Youth Leader – Jinja

Position Overview

Educate! an award winning non-profit social enterprise is looking for a self-driven, highly enterprising and enthusiastic candidate to fill the Youth Leader _ Jinja in Uganda. The successful candidate will join our high performing Educate! Field Operations Team.

Educate! prides in creating impact and spreading this impact to thousands of more youth across the Country. The Youth Leaders will be at the heart of supporting the mobilisation of ambitious youths, recruit and support a team of mentors that will be delivering the skills-based course & mentorship to the youths, support in Monitoring, Evaluation & database; and field logistics management.

The right candidate for this opportunity should be excited about working with young and ambitious youth, self-driven, passionate about our mission of creating leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa, and committed to being part of a high performing team!

What Is Educate! About? 

We’re ambitious. Are you? Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey to their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.

1. We put Youth First, Impact-Obsessed – We never forget that Educate! exists to impact youth. We are purpose-driven. We obsess over impact daily and if it doesn’t lead to impact, we want nothing to do with it. We prioritize interacting with and listening to youth. We design and manage the organization to ensure every dollar creates transformative experiences that youth value.
2. We Exceed Expectations – We take pride in going above and beyond to achieve the best results. When we know what needs to be done, we do it. We don’t wait to be asked and we don’t stop at what is asked of us. We look for solutions as much as we identify problems.
3. We Are Always Learning – We are committed to seeking and applying new knowledge and ideas. We stay open-minded. We know there is always another way and we are excited to learn about it. We continuously look for resources of all kinds from multiple disciplines. We try new things, experiment, grow, and improve. We invest in learning for ourselves and our teams.
4. We are One Team, Many Views – We say what we think while treating each other well. We believe that all people have the same inherent value and that diverse ideas and open dialogue fuel excellence. We constantly strive to create an environment where everyone can and does express themselves freely. We support and respect each other as people and colleagues.
5. We have the Startup Mindset – We will always keep innovating to grow our impact. We aspire to be game-changing. We never think “we have arrived” or “we’re done.” We question the status quo in our industry. We move fast and embrace change to move towards our long-term vision. We’re not afraid of failure. We interrogate anything that slows us down.

Every person at Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve our mission and why we work as well as we do.

Educate is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community.  In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds, and life experiences to join our diverse team.

Performance Objectives

Youth Leader – Educate! Field Operations – 1 Position

Mentor recruitment (10%)

• Use mentor recruitment strategy to inform candidates for recruitment as per the mentor role profile.
• Source for motivated mentor candidates & hold interviews.
• Timely Submission of mentor required paperwork.
• Keep CU to capacity including backup options at hand.
• Manage mentor exit smoothly while observing mentor exit strategy as stipulated in the mentor and Youth leader handbook.
• Keep Mentor Recruitment Officer & Field Operation Coordinator team updated on community unit dynamics that best suit recruitment needs.
• Ensure that mentors are introduced & taken through their work standards during the orientation.
• Keep track of the mentor recruitment paperwork & have them uploaded on the google drive as guided by the management.

 Data Quality Checks (Audits 30 %)

• Model & maintain high data management integrity when handling data requests in-person & virtually especially from face to face & virtual program monitoring forms.
• Collaborate with M&E during & after the Exp 4.0 implementation on any data collection efforts.
• Monitor/ observe at least each mentor once every program cycle & submit observation forms.
• Review mentor Activity tracker photo from each mentor once a week & during peer circle meeting.
• Support mentors in meeting monitoring targets by running weekly check in & driving mentor targets.
• Responsible for scholar list reporting & mentor recruitment procedures.

Data Collection & reporting (20%)

• Coordinate all survey activities in the Cu & ensure accuracy & timely execution of reporting.
• Lead student focus groups to check on Exp quality implementation in the Cu
• Collaborate with the PO to support focus groups discussions when & as required.
• Ensure quality implementation of the program through rigorous monitoring & providing quality program feedback
• Support M&E in the dissemination & collection of the scholar centricity forms
• Work with M&E to provide feedback on any data collection tools & also to improve on the data collection processes.
• Setting timeliness & ensuring that mentors adhere to the reporting submission timelines.
• Train mentors on the importance & usage of the data collection tool in the Cu
• Compiling updated mentor list in their community unit.
• All data is collected in real time and work on all data mentors are missing
• Run weekly mentor check in on scholar drops while reconciling with monitoring systems.
• Ensure that mentors have updated graduation data.
• Support mentors on offline reporting & tracking of scholar data.

Monitoring EXP 4.0 Sessions (40%)

• Plan & observe mentors group mentoring & Skills lab & business model assessment.
• Provide mentors with feedback on managing sessions, conference calls especially during best practice Wednesday & also observe remote work standards.
• Provide feedback to the mentors directly depending on the quality of the SLs & VGMs sessions delivered and share this feedback with the Exp team.
• Inform the mentor performance tracker based on the submission of the mentor in class session observations/monitoring report and data collection
• Collaborate with Po to inform training gaps on sessions delivery

Qualifications 

• Diploma in Education, with at least 1 year of teaching experience

• Basic computer literacy and experience: MS Word, Excel, Power point, Email, google drive etc.

• Engaging and interactive trainer with passion for coaching team members, with experience in training and capacity building.
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

Terms

• Salary is commensurate with experience
• Attractive Benefits & Perks including Medical Insurance.
• Location: Candidate should be residents of Jinja.

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 — 97% of our on the ground staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting 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.
• We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.

Application Process

Intrigued?

Visit our website on www.experienceeducate.org/careers. You will be asked to upload a resume, cover letter and academic documents and respond to a few questions:

Deadline for sending applications is Friday 21st, July 2023.

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