Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 24, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Overview
Educate!, a fast-growing non-profit social enterprise, is looking for a Rwanda Managing Director to drive our growth and scale in Rwanda as we work towards our organizational vision of measurably impacting 1 million students across Africa each year.
As the Rwanda Managing Director, you’ll be at the forefront of a talented and ambitious young team. You will lead the execution and creation of new strategies to lead the scaling of our programs in Rwanda. You will ensure we are building and experimenting with diverse systems to optimize our processes ensuring maximum efficiency and effectiveness as we scale. In addition, you are responsible to lead, coach, inspire and build a passionate and results oriented team that will drive the realization of our ambition over the next few years.
You’ll also join a dynamic leadership team committed to organizational and professional growth. The right person will be a strong leader with 10+ years of dynamic experience and a proven track record of managing change internally. .

Performance Objectives
Lead strategy implementation to drive transformative impact
• Ensure country-wide performance on strategic objectives across the organization
• Collaborate with management team to implement org-wide initiatives to ensure successful completion of top organization-wide objectives
• Clearly articulate Educate! Rwanda’s vision internally and manage changes in country activities to maintain strong team alignment and engagement
Lead country-wide operations to drive world-class team performance
• Provide financial leadership to maintain a stringent environment of financial management and integrity
• Quickly address employee performance issues with a caring approach and an eye towards their improvement, while being comfortable exiting non-performers to drive highest quality team performance and growth
• Ensure tight financial management in line with Educate! culture
• Manage financial constraints strategically to optimize impact against cost and position Educate! to continue to accelerate growth year over year
• Exemplify clear and consistent communication to all levels of the organization
• Oversee strategic management of key risks facing the organization
Program Implementation Strategy & Evaluation
• Responsible for planning, reviewing and prioritizing our mid and long term goals for program success.
• Set growth and staffing strategy in line with country 3-year objectives and revenue strategy.
• Oversee country evaluation strategy and ensure strategy responds to impact data.
• Identify and propose systems/structures for experimentation to create efficient delivery mechanisms.
• Oversee program implementation and ensure quality program implementation
Performance Management
• Build, lead and coach a highly results oriented team to deliver our goals
• Develop field team recruitment and training strategies to ensure high-quality deliverance and scalable cost model.
• Conduct performance management of coordinators and fair and accurate performance reviews for team.
• High-growth staffing strategy: coverage of gaps, career planning for star performers, developing rising leaders, pipelines, and ensuring training and coaching programs are in place.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Qualifications and Profile
• Dynamic experience highly preferred, with demonstrated ability to operate well in complex and fast-changing environments
• 8+ years’ work experience, with 5+ years of management and/or leadership experience
• Experience managing medium to large size teams and balancing multiple priorities
• Financial integrity and budget management experience
• 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.
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see what Educate is! About? Below); learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here
Terms
• Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience
• Benefits include medical insurance
• This position will be based in Kigali 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 goes national. In 2012 Educate! partnered with Uganda’s government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda’s entrepreneurship course nationally, in 2015 we served as a technical advisor to Rwanda on its secondary education reform, and in 2016 we began serving as a technical advisor to Kenya on its national curriculum reform.
• 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 US Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: 8+ years

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Application deadline will be rolling, with the goal to fill position ASAP.
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