Educate! Is looking for an enthusiastic, systems-oriented, ethical and analytical individual with great interpersonal and communication skills to fill the Finance Coordinator position. S/he will support the Finance Department to ensure payments are processed accurately, lead in finance systems compliance, timely tracking of accounts receivables and ensuring budget analysis & management. You’ll be joining a motivated, passionate, overachieving team that is positioning Educate! To be the leader in skills-based secondary education in Africa and intensively impact millions of youth each year.
About Educate!
Educate! Prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by reforming what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.
In 2020, we’re working in 175 secondary schools in Rwanda, 60 pilot schools in Kenya, and over 750 schools in Uganda reaching over 42,000 students intensively and 530,000 more broadly. Our model was proven to have massive impact in a randomized controlled trial. Graduates earned DOUBLE the income of a control group and had a 64% increase in business creation. Our graduates change their lives and their communities, such as Lillian Aero who employs over 100 AIDS-affected women.
In 2012, Educate! Partnered with Uganda’s government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda’s entrepreneurship course nationally, and in 2015, we served as a technical advisor to Rwanda on its secondary education reform.
Educate!’s team includes nearly 200 staff and almost 300 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations such as MasterCard, Big Bang Philanthropy, Mulago, Echoing Green, Ashoka and Global Innovation Fund. Educate! won the 2015 WISE Awards, and was featured by Bill Gates, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30, Clinton Global Initiative and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative.
Educate!’s vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year. .

Performance Objectives:
1. Payments Processing – 40%
2. Finance Systems Compliance – 15%
3. Accounts Receivables – 20%
4. Budget Analysis and Management – 25%
For more details on the Job Description visit our website on www.experienceeducate.org/careers Terms
• Salary is commensurate with experience
• Benefits include Medical Insurance.
• Location is in Kampala, Uganda.
Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate! • We’ve got the impact.
• Educate! is designed for scale. We quadrupled operations in 2014, going from 54 to more than 200 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and – here’s the best part – we are maintaining quality at four times the size.
• We believe in local leadership – 97% of our on the ground staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda – Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting thousands more students than we can reach directly.
• Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.
• We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.