Performance Metrics Officer - MEWAKA, Tanzania

About this role

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.

Educate!'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!, the largest youth skills service provider in East Africa, is seeking a Performance Metrics Officer to support monitoring, reporting, and data quality for the MEWAKA program in Tanzania. This role is important in helping teams collect accurate and timely data across different program locations. The Performance Metrics Officer will work closely with the Performance Metrics Coordinator and frontline teams to support daily reporting, data tracking, data cleaning, and use of monitoring tools and systems.

In this role, you will help ensure that program data is complete, accurate, and submitted on time. You will support frontline staff by answering questions about reporting tools, following up on missing or incorrect data, supporting training, and carrying out field visits to ensure tools are being used correctly. You will also support the maintenance of systems such as SurveyCTO, Google Forms, and dashboards, while helping prepare reports and simple data analysis to support program decisions.

The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with data and digital tools. You should be able to manage your work independently, communicate well with different teams, and be willing to travel to field locations when needed. This role is a good fit for someone interested in data, program…