Strategic Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead

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. Educate!

prepares youth in 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, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

Educate! is a team of over 300 largely 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.

's long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. Good to note: To Our Awesome Applicants! 🚀💫 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.

Position Overview Educate! , an award-winning non-profit social enterprise, is seeking a Strategic Monitoring, Evaluation Learning (MEL) Lead who will serve as the primary implementor of the MEL coordination for the Leaders in Teaching (LIT) Coordination Platform in Tanzania, supporting four partner organizations to develop and communicate a shared impact story around Tanzania’s secondary education reform. This role sits at the intersection of learning strategy, measurement, partnership management, and systems change.

The MEL Lead will work across LIT organizations, in close collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, to strengthen alignment on a shared Theory of Change, harmonize indicators and methodologies, coordinate reporting processes, and generate strategic insights that demonstrate collective effectiveness across the partnership. The role requires an individual who can comfortably navigate complex multi-stakeholder environments, facilitate collaboration among organizations with varying MEL capacities, and translate diverse data sources into clear and compelling evidence for funders, government stakeholders, and partners. In addition to supporting the LIT Coordination Platform, you will provide flexible MEL advisory support to Educate!

on funder-driven MEL priorities and requests as needed. Works closely with Educate! Tanzania Program and MEL Teams, Leaders in Teaching partner MEL representatives, Mastercard Foundation teams, and external consultants and evaluators.

This is a full-time position with an expected duration of 6 months.