Director, Regional Talent Acquisition & Leadership Development at Educate!

Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

Position Overview

Educate!, a high-growth nonprofit social enterprise, is searching for a Director of Talent Acquisition & Leadership Development. In this role, you’ll ensure that we continue to build and develop an outstanding leadership team capable of designing solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. We’re looking for someone dynamic, strategic, and passionate about talent and people, with experience recruiting for complex and senior roles in East Africa.

Educate!’s global and leadership teams have grown considerably in the past two years as we’ve innovated to respond to the challenges of COVID and set ourselves up for greater growth and impact in the future. In the coming years, we’ll continue to need a strong leadership team and a strong pipeline of emerging leaders to drive the next stage of our growth, including scaling new program models and expanding to additional countries.

This role will ensure that we are able to bring on and develop the right people to meet those needs. You’ll work closely with senior leaders and a talented existing recruiting team to support Educate!’s current and future leaders — making an indelible mark on the organization and our work to redefine what post-primary education looks like for youth in Africa.

Performance Objectives

Executive Recruiting: Lead and/or support end-to-end recruiting processes to fill complex senior roles.

• Work with hiring managers to create engaging and accurate job descriptions and define the skills needed for new roles


• Implement creative sourcing and marketing strategies to reach prospective applicants, including passive candidates


• Design and lead structured, culturally-aligned hiring processes that result in good decisions for Educate! and good experiences for both hiring managers and candidates


• Learn about the compensation market for senior roles in order to set salaries according to Educate!’s market-based philosophy


• Make and close offers to high-level candidates

Global Recruiting Function Leadership: Lead the global recruiting function and team.

• Lead a 3-person global recruiting team and ensure continuous professional development for this team


• Work with our Talent Acquisition Specialist on creating and implementing recruiting strategy, metrics, and management processes


• Collaborate with the existing team to continuously assess and improve Educate!’s recruiting processes and tools


• Ensure that the recruiting function is consistently implemented with excellence across Educate!

Leadership Development: Build and implement Educate!’s leadership development strategy.

• Ensure that leaders at Educate! are supported with the professional development needed to perform their best and grow with the org


• Implement strategies to build Educate!’s pipeline of emerging leaders and prepare them for growth


• Learn about current and future skills and roles needed on Educate!’s leadership team and plan to get ahead of emerging needs


• Instill leadership development principles into learning & professional development activities across the organization

Centering African Leadership: Ensure that recruiting and leadership development work prioritizes and centers African leadership.

• Periodically check into and work with teams on recruiting principles designed to prioritize African leaders


• Develop metrics to track success in prioritizing African leadership


• Ensure that leadership development strategies include prioritizing African leadership as a goal

Qualifications

• At least 7-10 years of work experience, including management or leadership roles and significant experience in talent acquisition


• Dynamic work experience preferred (such as experience in multiple different roles, sectors, or areas of work)


• Passionate about building top-tier recruiting and leadership development systems


• Strong project management skills, including organization and prioritization


• Strategic, creative thinker and problem-solver


• Exceptional judgment in maintaining confidentiality of employee and candidate information


• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

What Is Educate! About?

We’re ambitious. Are you? Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.

• We Put Youth First – The youth we serve come first. Always. In everything. That means we wake up thinking of ways we can serve youth even better and get the highest impact out of every dollar that we spend. It means Educate! doesn’t own a single vehicle, because we’d rather take the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means making every decision like the future depends on it — because if we get our way, it does.


• We Are Always Learning – When you work at Educate!, educating yourself is part of your job too. We encourage every employee to find the best book on management; share the latest article on graphic design; bring in your favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.


• We Only Solve a Problem Once – We are allergic to band-aids so we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for good, even problems we haven’t recognized yet.


• We Are Flexible – We thrive on change — we’re driving it. We are growing every day, so we have to adapt quickly to meet new challenges, and our team keeps up.


• We Exceed Expectations – We assume we can achieve the impossible because we already have, year after year. We want our staff to create your own challenges, ask the toughest questions, and dream scary big!

Every person at Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve our mission and why we work as well as we do.

Educate is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community. In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds and life experiences to join our diverse team.

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