Educate!
Job Vacancy: M&E Coordinator, Kenya
Position Overview: Educate! is seeking an enthusiastic and self-driven M&E
Coordinator for our Kenya Team to start up our efforts for program monitoring
on our program.
Educate! lives a culture of
data-driven decision-making through best-in-class program performance
management and iterative program design based on learning and experimentation.
Educate! is a fast-growing non-profit
social enterprise, currently operating in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya, 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.
Educate!’s vision for 2024 is to
measurably impact 1 million students, and reach 4 million students more broadly,
across Africa each year.
The right person for this opportunity
is excited about working with data, a master coordinator, passionate about our
mission of creating leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa, and is committed to
being part of a high performing team!
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 more than 350 secondary schools in Uganda 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 serving 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 in Africa by 2024.
Performance Objectives
Build and maintain Monitoring system
aligned with Programs needs and targets
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Oversee high quality and
functionality of Monitoring system
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Design Monitoring tools and data
collection procedures
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Maintain M&E technologies for
real-time data collection
Empower field staff in the
implementation of high-quality M&E
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Empower a strong team to implement
program monitoring
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Conduct practical and interactive
trainings on Program Monitoring
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Offer leadership and technical
support field staff with their Monitoring responsibilities
Coordinate timely and accurate data
collection to monitor program performance
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Coordinate data collection according
to set expectations, timelines and quality standards
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Manage towards timely submission and
high data accuracy of monitoring data
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Collaborate with the Programs Team on
the successful implementation of the Monitoring activities
Ensure reporting on program
performance leads to practical changes in program management and design
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Produce real-time and attractive
Monitoring Reports
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Lead review of Monitoring results
with the Programs and Leadership Team
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Make recommendations to improve
program management and design
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science
or similar
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High level of proficiency in Windows
Excel
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Engaging and interactive trainer with
passion for coaching team members
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Wide experience in coordination of
field-based Monitoring activities
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Knowledge of quantitative &
qualitative research approaches
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Good skills in data analysis
presentation and report writing
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Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see
What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture
deck here
Location: Location is Nairobi, Kenya
Why You Will Brag About Working At
Educate!
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We’ve got the impact.
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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.
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We believe in local leadership — 96%
of our staff is African.
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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.
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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?
Please visit HERE to
apply online.
You will be asked to upload a resume,
and your response to the following questions:
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Why this position?
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Briefly describe your experience in
evaluating data; and making recommendations from this data.
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Have you previously evaluated data on
Excel or similar tools? Briefly describe the steps you took.
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How did you hear about this job? If
from a friend, job board, Educate! employee please let us know.
*Applications will be accepted on a
rolling basis, with preference to close position asap. Priority deadline is
June 7th.
What Is Educate! About?
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.
1. 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.
2. We Are Always Learning – When you work at Educate!, educating
yourself is part of your job too. We encourage every employee to find the best
book on management; share the latest article on graphic design; bring in your
favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the field.
We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.
3. We Only Solve a Problem Once – We are allergic to band-aids so
we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for good,
even problems we haven’t recognized yet.
4. We Are Flexible – We thrive on change — we’re 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
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.
