Jobs at Educate!

Leads Uganda’s finance and operations functions, overseeing financial controls, reporting, budgeting, cash flow, donor reporting, procurement, logistics, compliance, audits, risk management, and statutory obligations. The role manages finance, operations, and procurement teams; improves systems and processes; ensures effective field support; and partners with organizational leaders on business decisions. Candidates need progressive finance and procurement experience, people-management experience, professional accounting credentials, donor-funded and multicurrency operations experience, and strong systems orientation.

Provides senior, part-time people advisory support to the CEO and executive team. Advises on organizational design, succession, restructures, exits, performance, grievances, investigations, employment law, policy application, team dynamics, and cross-cultural collaboration across four African countries. Coaches leaders, facilitates team sessions, and shapes communications for sensitive people decisions. The role is fully remote, consultancy-based, and approximately 10–12 hours per week.

Own release readiness and hands-on exploratory, functional, and regression testing. Define QA standards, test plans, acceptance criteria, bug frameworks, and quality gates. Evaluate and implement end-to-end testing tools, maintain automated test suites, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, track coverage, and promote developer accountability for unit and integration testing. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering stakeholders to identify risks, improve processes, and ensure reliable production releases.

The Senior Development Manager will drive fundraising goals through relationship management, proposal development, donor visits, and strategic projects support, contributing significantly to Educate!’s revenue strategy and operations.

Lead the organization's finance function: manage a small finance team, implement and improve accounting controls and systems (QuickBooks), prepare monthly management and audited financial statements, oversee payroll, AP/AR, reconciliations, budgeting and variance analysis, ensure statutory compliance in Tanzania, coordinate audits, and provide financial guidance to program and senior leadership.