Job Opportunity for Manager – PMU, Strategic Partnerships at Dream a Dream Foundation in Bengaluru

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 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: Manager – PMU, Strategic Partnerships  

Location: Delhi 

Position- 4 

Reporting Manager: State Head – Delhi, Strategic Partnership 

Salary per Annum: based on experience and industry standard 

Job Responsibility 

The primary responsibility includes – Manage and Lead the partnership with State government to build urgency and criticality on the importance of life skills and social emotional learning in the ecosystem. Through developing strategic partnerships and leading the advocacy efforts of the organization, build a movement to equip millions of young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and thrive in the 21st century. 

Roles and responsibilities (include scope, accountability, goals to be achieved by the role, people management): 

• S/he/them will be responsible for building, managing, and supporting and operating a PMU (Project Management Unit) for government projects.  
• Develop and manage relationships with key senior government officials, influencers and policy makers at the State level engaged in the project.  
• Anchor in the areas of Curriculum Development, Training, Monitoring & Evaluation, social media, Research & Impact Evaluation, Project Reporting, and outreach.   
• Visualize and strategize on the expansion of the projects on larger scale.  
• Contextualize and create a digital module for the content of Social and Emotional learning (SEL) based Curriculum on the requirements.  
• Develop strategies to ensure participation of Dream a Dream in key initiatives involving policy changes to include life skills and social emotional learning into educational reforms.   
• Collect and maintain up-to-date data on key policy and advocacy issues related to education, child and youth development, Life Skills, and social emotional learning.  
• Pay close attention to advocacy priorities and their fulfillment. Regularly review priorities and update or modify them based on changing community needs as identified by board, staff, and community members. 
• Build relationships with different national and international organizations to advocate the idea of SEL based curriculum.  
• Risk management of projects: Lead the development and maintenance of risk management plans of all key advocacy projects. 
• Work closely on education reforms and manage all logistical support to the team for roll-out, managing and planning of it. 
• Work on building strong Monitoring & evaluation tool and strongly contribute in the outreach of the project on various national and international platforms.  
• Any other work assigned by reporting manager.  

General Responsibilities  

• Develop linkages with national, international, and local media actors and with policy institutions 
• Contribute to achievement of strategic goals set by the organization 
• Participate in strategic planning, annual planning, and budgeting process for the organization 
• Develop strategies to keep team members engaged in outreach efforts 
• Work with a small team, you would also be required to multitask between roles, as and when required by the organization for the furtherance of its goals  

Requirements (include Education, Required Skills/Qualifications/attributes; Experience/acquired knowledge requirements, Preferred Skills (if any):  

• Sustained passion and commitment to bring a positive change in the society.  
• Full of positivity and optimism and does not get bogged down by challenges.  
• Deep sense of empathy and compassion for the people.  
• Work experience with managerial responsibilities, demonstrating superb project delivery and team leadership 
• Logical and rational thinking supported by strong analytical skills.  
• Project management skills with a lot of accuracy and attention to detail.  
• Ardent desire for excellence and consistent drive to improve and learn.  
• Proficiency in written and oral communication skills in Hindi and English.  
• Intermediate knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.  
• Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills, ability to analyze complex qualitative and quantitative data, craft workable solutions and recommend actions. 
• Advocacy, Research and Facilitation skills  

Experience 

• At least 7 years of experience in the Development/Education/Governance sector.  
• Having a prior experience in project management is essential.   

How to Apply:  

To apply, please send an updated CV along with a cover letter to vithya@dreamadream.org and cc it to avichal.p@dreamadream.org and tania@dreamadream.org , please mention Application for the position of ‘Manager, PMU – Strategic Partnerships’ in the subject line of your email. 

Dream a Dream is committed to upholding diversity and inclusivity at our workplace and we strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.  

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.