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Head Of New Product Development

Head Of New Product Development
Company:

Educate!


Details of the offer

Job Summary

We’re looking for someone who excels in strategic analysis and is passionate about applying those skills to help out-of-school youth succeed in the informal sector. The ideal candidate will have some kind of analyst or management/strategy consulting experience.

Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Senior level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements

Position Overview

Educate!, a fast-growing and award-winning social enterprise, is looking for a Head of New Product Development to lead market research and development for an innovative new product for out-of-school youth in East Africa. We’re looking for someone who excels in strategic analysis and is passionate about applying those skills to help out-of-school youth succeed in the informal sector. The ideal candidate will have some kind of analyst or management/strategy consulting experience.

In our first ten years, Educate!
became the biggest youth skills provider in East Africa by scaling our
proven in-school model to impact hundreds of thousands of youth in
Uganda and Rwanda. In 2021, our top priority across the
organization is testing and developing a bootcamp model for
out-of-school youth in Kenya and Uganda.
We already have evidence that this type of model can lead to better
life outcomes for youth and are looking for the right person to lead the
research, analysis, and experimentation needed to develop a model that
can ultimately be scaled to reach hundreds of thousands of out-of-school
youth across multiple countries, providing an alternative to secondary
school for a huge and underserved segment of African youth.

Head of New Product Development for out-of-school youth will also join a dynamic leadership team committed to organizational and professional growth. Sound exciting? We think so too! Read below or visit our careers page to learn more about Educate!

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. Educate!’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. In
2020 we continued to impact youth through distance learning
and today we are leveraging that experience to create even more
sustainable products that will impact more youth over the long term.

Two rigorous external evaluations,
including a randomized controlled trial, found that towards the end of
secondary school, participants of our program earn nearly DOUBLE the
income of their peers. A follow-up RCT found that four years later, our
graduates demonstrate large and durable shifts in skills, coupled with
significant improvements in education and gender equity-related
outcomes. Girls achieve even greater results. Our graduates change their
lives and their communities, such as Daniel who
leveraged both his medical education and the transferable and business
skills gained through Educate! to open a rural health clinic in his
community employing two people and conducting about 350 checkups per
month.

Educate! is a non-profit social
enterprise with about 130 staff and more than 300 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 a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize (and was featured in a video), a 2015 WISE Award, and was highlighted by Bill Gates, in the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30, 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.
Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.

Key Performance Objectives
Market Research and Analysis
Analyse data and rank top areas with highest levels of OoSY and largest scale potential for bootcamps.
Coordinate the research and
recommendation of top industries and positions for informal sector youth
employment and entrepreneurship by ranking key industries and growth
sectors by size and youth participation potential.
Lead market research to discover key operational and strategic partnerships to invest in OoSY

Business Model Analysis
Research products and services for validated business models
Develop business models based on product research and identify key assumptions for testing
Connect with subject matter experts to understand technical elements of Business Models / Products
Research
and connect with potential partners in order to determine whether to
invest in exploring an explicit partnership program, according to key
partnership criteria

Product Development and Testing
Develop the initial user testing and feedback collection process for top business models
Support in survey design and data analysis for field research
Support Designer with technical content for training design

Managing Experimentation Process
Design and run experiments to validate business model hypothesis
Develop frameworks and templates for designing and documenting design experiments and validated learnings/insights
Ensure streamlined systems to collect, analyze, and interpret data to inform product development

Qualifications and Profile
Dynamic experience highly preferred, with demonstrated ability to operate well in complex and fast-changing environments
Experience in business analysis/consulting or a related field.
Exceptional analytical and research skills.
Passion
for Educate!’s mission is a must, but past work in education or youth
development is not required. We value diverse perspectives and encourage
applications from people with a variety of backgrounds. Background
working with youth in the informal sector would be an asset.
Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

What Is Educate! About?
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 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.
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.
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.
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 East Africa-based roles, we prefer candidates who are
nationals of the country where the role is based and/or part of the East
Africa Community.
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Head Of New Product Development
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