Position: Associate Manager/Manager – Government School Interventions
Type: Full time
Location: Kohima, Nagaland, with travel to other states if required
Reporting to: Associate Director, East Hub
About Dream a Dream
Started in 1999, Dream a Dream is a registered, charitable trust empowering young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in a fast-changing world using a creative Life skills approach. Currently, Dream a Dream runs an Innovation Lab engaging 10,000 young people every year referred from 40 partners, has trained over 6,728 teachers/educators from 191 partners impacting over 1,68,200 children and young people, engaging over 800,000 young people through state government partnerships and have scaled our work across India and Kenya through our unique Life Skills Development model. Dream a Dream is considered to be a pioneer in the Life Skills space in India and recently recognised 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
At Dream a Dream, we believe it is critical to empower young people with Life Skills to overcome these gaps in the education system. Dream a Dream has scaled its Life Skills Model to provide teachers and youth workers, the skills and tools necessary to develop Life skills in young people from vulnerable backgrounds and integrate this within their work domain.
Position summary
Today, we have become a leader in the life skills space, recognised by others as a thought leader, with a nuanced understanding of adversity and life skills, a powerful and unique facilitative approach for adults around the child and strategic partnerships for scale. However, we have realised that this is not enough, and we can do more. This recognition is leading us to the next evolution in our journey – moving from equipping children with life skills to promoting thriving as the purpose of education.
The primary responsibility entails development of content to enable and support various stakeholders (such as school teachers, government officials, educators – SCERT/DIET/ NGO professionals, trainers, etc.) in promoting life skills and social emotional learning for the holistic development of young people and children in schools in Nagaland.
What are we looking for
What will you work on
What are the desired qualifications, skills and abilities
Salary Per Annum: – Competitive and other benefits
How to Apply:
To apply, please send your Cover Letter and CV to [email protected], mark a cc to [email protected] with a subject line as ‘Associate Manager/Manager –Kohima
Last Date: October 15th, 2022
CV without cover letter will not be considered for this position. 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 organization 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”.