The Bright Future Facilitator drives the capability-building programs and interventions at the assigned Youth Training and Development Center (YTDC). The purpose of this role is to work with the youths in the age group of 18 to 25 years (called aspirants) and build their capability in employability skills. Additionally, the role works with the parents to build their support towards the youth's decisions related to their education and career. This role thus helps Bright Future realize its vision by making aspirants more employable, parents more supportive, and building both their awareness and knowledge in life and industry skills
Responsibilities
- Youth Mobilization: Assist the Social Worker in the mobilization of youth to ensure minimum expected enrollments in YDTC.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Participate in the stakeholder engagement activities planned at the center (led by the Social Worker/Project Charge) to ensure the participation of stakeholders in programs.
- Lesson Planning and Facilitation for Employability and parents Sessions
- Conduct domain-wise assessments for the assigned batch to evaluate the level of the aspirants and support them accordingly
- Mock Interviews: Facilitate the Mock Interviews process to ensure that the aspirants are interview ready, once a month
- Coordination with the employer to schedule the interviews, Guest Lectures and placements, etc.
- Exposure Visits: Identify appropriate exposure opportunities for the aspirants from the list of recommended types of institutions and ensure that sure the visits are done successfully.
- Conduct Post-Training follow-up for aspirants (alumni) to understand their current status of employment and education
- Maintain documentation on the program to be input into the monitoring and evaluation system.
- Documentation and reports
Qualifications
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Any bachelor's degree is required. Qualification in Social Work or related fields is preferable
- Years of Experience: Min. 1 year of experience in facilitation / social work and the assigned functional domain is preferable REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE
- Child Rights and Protection laws and guidelines
- Healthy communication and conflict resolution methods / best practices
- About challenges faced by the youth of the nearby community and applicable solutions/ interventions
- Domain and market trends from a theoretical/secondary research perspective (Retail, Hospitality, Banking, Work Place Readiness, English and IT)
- About different learning methodologies
Required Skills
- Planning and facilitating training sessions
- Good Written and Oral Communication in English and Ability to communicate well in Hindi/Marathi
- Public Speaking skills
- Resource Mobilization
- Documentation
- Computer Skills (Email, MS Power Point, Excel and Word)
- Situation and Conflict Resolution (Assertiveness)
- Active Listening and Keen Observation
- Stakeholder Management
- Research skills (especially in the assigned domain)
- Influencing skills