Vacancy title:
Creative writers, Curriculum designer and trainers

Jobs at:
Educate

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday 31th August, 2017 at 5:00 PM.

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Educate! is a fast-growing non-profit social enterprise, currently operating in Uganda and imminently expanding across East Africa and beyond. We deliver to secondary school youth a skills-based model of education, comprised of leadership and entrepreneurship training, mentorship, and real experience starting an enterprise, and work to incorporate our model into national education systems across Africa. Our Vision for 2024 is to impact 1 million youth annually across 10 countries in Africa.

Educate works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!'s goal is to make this practical, skills- based model part of nadonai education systems. in 2017 we're launching in Kenya, working in 120 secondary schools in Rwanda and 450 schools in Uganda (15% of the country) reaching over 25,000 students intensively and 360,000 more broadly.

Our model was proven to have massive impact in a randomized controlled trial. Graduates earned DOUBLE the income of a control group and had a 64% increase in business creation. Our graduates change their lives and their communities, such as Lillian Are who employs over 100 AIDS-affected women. in 2012 Educate! served as a technical advisor on the entrepreneurship curriculum reform; in 2015 we served as a technical advisor to Rwanda on their secondary education reform, and in 2016 we began sewing as a technical advisor to Kenya on their national curriculum reform.

Educates team includes 130 staff and over Z00 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations such as MasterCard, Big Bang Philanthropy, Mulago, Echoing Green, Ashoka and Global innovation Fund. Educate! won the 2015 WISE Awards, and was featured by Bill Gates, Forbes 30 under 30, Clinton Global initiative and The Brookings institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative.

Are you looking to be an outstanding high performance professional in the youth development and education sector? This training opportunity is for you!

Educate! presents an opportunity to creative writers, curriculum‘ designers, trainers and university graduates who enjoy working with youth. Interested candidates will go through an Education Design Training (EDT) that will:

• Equip them with skills in curriculum and content designing.
•  Train them to assess training needs, designing content, implementing & conducting trainings.
• Equip them on how to design training plans, activities and materials.
• Equip them with instructional system design.
• Receive a Certificate from Educate! As a Designer & Trainer.
• Offer you an opportunity to start a career with the Design & innovations Department if you possess the following qualifications, experience and skills, we would like to hear from you!

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree preferably in Education or any other related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in training, design or creative writing.
• Experience in Public speaking (excellent oral and written English), training and basic ICT skills.
• Experience in Relationship management, networking and problem solving skills.

Personal Qualities & Behavioral Traits

• Enjoys working with youth
•  inquisitive and eager to learn
• Creative and able to think outside of the box
• Displays respect for students, teachers and the teaching profession
• independent and self-motivated
• Currently residing in greater Kampala or who are willing to relocate to Kampala.

Job application procedure

• To apply, submit a 2-Page C.V. and an Application Letter (no more than 2 pages) answering the question "if you could train 40 A-level students for 1 hour, what would you train them on and how?” Also provide proof of home address through attaching a scanned LC1 Letter to ugandajobs@experienceeducate.org. 
• Please include "Position Title -—Where you found the position — Your Name" in the subject line. if someone referred you for this position, please include his/her name in the subject as "Referral: Name" The deadline for applications is Thursday 31th August, 2017 at 5:00 PM.
• Candidates who are shortlisted will be asked to complete a short design challenge on Thursday 7th September 2017.Successful candidates will be notified by Tuesday 12th September 2017.
• For more details about Educate! visit us on our website: www.experienceeducate.org