Job Opportunity For Lead Facilitator – Systems Demonstration (Telangana) At Dream a Dream

Key Responsibilities  :

• As a Lead Facilitator your primary responsibility will be to work with young people, adults, teachers, and the government system. You will play a vital role in facilitating trainings, workshops, and camps for young people to empower and inspire.  
• To design spaces for the leadership teams to be able to redefine their purpose towards education.
• Facilitating collaborations 
• Execute aspects of Dream a Dream’s strategy as it pertains to its partnership with the Government of Telangana. 
• Create designs for the workshops and contextualise sessions on social-emotional learning for all stakeholders within the education systems 
• Deliver workshops and sessions for relevant stakeholders through online and offline media. 
• Participate in learning and debrief sessions, to enhance the quality of delivery of the Dream a Dream’s workshops 
• Understand impact assessment of the workshops and improve the quality of training  
• Coordinate with the internal teams to create different types of SEL and life skills content. 
• Conduct regular field visits. Interact with teachers and other stakeholders to assess and understand how training is translated into execution of various curriculums.
• Facilitation (Facilitate, Design and Trainings) 
• Improvise contents of the workshop in the moment and be aware of the plan / curriculum being only a guiding document   
• Ability to design activities and workshops (using the Facilitation Principles. ) 
• Develop curriculums for young people to meet the needs of the context.  
• Train other facilitators / stakeholders on the Principles / Practices / Processes of facilitation with a minimum of 10-day TOT workshop. 
• Provide one-on-one mentoring on principles of facilitations.  
• Technical skills required for the role. 
• Hold space for the group and individuals to express themselves deeply.  
• Invite individual and group creativity.  
• Managing Strong Emotions in a group (Manage Triggers)
• Develop the culture of appreciation. Prior engagement with young people, teachers and experience in education with strong training-facilitation skills in Education space is highly recommended. 
• Ability to travel to different parts of Telangana and India at a short notice 
   

Qualifications & Competencies: 

• Strong alignment with the organization’s values of equity, dignity, and inclusion 
• Proven experience in advocacy, partnerships, and networking 
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders. 
• In-depth understanding of the education sector and related policy issues 
• Exceptional collaboration, reflection, and communication skills, particularly in managing complex communication. 
• Strong facilitation and movement-building abilities 
• Proven ability to work effectively in a multicultural and global digital environment, with a demonstrated sensitivity to different cultures. 
• Strong understanding of systems thinking and the ability to apply it in practice. 
• Fluent in Telugu and English.
• Fluent in Hindi is an additional advantage. 
  Note: Being a small team, you would also be required to multi task between roles as and when required by the organisation for the furtherance of its goal.

How to Apply: 

Send your CV to [email protected] , and CC  [email protected] , with subject line as ‘Consultant- Lead Facilitator’ 

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 behavioral styles, political affiliation, and other characteristics that make us unique