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Date Posted: Monday, February 05 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Overview of Educate!

DEVELOPING YOUNG LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS IN AFRICA
ATTRACTIVE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities.

Educate! provides youth and especially Out-of-School Youth with skills in accelerated business start-ups, along with mentorship to start real businesses.

About Educate!
What if there was a way to measurably change the trajectory of the lives of youth across Africa? Since its launch in 2009, Educate! has worked to do just this, delivering outsized impacts at scale and at disproportionately low cost, through a product-led approach to youth development. As a disruptive, not-for-profit, social enterprise, our team leverages an obsession with evidence and entrepreneurial drive to tackle one our planet's greatest challenges - unlocking the potential of its youngest continent.

Educate!'s core model combines training in key skills with access to practical experience starting a business and mentorship, a formula that has been validated by several independent evaluations. This model is distributed through products targeting two lead channels. First, Educate! works with governments to help reform education systems at scale through policy change, teacher behavior change and tech-enabled products targeting systems-level sustainability, while also working directly with select schools. Second, Educate! builds employment-focused bootcamps and business support services targeting out-of-school youth left out of the education system. To date, more than 400,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted by this model across Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya and along the way Educate! has become the largest youth skills provider in East Africa.

Educate! is a team of over 160 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations and product leaders such as Imaginable Futures, Big Bang Philanthropy, Echoing Green, the 1st Google Employee's foundation, the head of Google Search and Rippleworks Foundation. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by Bill Gates, in the World Bank's S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative. Educate! was also selected by the UN's Generation Unlimited as 1 of 20 innovative youth solutions and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator.

Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact org. Please write "Training Opportunity" as your subject line. millions of youth across Africa each year.

Are you looking to be an outstanding high-performance professional in Youth Development? This training is for you!

Educate! presents a training opportunity for University graduates who are passionate about working with the unique youth demographic.

Interested candidates will go through a 3-weeks Youth Entrepreneurship Training (YET) that will empower participants:
With core competencies to lead engaging and practical learning experiences for Youth through hands-on practice and feedback.
• To implement best practices to build meaningful relationships with Youth and to drive transformational learning outcomes.
• To build confidence and clarity to support the delivery of the SEED curriculum.
• To develop capacity to train others to be effective coaches and mentors With Public Speaking, Group Facilitation, and Events Management skills.
• To be a part of the prestigious Educate! network and benefit from any potential opportunities within the network.

The training is open to only 80 participants. University graduates in Eastern Uganda and from these districts are highly encouraged to apply: Jinja, Kamuli, Mayuge, Iganga & Bugiri.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree preferably in Education, Business, social or Entrepreneurship related fields.
• Minimum of 1-year professional experience in either teaching/ working, or volunteering with Youth in any related field. Experience working with Out-of-school youth is an added advantage
• Possession of basic Computer skills & fluent in Lusoga
• UGX 50,000 contribution towards learning materials during the YET.

There will be immediate post training opportunities dependant on participant performance.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply, submit a strictly 1-page CV and a cover letter with an essay no more than 1 page with two paragraphs answering the question "If you were a Youth expert, please share how you would support youth, especially girls, who are no longer in school, and what support mechanisms would you offer/suggest."

Selected participants will choose to be part of either Kamuli or Iganga training site from March 4th - 22nd March 2024. The application deadline is 19th February, 2024
Email your application to: contractorrecruitment@experienceeducate.org 

Please note that applications that don't specify the subject line above shall not be considered.

Only those who pass the CV screening will be contacted. Whatsapp +256781567704 for any inquiries.


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