Fractional Senior Advisor

Educate! | Remote | ~10–12 hours per week | Consultancy

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, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

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. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations, and 6 current or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows.

Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.

Educate! is looking for a Fractional Senior People Advisor to partner with our CEO and executive team as a senior people advisor.

Educate! is now 300+ staff across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania. At this size our most interesting people problems aren't administrative. They're about how we manage growth across countries, how we apply policy and employment law to get the best outcome for the business and the people in it, and most importantly, strong communications in bringing our people along in the decisions we make.

This is a senior, part-time advisory engagement, roughly 10–12 hours per week, fully remote. You will not run the people function; that sits with our Global People & HR Director. You will be the seasoned people business partner our executive team leans on when the stakes are high: someone who reads a situation quickly, can decipher what the policy and the law actually allow, and helps the exec team choose the option that holds up commercially, legally, and with the team.

• Act as a senior people business partner to the CEO and exec team
• Bring an independent read on org design, team composition, and succession questions as Educate! scales
• Pressure-test decisions before they are made, and name the risks nobody else is naming

• Translate our existing global policy and countries' employment law into practical options the exec team can act on: what we can do, what it costs us, and what it does to trust
• Advise on the live, consequential cases: restructures, exits, performance situations, grievances and investigations across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania
• Judge when a global standard should hold and when local context should shift how we apply it
• Flag where our current policy is getting in the way of a good business or people outcome, so we can fix it

• Coach individual team members through the interpersonal and cross-cultural dynamics of a matrixed, multi-country organization
• Design and, where useful, facilitate sessions that get the team moving when it is stuck

• Shape the messaging behind restructures, policy changes, and leadership transitions before they land
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