Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 13, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
IT Business Analyst

Educate! started in 2002 when our first founder, Eric Glustrom, an American high school student, visited a refugee camp in the poorest corner of western Uganda.

Position Overview
Educate!, a high-growth and award-winning non-profit social enterprise, is looking for a Business Analyst to work on the Comprehensive Assessment Management Information System. In our first ten years, Educate! became the biggest youth skills provider in East Africa by scaling our proven in-school model to impact hundreds of thousands of youth in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
According to Ministerial Guidelines on Comprehensive Assessment issued in 2019, all assessment results, must be recorded and reported to different levels (sector, district and national).The results should be analyzed and visualized to provide a general picture of the learner's performance and implementation status of the curriculum. The business analyst will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to understand requirements for the technology products/solutions, develop product roadmaps and project-manage the entire technology product/solution development cycle. The ideal hire is passionate about working with data to drive improvements in user experience and excited to work with government stakeholders, teachers, and other education stakeholders to ensure the success of this system.
This role reports to the Director General NESA and works closely with the CAMIS task force comprised of software developers and system administrators for a period of two years.

The right person for this role:
• Is a master coordinator and exceptional project manager
• Is analytical and data-driven
• Will have an end-user focus
• Will have strong communication and interpersonal skills; must be great at building and maintaining relationships
About Educate!
What if there was a way to measurably change the trajectory of the lives of youth across Africa? Since its launch in 2009, Educate! has worked to do just this, delivering outsized impacts at scale and at disproportionately low cost, through a product-led approach to youth development. As a disruptive, not-for-profit, social enterprise, our team leverages an obsession with evidence and entrepreneurial drive to tackle one our planet's greatest challenges - unlocking the potential of its youngest continent.
Educate!’s core model combines training in key skills with access to practical experience starting a business and mentorship, a formula that has been validated by several independent evaluations. This model is distributed through products targeting two lead channels. First, Educate! works with governments to help reform education systems at scale through policy change, teacher behavior change and tech-enabled products targeting systems-level sustainability, while also working directly with select schools. Second, Educate! builds employment-focused bootcamps and business support services targeting out-of-school youth left out of the education system. To date, more than 200,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted by this model across Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya and along the way Educate! has become the largest youth skills provider in East Africa.
Educate! is a team of over 160 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations and product leaders such as Imaginable Futures, Big Bang Philanthropy, Echoing Green, the 1st Google Employee’s foundation, the head of Google Search and Rippleworks Foundation. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by Bill Gates, in the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative. Educate! was also selected by the UN’s Generation Unlimited as 1 of 20 innovative youth solutions and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator.
Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.

Performance Objectives
Requirements gathering: Translating Product strategy into product development specifics
• Gather all information from cross-functional teams to translate strategy into clear product specifics.
• Assist business stakeholders to define and refine their requests
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to define the relevant personas, user journeys, and functional requirements.
• Drive decision-making with internal partners
• Translate requirements into product designs
• Develop and own a product strategy that is clearly articulated, easily understood, and delivers meaningful value to NESA customers and business over time
• Identify areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently develop these modifications requirements

User-focused/Customer-centered product design
We need a Business Analyst to build processes and practices to continuously gather and address usability issues with NESA technology products.
• Lead ideation for the needs identified- creating designs based on requirements and strategy
• Construct systems and processes to gather data on how users actually experience it on a day to day basis
• Own process of integrating customer feedback into products under NESA’s guidance
Market Research and User Testing
• Research and analyze the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Plan, prepare and conduct research on potential solutions
• Collect quantitative and qualitative product data and metrics through market research
• Testing and evaluating new designs/ product features
• Research and analyze the way CAMIS data can be used and then drive improvements in user experience

Project Management
• Build and execute an actionable roadmap that empowers developers to realize the product strategy
• Providing vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders to achieve the product vision
• Collaborate closely with NESA departments to drive the execution of the product development team
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Developer management: oversee development of product features either through external consultants or development
• Develop quality assurance procedures

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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