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 recognized by Lego Foundation and Ashoka as a Champion in the space of Re-Imagining Learning in the world – https://staging.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: Full Stack Developer 

No. of Positions: 1  

Type: Consultant (12 Months)  

Location: Hybrid / (Bangalore) 

Honorarium: (7 – 8 LPA) 

Our Needs  

We are looking for passionate and motivated Full Stack engineers who will build dynamic, end-to-end, and innovative software products and applications for Dream a Dream.

Position Summary  

A technology expert, with the primary responsibility of creating and implementing innovative solutions and making technical contributions. Dream of a Dream is committed to empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and thrive in a fast-changing world and we recognise the importance of integrating technology into the education system for the betterment of every child a thriving life.  

To advance our ongoing efforts, the technology expert will  

• Develop a technology strategy to guide project initiatives. 
• Nurture expertise and promote innovation within project endeavours.  
• Collaborate with development teams and product managers to brainstorm software solutions.  
• Engage with databases, servers, APIs, version control systems, and third-party applications. 
• Recognise and execute improvement plans to enhance the scalability, performance, reliability, and security of the application. 
• This position offers a compelling chance to incorporate accessible and affordable technology into the daily learning experiences of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.  

Core Responsibilities: 

• Provide a technology-oriented perspective to assess new product development concepts across Dream a Dream, collaborating closely with other teams. 
• Act as a fundamental member of Dream a Dream’s technology division, creating user-friendly student dashboards, and introducing novel features for Innovation labs.
• Lead discussions on architecture and feature development, integrating a technology perspective, and contributing to aligning the product roadmap for a long-term vision with core leadership. 
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to comprehend project requirements, prioritize tasks, and oversee project timelines.
• Offer thought leadership and identify opportunities for enhancing quality. 

Requirements: 

• We are seeking skilled software developers proficient in both Frontend (Angular JS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and Backend (Python Django, AWS, Java), ideally with prior engagement with data analytics platforms.  
• Possess a minimum of 2 years of hands-on software experience, demonstrating the ability to solve intricate problems through technology, encompassing best practices, internal workings, patterns, and refactoring.  
• Showcased proficiency with a minimum of three project experiences involving independent code design, unit testing, and integration-level testing of modules.  
• Bring at least 2 years of backend work experience, including the establishment of the entire application database, covering structure, optimization, and tuning.  
• Exhibit 1-2 years of expertise in working with JavaScript frameworks, specifically AngularJS 
• Demonstrate 1-2 years of experience with backend design using Django (Python) and Java frameworks.  
• Display a minimum of 1 project experience in server management, encompassing AWS and website hosting (knowledge of WordPress is advantageous).  
• Proven experience in developing and documenting DevOps and Architecture frameworks. 
• Competence in handling basic security updates and patch management for the entire application and related infrastructure.

Apply if you have: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, management information systems, or equivalent work experience. 
• 2+ years of experience in delivering integrated services and Front ends, using NodeJS and React/AngularJS 
• Experience with Node.js and Express ecosystem, building tools, libraries, runtimes, and frameworks. 
• Experience within Java scripts and/or AngularJS, HTML5, jQuery, AJAX, and CSS equivalent would be a plus. 
• Hands-on exposure and understanding of AWS services like CloudFormation, IAM, Compute Services (EC2, Lambda), Step Functions, API Gateway and SNS would be a plus. 
• Experience working in Scrum – agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, and source management. 
• Experience in data analytics tools Tableau/Power BI would be a plus. 
• Experience with mobile app development would be a plus point.

To apply for this position, please send your updated CV to research@dreamadream.org and include a cover letter detailing your qualifications and interest in the role. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate the time and effort that all applicants have dedicated to their submissions.  

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.

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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 6 Indian states reaching over 2.2 million children through strategic partnerships with state governments and collaborations with other non-profits and funders in India.

https://staging.dreamadream.org/the-urgency/item/215-dream-a-dream-a-champion-of-learning-through-play 

ROLE: State Lead – Systems Demonstration  

LOCATION: Delhi 

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1 

REPORTING MANAGER: Associate Director – Systems Demonstration – North Hub 

SALARY: Rs. 11,00,000 to Rs. 12,00,000 CTC per annum. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITY 

The primary responsibility includes – Collaboratively execute the partnerships function to build urgency and criticality on the importance of Thriving in the ecosystem. Through developing strategic partnerships and leading the advocacy efforts of the organisation, build a movement to equip millions of young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and thrive in the 21st century. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

1. Liaise with government officials and other stakeholders for adopting Thriving as purpose of education.  
2. Support in achieving in organisational goal. Establishing strategic partnership with the state education system for demonstrating system on Thriving as purpose of education.  
3. Implementation of strategic direction of the function. Develop strong professional nexus with policymakers, administrators and executors for discovering, dreaming, designing and delivery of curriculum focusing on thriving, specifically Life Skills, Socio-Emotional Learning and Value education
4. Manage all ongoing activities of Happiness curriculum, Delhi. Also, regularly hunting for innovations focusing Life Skills activities, components of SEL and values to be incorporated in Happiness curriculum after prior approval from concerned officials.  
5. Liaison and exploration of opportunities for advocating facilitation skills of teachers through trainings. 
6. To liaise with Department of Education, Government of Delhi for contextualization of Life Skills curriculum of Dream a Dream so that it could reach to maximum number of children. 
7. Manage a large team and complex function. Providing direction and support to the team members within the function.  
8. Coordinate with and support the external stakeholders (NGOs, research agencies and Government) to build a life skills focused approach in their work. 
9. Provide support to the internal teams in research and M&E work as well as to build an ecosystem premised on life skills approach.
10. Managing and maintaining database on key policy and advocacy issues related to different vertical of education, child and youth development, Life Skills, SEL and Thriving. 

Skills 

1. Should have experience and skills for the function. 
2. Should have considerable knowledge and possess proven technical skills. 
3. Strong managerial experience in terms of independently managing the function.  
4. Leadership and mentoring skills.  
5. Prior engagement with young people and experience in education, Life skills or Socio – Emotional Learning is highly recommended. 
6. Experience in leading teams, liaisoning with government officials and project management is desirable. 
7. Strong spoken and written communication and articulation skills. Fluency in English and Hindi is must. Knowledge of other Indian language in reference to geography of work is appreciable.  
8. Ability to travel to different parts of country (towns and villages) at a short notice, in
   post Covid era.  
9. Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills, ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data, craft possible solutions and recommend actions. 
10. Intermediate knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. 

General Responsibilities 

1. Contribute to achievement of strategic goals set by the organization 
2. Participate in strategic planning, annual planning and budgeting process for the organization 
3. Develop strategies to keep team members engaged in outreach efforts 
4. Being a small team, you would also be required to multi-task between roles given by your reporting manager, as and when required by the organisation for the furtherance of its goals 
5. Accountability of achieving the goal of the functions. 

EXPERIENCE

• More than 8 years of experience of working in development sector, majorly in Education. Hand on Life Skills & Socio-Emotional Learning will be preferred.
• Prior experience of working with Government will be an added advantage.

HOW TO APPLY  

Please email to  pankaj@dreamadream.org with the job title ‘Program Lead – Systems Demonstration Delhi’ in the subject line along with the following documents attached:  

1. Cover letter 
2. 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. 

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