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Join Educate and reshape professional teacher development in Tanzania, targeting Africa's booming youth population.
Overview
Salary
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Location
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Expires
Expires at anytime
Educate! is an impact-driven organisation focused on providing employment solutions for Africa's rapidly growing young population. Our innovative approach includes introducing an employment-focused school subject in secondary schools and conducting livelihood boot camps, particularly for marginalized rural girls and young women. To date, our transformative work has touched over 500,000 lives across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Role Summary:
- As the MEWAKA (TCPD) Product Manager, your primary task is to redefine teacher professional development in Tanzania.
- You will be working cross-functionally with various departments to set product direction, learn and apply knowledge, and adapt the MEWAKA cohorts to the Tanzanian setting.
Role Requirements:
- Your responsibilities will include working alongside the Principal Product Strategist to develop and implement the learning agenda for the MEWAKA Cohort.
- You will conduct exploratory tests and execute design assumptions through experiments.
- You will also be involved in running sprint cycles and refining MEWAKA features and delivery methods based on the data gathered from pilots, field tests, and cohort implementations.
Benefits:
- We offer a dynamic, mission-driven work environment, a competitive salary package, and opportunities for learning and growth.
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.
