Policy Design and Learning Specialist Job at Educate 2024

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About Policy Design and Learning Specialist Job at Educate 2024

Educate!, the largest youth skills service provider in East Africa is looking for a highly strategic and energized Policy Design and Learning Specialist, ideally with a background in education and drive to support educational reform while ensuring our programs create a lasting impact on students and youth.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in educational program design, advocacy, teacher training, communication and presentation, capacity building of government officials and education reforms. 

Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined.

At Educate! we’re obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent.

Educate! prepares youth in Africa learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by:

1) introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and

2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.

To date, more than 250,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

Educate! is a team of over 250 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth-oriented work environment. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations and 6 current or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows.

We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Big Bang Philanthropy, #startsmall, Generation Unlimited, CIFF and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE’s Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work.

Educate!’s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. By 2025, we aim to scale our annual reach by 4x and measurably impact over 400,000 new youth.

MODE OF APPLICATION:

All Applicants are advised to follow all guidelines through the given Application Link with all job details >>https://boards.greenhouse.io/educate/jobs/6087957?gh_src=40a10ea31us

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

• Applications should reach the above on or before July 2024.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.