Product Manager at Educate!

Position Overview
We are looking for a qualified and passionate Product Manager to join our ambitious and cross functional Technology team.
About Educate!
Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy.
We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically—trained teachers and youth mentors. Educatel’s goal is to make this practical, skills—based model part of national education systems.
In 2019, we partnered with the government to pilot in 60+ schools in Kenya, worked in 275+ secondary schools in Rwanda, and 800+ schools in Uganda (25% of the country), reaching over 46,000 students intensively and 470,000 more broadly.
Educate!’s team includes 200 staff and 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! was also selected by the UN’s Generation Unlimited as 1 of 20 innovative youth solutions. Educate!’s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
What ls 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 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
2. We Are Always Learning
3. We Only Solve a Problem Once
4. We Are Flexible
5. We Exceed Expectations
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. For more information on Educate! Culture visit www.experienceeducate.org/careers#culture  .

The Product Manager will solve consumer-facing problems, develop product roadmaps, and execute those plans to bring value to end users. The ideal hire will help the product team meet and exceed its goals by translating strategic business initiatives into technology products. The Product manager will be part of a new and growing Technology team and will provide support to the product, delivery and M&E teams.

Terms
• We are open to this position being based in one of our offices in East Africa, in either Nairobi, Kampala or Kigali.
• Salary is commensurate with experience; Benefits include medical insurance.

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 — 97% of our on the ground staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting 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 U5, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.

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