Job Opportunity for Training and Design Manager (South hub) at Dream a Dream Foundation in Bengaluru

About Dream a Dream 

Started in 1999, Dream A Dream is a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young people from vulnerable backgrounds. We do this by shifting mindsets in the educational ecosystem about the purpose of education to thrive in a fast-changing world. We strive for a work culture that is a microcosm of the world we want for our young people – a world that is built around the tenets of equity, inclusion, and dignity. 

Role: Training and Design Manager (South hub) 

Dept/Programme: Programme Design and Development 

Hiring Manager: Punith 

Job Location: Bengaluru 

Salary:  INR 80,000/- Per Month Gross 

Role Objective/Purpose (Include overall objectives of the role, the need for the position): 

The Programme Design and Development team designs interventions to shift mindsets in a way that engages with the inherent complexity of the education ecosystem and frames the right problems to address. The scope of such programmatic interventions can be broadly classified under three domains – Curriculum, Capacity-building, and Technology. Our targeted stakeholders start from employees of Dream A Dream and extend out to government officials, school principals, teachers, students and also include other organisations in the ecosystem. 

As a training and design manager, you will be responsible for mentoring, coaching and educating our in-house facilitators and key employees. You will be designing, planning, organising, executing and facilitating process-based trainings for our employees, officials from education boards of states, principals and teachers involved in the projects in which Dream A Dream is engaged. The geographical scope of your engagements will include Dream A Dream’s ongoing projects in Karnataka and Telangana and any other future engagements in India’s southern states and union territories. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

You will be accountable for the quality of Dream A Dream’s training programmes. Your responsibilities would include: 

• Performing project-specific need analysis through field visits and discussions with school staff, education board, community, and parents. 
• Collaboratively designing trainings. 
• Collaborating with the content team for developing programme-specific content and curriculum. 
• Organising, planning, and executing training programmes. 
• Enabling the facilitators with the skills and knowledge required for delivering training programmes. 
• Orienting facilitators of training programmes with goals, objectives, and targeted outcomes of training programmes. 
• Reporting monthly, half-yearly, annual, and project-specific training data. 
• Continuous improvement of programmes using feedback collected from various stakeholders. 
• Mentoring our team of facilitators. 

Requirements (Skills, Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge) 

Required Professional Experience 

5+ years of experience in:  

• Process-based workshop design and delivery 
• Mentoring and engaging with teams 

Required Knowledge 

• Exposure to various SEL and life skills framework  
• Customisations required for various modes of training delivery – In-person, online, Self-learning, facilitator-led and hybrid. 

Required Skillset 

• Design thinking skills to frame problems 
• Process-based facilitation. 
• Planning and organisation. 
• Collaborative teamwork. 
• Self-awareness. 
• Conflict management. 
• Mentoring skills. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite of Applications – Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook 

Required Mindsets 

• Ensure Dignity – Ensure every person we interact with feels heard and seen. 
• Understand Equity – Acknowledge that each person could be at different milestones on their journey towards realising their fullest potential as existing systemic structures allow. 
• Value Inclusion – Understand that diverse perspectives contribute to the depth and quality of our work and, hence, ensure that no one feels excluded. 
• Value the impact on the lives of the students is the ultimate scale for quality of work  
• Patience and readiness to engage with complex and ambiguous project requirements. 
• Value collaboration over creating individual impact at work 
• Willingness to travel to and stay in remote and rural areas 
• Focus on quality of process over outcomes 

Required Language Proficiency 

The candidate must be able to read, comprehend, write, and speak in English and Hindi. Fluency in any south Indian language is an added advantage. 

Other Desirable traits 

• Arts-based facilitation skills 
• Theatre-based facilitation skills 
• Integrative movement facilitation skills 
• Knowledge of the workings of education boards in India 
• Graphic Design experience 

How to Apply:  

Please email to careers@dreamadream.org with the job title in the subject line along with the following documents attached: 

• Cover letter 
• 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.