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Join Educate in a pivotal role tapping into Africa's vibrant youth population, and redefine teacher professional development in Tanzania.
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Educate! leverages learning to build scalable youth employment solutions, unlocking the potential of Africa's youngest continent. With over 300 staff members and 300 volunteer youth mentors across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, the organization thrives in a fulfilling work environment. In this exciting role as a MEWAKA (TCPD) Product Manager, your task is to redefine teacher professional development in Tanzania. Your core duties include cross-functional cooperation with various teams, setting product direction, adapting TCPD, specifically MEWAKA Cohorts, to the Tanzanian context, and driving sustained educator behavior change through evidence-based, sustainable product design and delivery. Role requirements include collaborating with the Principal Product Strategist to develop and execute strategies, executing testing plans, pilots, and experiments, working alongside the Product Associate to run sprint cycles, and collecting and analyzing data from various sources. The benefits of joining the organization include a vibrant, fun team, competitive salary, and excellent learning and growth opportunities.
Who We Are!
Africa has the world's youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate! we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world's youngest continent. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today's economy by introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary and delivering livelihood boot camps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women. To date, more than 500,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Educate! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth-oriented work environment.
The Role:
The MEWAKA (TCPD) Product Manager plays a central role in redefining teacher professional development in Tanzania. Working cross-functionally with program delivery, field operations, government advocacy, impact, and revenue teams, the role sets product direction, translates learning into action, and adapts TCPD, particularly MEWAKA Cohorts, to Tanzania's context. The ultimate goal of the role is to drive sustained educator behavior change through evidence-based, user-centered, and financially sustainable product design and delivery.
Job Requirements:
Collaborate with the Principal Product Strategist to develop, execute, and iterate on the MEWAKA Cohort 1 learning agenda, including an evaluation plan to assess strategy effectiveness. Translate hypotheses, features, and design assumptions into testing plans, pilots, and experiments. Work closely with the Product Associate to design and implement experiments that test product and design assumptions. Plan and run sprint cycles, including retrospectives, to refine MEWAKA features and delivery approaches. Collect, analyze, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data from pilots, field tests, and cohort implementation.
Benefits:
A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team. Competitive salary based on experience. Learning & growth opportunities.
