Youth Business Leader at Educate!

Job description
Educate! is seeking enthusiastic and self-driven Youth Business Leader to be part of our inaugural Program Team in Kenya!The Youth Leader will be at the center of implementing strategies that ensure our impact is reached across a community unit in Kenya.

Position Overview

The right person for this opportunity is passionate about our mission of creating leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa, excited about working with youth, has an entrepreneurial spirit, and is committed to being part of a high performing team!

• Performance Objectives
• Administrative Support (35%)
• Responsible for providing logistical support for events, meetings, training, and induction in the Community Unit.
  Responsible for keeping the contact list for graduates in the Community Unit up to date.
• Mentor Fellow Recruitment (15%)
• Run selection of mentors during an annual 5 day short course training and keep a steady pipeline of potential backup mentors.
• Ensure the CU is well resourced with mentors and graduates all the time.
• Program Monitoring and Business Advisory to mentors and Scholar. (20%)
• Support the School Coordinator with coaching mentor fellows in the areas of student participation, school business clubs and group mentoring. Conduct on-sight visits to monitor fellow business or community initiatives. Follow up with graduates in community unit who had questions about community unit activities and programs.
• Data management (30%):
• Monitor and record attendance during the lessons, club activities and other program related activities using Survey CTO.
• Terms
• Compensation will be competitive for the social enterprise sector and commensurate with experience.
• Benefits include medical insurance.

This position will be based in Kenya, with travel in different counties.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in social sciences.
• Fresh graduate (and) who has been with Educate! as a mentor for a period of time.
• Proven ability to train, coach & advise young mentors
• Exemplifies Educate! Culture—only solves a problem once, always learning, flexible & open minded, giving youth experience drives everything you do, exceeds expectations in your work
• 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.

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.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with the goal to fill these positions ASAP.