program documents managements skills.
• Flexible with work timings and ability to work with Virtual Platform
How to Apply:
To apply, please send an updated CV along with a cover letter to vijay@dreamadream.org Please
mention ‘Application for the position of Program Coordinator – LifeSkill360 Program in the subject
line of your email. Only short-listed candidates shall be notified by us.
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
