Programme Facilitator – LifeSkill360 Program

Dream A Dream; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Dream a Dream seeks a Programme Facilitator for the LifeSkill360 Program at Thriving Centre, K.R Puram, Bengaluru. The role centers on facilitating out-of-school learning experiences that empower youths (15–23) to thrive, using Dream a Dream’s arc of practices, processes and principles.

The facilitator will lead outreach, design workshops, train stakeholders, and ensure effective program delivery, monitoring, and reporting while collaborating with cross-functional teams and traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• Strong spoken communication and clear articulation skills.
• Fluency in Kannada and English.
• Willingness to travel for program delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead outreach and facilitation for LifeSKills360 Program and facilitate life skills for diverse young people.
• Assist with program activities and ensure smooth execution of organizational initiatives.
• Gather and report on impact metrics and outcomes from the program.
• Build and manage partnerships with organizations, leading to collaboration opportunities.
• Collaborate with operations and finance teams to meet program needs.
• Co-facilitate experiential learning spaces for young people, teachers, facilitators, school leaders and stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

Kannada & English fluency

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Programme Facilitator – LifeSkill360 Program

Job Description

About Dream a Dream

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, through curriculum and pedagogical innovations and through the development of holistic assessment frameworks while also shifting the narratives around the purpose of education. Dream a Dream’s work is spread across 7 Indian states reaching over 2.2 million children through strategic partnerships with state governments and collaborations with other non-profits and funders in India.

Role: Programme Facilitator – LifeSkill360 Program

Dept/Programme: Direct Impact -Thriving Centre

Hiring Manager: Shiva.K

Job Location: Thriving Centre- K.R Puram

Last date of application: 20 th October 2026-27

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

Thriving Centre Programme is an integral part of the Innovation lab, which comes under the focus area of Direct Impact. The Thriving Centre Programme is a demonstrable model of out-of-school learning spaces that develops designs, principles, and approaches aimed at building insights, geared towards thriving and redefining the purpose of education. This program works with young people aged 15 to 23 to facilitate thriving journeys for young people and community.

The Role of Program Facilitator: Facilitation is an integral part of Dream a Dream. It is believed that facilitation is a powerful and significant tool or a way to take everyone along, to make each being feel heard and seen. The role of a facilitator is centered around a facilitation approach to enable a thriving journey in by creating a safe space where community/young people can be resilient, responsible, and happy to reach their potential to reimagine a better future for themselves and society.

Key Responsibilities:

• Outreach & Facilitation: Lead outreach efforts for the LifeSKills360 Program and facilitate life skills for diverse young people.
• Program Support: Assist with program activities and ensure smooth execution of organizational initiatives.
• Impact Data Collection: Gather and report on impact metrics and outcomes from the
• Partnership Development: Build and manage partnerships with organizations, leading to collaboration opportunities.
• Cross-Department Coordination: Collaborate with operations and finance teams to meet program needs.

Roles and Responsibilities: – Facilitation

• Co-facilitate experiential learning spaces for young people, teachers, facilitators, school leaders and stakeholders.
• Balance voice and presence between facilitators
• Create participatory, inclusive and reflective learning environments
• Be able to manage broken
• Be able to interrupt a speaker without put-
• Use arts, play, storytelling, movement and experiential
• Debrief conversations for
• Meet the learning needs of the (Creative edges – Comfort zone, learning zone, danger zone).
• Support youth camps, workshops, training and learning

Design

• Contribute ideas and observations to strengthen workshop
• Support contextualisation of activities based on participant
• Assist in developing facilitation plans and learning
• Participate in debriefs, reviews and redesign
• Co-design a minimum of 8-day workshops using the Arc of
• Integrate the 3 P’s (Practices, Processes and Principles) of Dream a Dream’s approach in all workshop/session designs
• Document the plan, along with the context for which it was

Training

• Train facilitators / stakeholders on 6-levels of validation, using reinforcements to change behaviour and formulation. (Reference: Dream a Dream Mentoring Program),
• Train other facilitators / stakeholders on the Principles / Practices / Processes of facilitation with a minimum of 3-day TOT workshop.
• Train facilitators / stakeholders on the facilitation approach through conducting Dream a Dream youth camps.

Programme Implementation, Operation, Monitoring and Reporting

• Basic technical skills such as basic computer skills and
• Flexibility to travel is necessary. There will be opportunities to travel and facilitate according to the need of the program and place – Locally, Interstate, Nationally and Internationally
• Proficient in platforms like Microsoft Office& Internets basic computer
• Strong spoken Communication and articulations skills Fluency in Kannada & English
• Strong experience in data & program documents managements
• Flexible with work timings and ability to work with Virtual Platform

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.