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Data Scientist

Educate!

Posted 3 months agoAfrica

Location

Africa

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Mid-Level

Category

Research, Measurement & Evaluation

Job Description

Who We Are! 🌍 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. Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: 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, East Africa. African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. 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. Africa each year. Good to note: To Our Awesome Applicants! 🚀💫 We know that incredible candidates someti You will leverage behavioral science and economic theory to develop "Theories of Change" that map the latent social mechanisms driving youth success. You’ll formulate and test rigorous hypotheses to identify the "why" behind program performance, turning social science theory into predictive variables.
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Responsibilities

  • What You’ll Do🌟 Theory-Driven Causal Discovery Construct Causal Frameworks: Move beyond correlation.
  • Hypothesis-Led Feature Engineering: Don't just throw data at a wall.
  • Analyze Heterogeneity: Go deeper than "average" results.
  • Building the Data Scien.
  • Educate! prepares youth in
  • Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in
  • Educate! is a team of over 300 largely
  • Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across
  • Inform Product Strategy: Act as a strategic partner to Product and Evaluation teams, identifying high-leverage use cases where data-driven insights can fundamentally pivot program design or delive

Benefits

  • What We Offer A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team.
  • Competitive salary based on experience.
  • 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 put Youth First, Impact-Obsessed - We are purpose-driven, focused on impact, and prioritize what truly matters.
  • We Are Always Learning - We are committed to seeking and applying new knowledge and ideas.
  • We stay open-minded and continuously try new things, experiment, grow, and improve.
  • We invest in learning for ourselves and our teams.
  • We work as one team and prioritize the organization's mission over personal or team interests.
  • Unafraid of failure, we question anything that hinders progress.
  • Ever.