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Data Scientist
Educate!
Posted 4 months agoEast Africa (Uganda/Kenya/Rwanda)
Location
East Africa (Uganda/Kenya/Rwanda)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Mid-Level
Category
Technology
Job Description
🌍 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.
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.
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.
We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Livelihood Impact Fund, Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, CIFF and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work.
We know that incredible candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply!
We’re looking for passionate individuals who believe in our mission and can bring unique perspectives to our team—not just those who check every box. We value diversity and strongly encourage women and individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
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Requirements
- Ability to explain a "p-value" to a teacher and "youth agency" to a software engineer.
- A deep passion for education reform, youth empowerment, and the development landscape in East Africa.
- Languages: Python (pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels) or R (tidyverse, ggplot2, lme4)
- Tools:
- SQL: BigQuerySQL for structured data
- Version Control: Git/GitHub,
- Field Data Collection: ODK/SurveyCTO
- Data Visualization: Looker, Tableau
- Unstructured/Semi-structured Data:
- Familiarity working with semi-structured data (JSON, nested fields, open text fields)
- Experience integrating qualitative context (program documentation, transcripts) into quantitative analysis workflows
- Exposure to text analysis methods — thematic coding, basic NLP, or LLM-based feature extraction
- We are open to this position being based in one of our offices in East Africa, preferably Kenya or Uganda.
Responsibilities
- Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by:
- Educate! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors.
- Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
- Educate!, the largest youth skills service provider in East Africa, is seeking a Data Scientist. We aren’t just looking for someone to optimize algorithms; we are looking for an architect of opportuni
Benefits
- A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team.
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Learning & growth opportunities
- Application Process: Rolling basis, interviews happening soon!
- We Exceed Expectations - We take pride in going above an