Position Overview
Educate!, the largest youth skills service provider in East Africa, is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and high-performing Policy Design and Learning Specialist to support education system reform and drive impactful program design at scale. As we continue to strengthen our influence across government systems and expand our reach to more youth, this role requires a professional who can combine strategic thinking, technical expertise in education, and strong stakeholder engagement.
The Policy Design and Learning Specialist will be responsible for shaping and refining program design, supporting policy alignment, and driving continuous learning to improve outcomes. This includes collaborating closely with government partners, supporting teacher training and capacity building efforts, contributing to advocacy initiatives, and ensuring programs are responsive, relevant, and impactful for students and youth.
This role demands someone who is proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented, with the ability to navigate complex systems, influence stakeholders, and translate insights into action. As we scale, this role is critical in ensuring our programs remain effective, aligned with national priorities, and deliver sustained impact.
What You’ll Do🌟
Government Workshop Co-Design and Coordination- 35%
- Lead the design of innovative and high quality materials for all government engagement workshops, including strategy documents, workshop agendas, concept notes, facilitation guides, education system analyses, talking points for policymakers, benchmarking reports and policy briefs.
- Participate in and support the design and facilitation of government engagement workshops, such as multi-stakeholder dialogues, learning experiences and co-design workshops, to influence government policy.
- Lead retrospective sessions post-workshops to assess what went well, what didn’t, and how future workshops can be improved.
- Develop clear next steps and action plans from workshop outcomes to inform and
- enhance future designs and materials.
- Establish a robust feedback loop to continually refine and elevate the quality and impact of materials and workshop designs.
- Provide a leadership role in quality assurance, ensuring that all materials are thoroughly vetted and meet the highest standards of accuracy, clarity, and effectiveness.
Digital Learning Design and Technology Systems- 30%
- Build and manage structured learning journeys on the LMS. Take approved curriculum content and translate it into a sequenced digital experience: organizing modules, setting progression logic, defining milestones, and configuring the platform so teachers move through content in an order that builds knowledge and skills incrementally. You own the learning architecture inside the platform, not just the content sitting in it.
- Apply instructional design principles to make LMS content accessible and actionable for teachers with varying subject knowledge. Use Tanzanian-context examples and activities that address diverse learning styles and backgrounds.
- Monitor LMS and virtual learning data, including usage, completion rates, drop-off points, and assessment performance, to identify gaps and inform improvements in content, sequencing, and platform configuration.
- Design and build structured learning journeys within platforms ensuring clear sequencing, milestones, and progression logic.
- Pull, analyze and translate data and reports from LMS and digital or virtual learning spaces to inform design decisions
- Design feature mock-ups, dashboards, and visual representations of design briefs to guide technical and product teams in developing data systems and platform features.
- Coordinate with technical and product teams to ensure platform features support effective learning, data tracking, and teacher engagement.
Policy, Standards & Systems Design - 20%
- Develop and maintain curriculum frameworks, policy guidelines, assessment standards, teacher orientation materials, and training curricula that align with government reforms and evidence from program implementation.
- Develop policy and curriculum frameworks that translate government education reform priorities into actionable implementation guidelines for schools and teachers. This includes drafting scope and sequence documents, syllabi, teacher orientation frameworks, training curricula, and assessment standards that can be adopted or adapted by ministry partners.
- Lead engagement with government and stakeholders through technical working groups, co-design sessions, and review meetings to ensure materials remain aligned with national standards and priorities.
- Turn program evidence into design decisions. Use data from classroom observations, teacher feedback, assessment results, and partner evaluations to identify gaps in existing frameworks and drive targeted revisions to policy documents, technical standards, and curriculum architecture.
- Design process management: Own and manage the end-to-end content design process by maintaining a central design tracker,deliverables, timelines and review stages, ensuring version control and quality assurance, and coordinating feedback loops to deliver high-quality outputs on time.
Curriculum Content Development & Co-Design - 15%
- Design and develop subject-specific curriculum materials including lesson plans, learner guides, textbooks, workbooks, teacher guides, and digital content aligned with Tanzanian standards (NECTA, TIE) and Educate!’s instructional approach.
- Develop content from both scratch and existing drafts, adapting to project needs (e.g., full textbooks, term lesson plans, teacher facilitation guides, or digital modules) while ensuring clarity, usability, and coherence.
- Facilitate structured co-design processes with government stakeholders, subject experts, and teachers to co-create, test, and refine materials. This includes leading working sessions, synthesizing feedback, and making clear decisions to ensure both quality and stakeholder ownership.
- Design project-based formative assessments aligned with PBA methodology, including student tasks, rubrics, and teacher guidance, to evaluate learners’ understanding and application of subject content.
Who You Are 🦸♀️🦸♂️
You bring a strong user-centric mindset, using feedback to design relevant solutions that meet user needs. You have experience driving behavior change in collaboration with government partners and building strong relationships across teams and senior stakeholders. You are a decisive and adaptable problem-solver, able to navigate complex environments, secure buy-in, and lead effective implementation. You hold a relevant degree and align with Educate!’s cultural tenets, Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here
Terms
The location is in Dar es salaam, Tanzania with frequent travel to program locations.
What We Offer 
- A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team.
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Learning & growth opportunities
Application Process: Rolling basis, interviews happening soon!
