Facilitator (Career Awareness)

Description

This role drives the career awareness & mentoring initiative of Bright Future called ‘Step to Livelihood - Buniyaad’. The purpose of this role is to work with the youths in the age group of 14 to 25 years (called as aspirants) and build their awareness of career . The Facilitator will be leading administration, scoring and interpretation of Bright Future’s.

Responsibilities

• Conduct workshops and sessions on designing a career path & provide 1:1 counseling.
• Discussing career-related aspirations, concerns, and uncertainties throughout the consultation process.
• Assist the Social Worker in mobilization of youth for the ‘Step to Livelihood - Buniyaad’ programme.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Participate in the stakeholder engagement activities planned at the center (led by Social Worker/Project In-charge) to ensure participation of stakeholders in programme.
• Lesson Planning and Facilitation for career readiness sessions which are a part of the ‘Step to Livelihood - Buniyaad’ programme.
• Conducting career interest tests, analyzing the scores and preparing career interest test reports.
• Maintain documentation on the program to be inputs into the monitoring and evaluation system.

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Social Science, Education, Social Work, or a similar field can lead to a Post-Graduate Diploma or equivalent course in Counselling/Mental Health/Career.
• Master's degree in Counselling/Mental Health/Career Counselling.

Years of Experience:

• Minimum 1 year of experience in career counseling with facilitation experience as well as on field exposure.

Required Knowledge

• Child Rights and Protection laws and guidelines.
• Healthy communication and conflict resolution methods / best practices.
• About challenges faced by youth of the nearby community and applicable solutions/ interventions.
• Familiarity with job opportunities in market and updated with changing trends.
• Working knowledge of counseling models, methods, and resource.

Required Skills

• Planning and facilitating training sessions.
• Good Written and Oral Communication in English and Ability to communicate well in Hindi/Marathi.
• Excellent listening and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in using platforms such as Google classroom, Microsoft office (PowerPoint, excel and word).
• Situation and Conflict Resolution (Assertiveness).
• Active Listening and Keen Observation.
• Research skills (especially in the assigned domain)

Bright Future strives to have a workforce which reflects gender balance hence would encourage female candidates to apply for this role.