Program Associate

Dream A Dream; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Dream a Dream in Bengaluru seeks a Program Associate to coordinate the Dream Mentoring Program, connecting mentors with youths and supporting personal, educational, and career growth. The role blends programme management, stakeholder engagement, and data handling to bridge implementation and the Dream Mentoring App.

You will collaborate with schools, volunteers and partners, ensure safeguarding and quality delivery, and help scale the mentoring model while documenting outcomes and learning for

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in youth development, mentoring, education, or community programmes.
• Strong programme coordination, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with digital platforms or programme management systems is desirable.
• Strong documentation and data management abilities.
• Fluency in Kannada and English.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end implementation of the Dream Mentoring Program.
• Identify, onboard, and support mentors and mentees.
• Facilitate mentor orientations, reflection sessions, and engagement activities.
• Build partnerships with schools, colleges, volunteers, and community organisations.
• Ensure safeguarding, equity, and quality programme delivery.

Skills

Programme coordination

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Data management

Kannada fluency

English fluency

Job description

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, curriculum and pedagogical innovations, and the development
of holistic assessment frameworks while also shifting the narratives around the purpose of
education. Dream a Dream’s work is spread across seven Indian states, reaching over 2.2
million children through strategic partnerships with state governments and collaborations
with other non-profits and funders in India.

Position Details

Role: Program Associate - Dream Mentoring Program

Dept/Programme: Direct Impact Program

Hiring Manager: Vijay Kumar

Job Location: Bangalore

Salary: Rs. 55,000 Per Month

Last date of application: 20th August 2026

Role Objective

The Program Associate will coordinate and strengthen the Dream Mentoring Program by connecting young people with mentors, ensuring meaningful mentoring experiences, and supporting young people’s personal, educational, and career aspirations. The role combines programme management, stakeholder engagement, data management, and technology-enabled programme delivery, serving as the bridge between programme implementation and the Dream Mentoring App.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Management

• Coordinate end-to-end implementation of the Dream Mentoring Program.
• Identify, onboard, and support mentors and mentees.
• Facilitate mentor orientations, reflection sessions, and engagement activities.
• Build partnerships with schools, colleges, volunteers, and community organisations.
• Ensure safeguarding, equity, and quality programme delivery.

Monitoring & Reporting

• Maintain mentor and mentee databases.
• Track programme progress, mentoring outcomes, and engagement.
• Prepare programme reports, impact stories, donor reports, and documentation.
• Use programme data to support learning and decision-making.

Technology & Digital Systems

• Manage the Dream Mentoring App and ensure accurate programme data.
• Coordinate with the Technology Team to improve platform features and workflows.
• Support user onboarding, mentor-mentee matching, reporting dashboards, and troubleshooting.
• Develop SOPs, user guides, and conduct knowledge transfer sessions to ensure longterm sustainability of the platform.

Learning & Quality

• Capture programme insights and feedback from mentors and young people.
• Recommend improvements to strengthen the mentoring model and programme quality.

Qualifications & Skills

• 1-3 years of experience in youth development, mentoring, education, or community programmes.
• Strong programme coordination, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with digital platforms or programme management systems is desirable.
• Strong documentation, reporting, and data management skills.
• Fluency in Kannada and English.

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 ma