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Educate

Vacancy title:
Program Manager East & North

Deadline of this Job:
Friday 21st October 2016

Duty Station:
Uganda

Job details:
Position Overview
Educate!, a fast growing, non-profit social enterprise, is seeking to hire an enthusiastic and self-driven PROGRAM MANAGER EAST & NORTH to lead program delivery strategy, procedure management, provide financial oversight, and performance management in our operations in the districts across Eastern and Northern Uganda as we move towards our vision for 2024 of reaching one million youth annually across ten countries in Sub Saharan Africa. As a Program Manager you will directly supervise a team of 2 Program Coordinators (PCs) and 2 Regional Officers (ROs) as they manage a team of Program Officers (P0s) and Youth Leaders (YLs) respectively to implement the Educate! Experience Program.

About Educate
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 national education systems.

In 2016 we're working in 100 schools in Rwanda and 12% of secondary schools in Uganda (350 schools) reaching over 120,000 students. 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 Aero who employs over 100 AIDS-affected women. In 2012 Educate! partnered with Uganda's government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda's entrepreneurship course nationally, and in 2015 we began sewing as a technical advisor to Rwanda on their national curriculum reform.

Educate's team includes 100 staff and over 140 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 Forbes 30 under 30, Clinton Global Initiative and The Brookings Institution. Educate‘s vision is to reach one million students annually across 10 countries in Africa by 2024.

Performance Objectives
Program Delivery Strategy (30%)

• Prepare monthly regional meetings memo, review with Team in preparation to lead the meetings.
• Review termly monitoring reports, internal Advisory Board feedback, and risk analysis.
• Produce a termly action plan reflected in team's goals and monthly priorities, Lead termly planning retreats with team of PCs.
• Lead 1:1 meetings with team, review work plans, l9|Ti1lY mid-term and termly goals, monitoring, and set/check in on monthly priorities.
• Conduct 3 tier management by observing PC's and R0's in their role and checking in on program officers,
• Work with HR to review and update program staff recruitment and hiring strategy, advise on all Regional Program team capacity concerns.

Performance Management (30%)

• Monitor & support Program Coordinators in leading monthly regional meetings with team of Program Officers.
• Review & approve annual staff appraisals of POs and YLs prepared by PCs and ROs. Make sure performance reviews are completed and submitted to HR on time.
• Observe program officers lead YBE meetings, Experience Association meetings, and/or CU events; Monitor trainings to uphold quality and provide feedback to the Team & the Design and Training Department.
• Supervise and advise PCs and P0s on how to maintain & increase association |'l1S&tlllg attendance & administration trainings, supervise and advise PCs and PO on LEC delivery, monitoring compliance, attendance and mentor management.

Program Procedures Management (15%)

• Oversee updates and changes to program procedures, Conduct termly & hall-year procedure check-in sessions with team to revise Programs Handbooks.
• Set up/Conduct program procedures trainings, sell-training guides, and reminder systems.
• Develop information Management Systems for the Experience Association certification.
• Coordinate monitoring feedback system & feedback Documentation

Financial Oversight (25%)

• Create regional annual budgets, prepare Budget vs. Actual based reports, Submit revised budgets to Head of Programs and suggest budget reallocation.
• Co-lead half-year budget review, explaining all causes of budget vs. actual discrepancies, and re-allocating money for second hall.
• Meet with Finance Department monthly to liaise on issues of procedure compliance, school payment reports, cash flow, and audits,
• Build program coordinators skill set and support to approve program officer expenses.
• Work with finance on revising and improving financial procedures for regional program activities; manage strategy to uncover fraud and/misuse of funds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies. Business Administration or other relevant field. Post-graduate qualification will be an added advantage.
• 3 - 4 Years professional working in a fast paced diverse environment
• Experience in training & coaching, working with the youth and entrepreneurship skills.
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see; what is Educate! About? Below; Learn more by looking at Educate‘s culture deck)

Terms

• Salary is very attractive and commensurate with experience
• Benefits include Medical Insurance
• Location is Kampala, Uganda.

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 tour times the size.
We believe in local leadership 97% 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.
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.

Job application procedure
Intrigued? Please send a resume. a cover letter describing yourself. and a list of references 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". Deadline for submission is 5:30 pm Friday 21st October 2016.

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.

We Put Youth First
The youth we serve come first, Always in everything. That means we wake up thinking of ways we can serve youth even better and get the highest impact out of every dollar that we spend. It means Educate! doesn't own a single vehicle, because we'd rather take the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means making every decision like the future depends on it because if we get our way, it does.

We Are Always Learning
When you work at Educate. educating yourself is part of your job too. We encourage every team member to find the best book on management; share the latest article on how to coach somebody; bring in your favorite mentor. or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.

We Only Solve a Problem Once
We are allergic to band-aids and short term solutions so we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for good, even for problems we haven't recognized yet.

We Are Flexible
We thrive on change
we're in tact driving it. We are growing every day, so we have to adapt quickly to meet new challenges, and our team keeps up.

We Exceed Expectations
We assume we can achieve the impossible because we already have, year after year. We want our staff to create your own challenges, ask the toughest questions. and dream scary big

Every person at Educate!
from lntems to the Executive Director
is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets‘ They are at the oore of how we achieve our mission and why we work as welt as we do. laducato is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment tor all who interact iri our oomrnunity. In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures. backgrounds and life experiences to join our diverse team.

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