[Hiring] Fractional Senior People Advisor @Educate!

Role Description

Educate! is looking for a Fractional Senior People Advisor to partner with our CEO and executive team as a senior people advisor. This is a senior, part-time advisory engagement, roughly 10–12 hours per week, fully remote. You will not run the people function; that sits with our Global People & HR Director. You will be the seasoned people business partner our executive team leans on when the stakes are high.

What You’ll Do🌟

• Partner with the exec team on people decisions
• Act as a senior people business partner to the CEO and exec team
• Bring an independent read on org design, team composition, and succession questions as Educate! scales
• Pressure-test decisions before they are made, and name the risks nobody else is naming
• Apply policy and employment law to get the best outcome for the business and our people
• Translate our existing global policy and countries' employment law into practical options the exec team can act on
• Advise on live, consequential cases: restructures, exits, performance situations, grievances, and investigations across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania
• Judge when a global standard should hold and when local context should shift how we apply it
• Flag where our current policy is getting in the way of a good business or people outcome
• Work on team dynamics and development
• Coach individual team members through interpersonal and cross-cultural dynamics
• Design and facilitate sessions that get the team moving when it is stuck
• Sharpen how people decisions get communicated
• Shape the messaging behind restructures, policy changes, and leadership transitions
• Edit and stress-test internal communications for clarity and consistency
• Advise on what to say, what to hold, and when to say it

Qualifications

• 8+ years in senior HR, people, or organizational development roles
• Strong writing skills
• Comfortable being the outside voice: direct with top leaders, discreet with what you hear
• Fits our Five Culture Tenets

Requirements

• Fully remote
• Approximately 10–12 hours per week, engaged on a consultancy basis
• Initial engagement with the intention to extend based on fit and need
• Compensation will be competitive and based on experience
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

Benefits

• Engaging, fulfilling, and growth-oriented work environment
• Opportunity to impact youth employment solutions in Africa

Company Description

Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn, and thrive in today’s economy by:

• Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary education
• Delivering livelihood boot camps for out-of-school youth, focusing on marginalized rural girls and young women

To date, more than 500,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling, and growth-oriented work environment.

Educate! is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community.