Program Officers at Educate!

Job description

Educate! is seeking enthusiastic and self-driven Program Officers to be part of our inaugural Program Team in Kenya! Program Officers will be at the center of our operations, empowering youth mentors to become leading entrepreneurs; recruiting schools and supporting highly motivated teachers to apply skills-based education in their classrooms; and capturing, processing and integrating data from the field to directly inform our program design. This role involves supporting volunteer mentors in delivering our leadership and entrepreneurship curriculum while also providing capacity-building and coaching opportunities for them as they grow their businesses. Program Officers will have the opportunity to support innovative and engaged teachers through a community of practice and learning around skills-based education. Your experience in the field will make you a valued asset in developing our program through the collection and analysis of data.

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 and the partner schools.
• Coordinate scheduling of lessons and organize regional events.
• Manage relationship with the respective County Education stakeholders.
• Lead communities of practice and learning around skills-based education with teachers (20%)
• Train and Support teachers to teach the Community Service Learning in partner schools.
• Support teachers and school administration in partner schools in the areas of school leadership, business and mentorship.
• Lead Teacher Association trainings and meetings.
• 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 .
• Must be a TSC registered teacher.
• 1-2 years’ experience as a trainer, mentor, or teacher in Kenyan schools or NGOs (preferred)
• Engaging and interactive trainer with passion for coaching team members.
• Must have completed Youth Entrepreneurship Training(YET) with Educate!
• 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 medical insurance.
• This position will be based in Kenya, with travel in different counties.

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.