Overview of Educate!
Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities.
Educate! provides youth and especially Out-of-School Youth with skills in accelerated business start-ups, along with mentorship to start real businesses.
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 400,000 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.
Are you looking to be an outstanding high-performance professional in Youth Development? This training is for you!
Educate! presents a training opportunity for University graduates who are passionate about working with the unique youth demographic.
Interested candidates will go through a 3-week Youth Entrepreneurship Training (YET) that will empower participants:
Benefits
Become a certified youth trainer!
- Refine your skills in public speaking and facilitation.
- Grow professionally while making a real difference.
- Join the prestigious Educate! Network of certified trainers.
Training is open to all University graduates who meet the requirements and stay or live within the East, West and Central regions of Uganda
Targeted Districts include;
Central: Mukono, Wakiso, Kampala, Luweero, Mpigi,
East: Iganga,Mayuge, Jinja, Kamuli, Mbale, Bugiri, Pallisa
West: Hoima,Sheema, Isingiro, Mbarara, Rukungiri,Ibanda,Bushenyi, Kabale
Requirements:
- Completed Undergraduate degree in the field (Business, Education,
- Social Work and any other)
- Fluent in English and one of the regional languages; Runyakitara, Luganda, or Lusoga
- Between 21-30 years old
- UGX 50,000 contribution towards learning materials for only successful candidates
There will be immediate post-training opportunities depending on participant performance.
To apply, Submit your application by copying and pasting the link below in your browser and following the instructions: https://bit.ly/41gahhZ
Or Alternatively
Send your resume, cover letter, and (write an essay not exceeding 500 words responding to this question and attach it as a document)
What role does entrepreneurship play in Ugandan society? Please add examples from your home community.
Make sure to use the word salubrious in your essay and send it to the email below.
[email protected] with the subject line
“YET Training Opportunity 2025.”
Training sites will be within the regions from February 3-21 February 2025
There will be a virtual information session on Monday 13th January and Tuesday 14th January 2025 and links shall be shared via email for only screened candidates. This is where more information regarding the YET training venues will be communicated.
The application deadline is 10th January 2025.
Only those who pass the CV screening will be contacted.
Whatsapp or call +256 705269280/ 702322557 for any inquiries.
