Educate!
Job Vacancy: Regional Recruiting Associate
Job Vacancy: Regional Recruiting Associate
Position Overview:Educate! has an exciting opening for
a Regional Recruiting Associate who will play a critical role in ensuring we
attract, hire and retain the best employees, while growing a strong talent
pipeline.
As the Regional Recruiting Associate,
you’ll apply your experience sourcing and hiring top talent to shape the team
that will drive growth at an award-winning social enterprise.
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.
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 2018, we’re working in 175
secondary schools in Rwanda and over 700 schools in Uganda reaching over 42,000
students intensively and 530,000 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 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
served as a technical advisor to Rwanda on its secondary education reform.
Educate!’s team includes almost 200
staff and almost 300 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, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30,
Clinton Global Initiative and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case
studies in their global scaling education learning initiative.
Educate!’s vision for 2024 is to
measurably impact 1 million students and reach 4 million students more broadly
across Africa each year.
Performance Objectives
Recruiting
·
Implement creative recruiting
strategies to reach prospective applicants.
·
Implement key recruiting processes
for high-level global and new country hires
·
Liaising and maintaining
relationships with recruitment channel partners including developing
partnership agreements and monitoring performance of these channels.
·
Ensure a positive candidate
experience for all applicants by responding to enquiries from prospective
applicants timely and professionally.
·
Act as a point of contact and build
influential candidate relationships during the selection process
·
Build and follow robust screening and
interview techniques to give memorable interview experience to the candidates.
Build candidate pipeline
·
Build networks for best-in-class
talent sourcing and internal pipelines for several key functions.
·
Implement new strategies to further
develop the Educate! Brand to prospective applicants.
Implement new technologies
·
Support in the implementation and
management of recruiting systems
·
Influence hiring managers so they
adhere to recruiting processes 98% of the time
·
Leverage data to develop insights
Country-Specific Recruiting Team Support
·
Support our in-country teams in
Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda with recruiting needs as they arise.
Qualifications
·
Bachelor’s degree, with a minimum of
2 years professional experience
·
Previous experience in recruiting
·
Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural
environment
·
Attention to detail, organizational
and prioritization skills
·
Skills in database management and record
keeping
·
Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and
email/internet
·
Exceptional judgment in maintaining
confidentiality of employee and candidate information
·
Background in HR Preferred
·
East African nationals are encouraged
to apply
·
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
qualifications and experience.
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 — 96%
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.
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.
5. 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.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply online
Job Vacancy: Recruiting Assistant
Position Overview: Working closely with the Regional Recruitment Manager &
Regional Recruiting Associate, the Recruiting Assistant will be responsible for
finding the most qualified candidates, who believe in Educate!’s mission.
The Recruiting Assistant is responsible for guiding candidates
through our hiring process and connecting them to opportunities to work at
Educate! The Recruiting Assistant is creative and driven, with an interpersonal
savvy that allows development of lasting relationships with both candidates and
hiring managers.
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.
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 2018, we’re working in 175 secondary schools in Rwanda and
over 700 schools in Uganda reaching over 42,000 students intensively and
530,000 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 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 served as a technical
advisor to Rwanda on its secondary education reform.
Educate!’s team includes almost 200 staff and almost 300
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, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30, Clinton Global Initiative
and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling
education learning initiative.
Educate!’s vision for 2024 is to measurably impact 1 million
students and reach 4 million students more broadly across Africa each year.
Performance Objectives
Recruiting
·
Implement creative recruiting
strategies to reach prospective applicants.
·
Implement key recruiting processes
for high-level global and new country hires
·
Liaising and maintaining
relationships with recruitment channel partners including developing
partnership agreements and monitoring performance of these channels.
·
Ensure a positive candidate
experience for all applicants by responding to enquiries from prospective
applicants timely and professionally.
·
Act as a point of contact and build
influential candidate relationships during the selection process
·
Build and follow robust screening and
interview techniques to give memorable interview experience to the candidates.
Build candidate pipeline
·
Build networks for best-in-class
talent sourcing and internal pipelines for several key functions.
·
Implement new strategies to further
develop the Educate! Brand to prospective applicants.
Implement new technologies
·
Support in the implementation and
management of recruiting systems
·
Influence hiring managers so they
adhere to recruiting processes 98% of the time
·
Leverage data to develop insights
Country-Specific Recruiting Team Support
·
Support our in-country teams in
Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda with recruiting needs as they arise.
Qualifications
·
Bachelor’s degree, with a minimum of
6 months professional experience
·
Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural
environment
·
Attention to detail, organizational
and prioritization skills
·
Skills in database management and
record keeping
·
Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and
email/internet
·
Exceptional judgment in maintaining
confidentiality of employee and candidate information
·
Background in HR Preferred
·
East African nationals are encouraged
to apply
·
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 qualifications and experience.
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 — 96% 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.
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 — 96% 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.
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.
5. 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.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply online
