Executive Associate to Executive Director - Tanzania

Executive Associate to the Executive Director
- Tanzania

Imagine Worldwide Tanzania (Imagine-TZ) is a non-profit organization affiliated with Imagine Worldwide (IW), a global NGO committed to transforming education through innovative technology. Imagine-TZ seeks to demonstrate that children — when provided with access to personalized, tablet-based learning — can acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills with minimal adult supervision. By leveraging evidence-based digital learning solutions, IW partners with governments, schools, and communities to expand access to quality education for underserved children across the country.

Literacy and numeracy skills are the basis for a better life and the positive benefits to health, wealth, and social outcomes are multi-generational. However, 9 out of 10 children across Sub-Saharan Africa cannot read and understand a simple text by age 10. Imagine works with partners worldwide to confront this crisis, using data and research to continuously refine and scale its foundational learning solution.

Imagine- TZ has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), the President's Office
- Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) in Zanzibar to implement a program known as Msingi Tek. This program will be rolled out in five regions of mainland (Morogoro, Manyara, Shinyanga, Tabora, and Ruvuma) as well as across 11 districts of Zanzibar. The first phase of the program, launched in May 2025, will reach 533 public primary schools (500 in mainland Tanzania and 33 in Zanzibar) over the course of 15 months.

If Msingi Tek demonstrates improvements in literacy and numeracy outcomes, it will be scaled nationwide in close collaboration with the government. This initiative has the potential to transform the learning journey for millions of children across Tanzania.

The Executive Associate will play a supporting role in carrying out Imagine's mission, to design, test, and scale tablet-based learning solutions that enable children to become literate and numerate. The position offers an international, flexible, learning environment to enhance individual career development and growth. The Executive Associate will join a highly committed and collaborative team that is working together to empower every child, everywhere to achieve their full potential.

They will work directly with the Executive Director of Imagine Tanzania, to support Imagine's growth in our scale countries.

Over the next six years, Imagine's goal is to serve more than 10 million children in at least four countries, ultimately achieving three times the typical level of literacy and numeracy outcomes of national education systems in Africa (60% fluency by the age of 10, as opposed to 20%). This all while delivering the program at less than $7 per child per year.

The Executive Associate will work closely with the Executive Director, focusing not only on providing administrative and operational support but also on driving key organizational initiatives in Tanzania. This role involves co-ordinating the country office and supporting operational excellence, conducting research for problem or root-cause analysis, preparing impactful presentations, and managing strategic projects to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Imagine Worldwide's mission delivery.

The ideal candidate must be a strong operator with relationship-building skills. The Executive Associate's responsibilities will include - but will not be limited to - the following:

• Administrative Support
• Work directly with the Executive Director to support key aspects of their work;
• Act as the point of contact for the Executive Director in engagements with Imagine Worldwide, the Government and other external partners. This includes receiving calls and visitors, answering a variety of questions with tact and diplomacy, taking messages, and directing calls appropriately for resolution.
• Prepare impactful presentations for meetings, including gathering documents, drafting documents or…