Program Officer at Educate!

Performance Objectives

Empower youth mentors to become leading entrepreneurs (40%):

• Lead the selection of top-graduate mentors; maintain strong relationships with them and match mentors to schools.
• Train volunteer mentors to use a mentoring approach in delivering our world class leadership and entrepreneurship curriculum.
• Build mentors’ entrepreneurship and leadership skills through regular group meetings, one-on-one meetings, holiday trainings, and connections to local partnerships.
• Coach mentors as they develop and grow their existing businesses and community projects.

Develop fruitful school relationships to implement the Educate! Experience (20%)

• Recruit and maintain relationships with partner schools in each region of assignment.
• Manage relationships with potential partner schools.
• Coordinate scheduling of lessons and organize regional events.

Lead communities of practice and learning around skills-based education with teachers (20%)

• Support teachers and school administration in partner schools in the areas of school leadership, business and mentorship.  
• Lead Teacher Association trainings and meetings.
• Submit timely and accurate data from the field.
• Ensure weekly high-quality program reporting from mentors.  
• Participate and support the Learning and M&E staff in conducting Educate! experiments and evaluations in the field.   

Capture timely and accurate data to develop lessons learned for the program (10%)

• Submit timely and accurate data from the field.
• Ensure weekly high-quality program reporting from mentors.  
• Participate and support the Learning and M&E staff in conducting Educate! experiments and evaluations in the field.   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a related field
• 1-3 years’ experience as a trainer, mentor, or teacher in Kenyan schools or NGOs (preferred)
• Engaging and interactive trainer with passion for coaching team members
• Event management skills: the ability to keep track of multiple activities, plan, and mobilize resources in a timely and efficient manner.
• Strong organizational, writing and communication skills
• A proactive, energetic approach to problem solving
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here
• Willingness and ability to travel to all parts of Kenya.

Terms

• Compensation will be competitive for the social enterprise sector and commensurate with experience.
• Benefits include a generous vacation policy and medical insurance.
• This position will be based in Kenya, but you will be required to spend one month in Uganda in January/February to train for the role.

Preferred application deadline is December 15th. After that we will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis, with the goal of filling the position ASAP.

Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!

• We’ve got the impact.
• Educate! is designed for scale. We quadrupled operations in 2014, going from 54 to more than 200 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and — here’s the best part — we are maintaining quality at four times the size.
• We believe in local leadership — 96% of our staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting many thousands more students than we can reach directly.
• Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.