Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. E...

Read more about this company

What You’ll Do

System Architecture and Automation (40%)

• Workflow Design: Identify operational pain points and lead the charge in redesigning these workflows to be faster, simpler, and more effective
• AI & Low-Code Building: Lead the implementation of AI agents and low-code solutions (e.g. n8n, Zapier) to increase efficiency and scalability
• Operational Infrastructure: Ensuring global infrastructure (office procurement, physical mail, etc.) can run on autopilot with minimal executive oversight
• Scalability Audits: Conduct regular complexity audits to purge redundant SOPs and legacy systems, ensuring our tech stack remains lean, integrated, and high-performing

Financial Systems Building and Integrity (35%)

• Accounts Payable Optimization: Own the end-to-end Accounts Payable architecture. Implement automated coding and approval routing to ensure accuracy and compliance
• CRM-to-Finance Integration: Architect the logic that keeps CRM donor records perfectly synced with bank deposits
• Strategic Governance: Design the tracking systems and dashboards that keep the global finance team on schedule, ensuring deadlines are met through system-driven triggers
• Team Upskilling & QC: Transition the finance team from "execution" to "audit” by training them to perform high-level Quality Control on automated outputs and ensuring they have the technical literacy to manage an AI-augmented stack

Special Projects and Executive Support (25%)

• Strategic Leadership Support: Drive complex non-routine projects for the executive leadership team to streamline operational efficiency
• Virtual Assistant (VA) Optimization: Treat our VA team as a scalable resource, by helping design the workflows they follow, setting KPIs for their success, and managing their output
• Cross-Functional Efficiency: Identify opportunities where internal efficiency is lagging and deploy rapid-response systems or automation to bridge the gap.

Who You Are

• You are proactive in identifying and prioritizing improvement opportunities through listening to team needs and spotting pain points
• You’re excited to experiment with automation tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Zapier, Google Workspace integrations) and view AI as a core component of modern operational excellence
• You’re able to organize data, build formulas, and use spreadsheets to streamline operations
• You are a natural teacher who can translate technical complexity into user-friendly tools, bringing the rest of the team along and upskilling them to manage these systems independently.
• You have an undergraduate degree and 3–5 years work experience in Operations, Systems Management, or a high-level Administrative role where you didn't just follow processes, you built them.

• Identify operational pain points and lead the charge in redesigning these workflows to be faster, simpler, and more effective
• Lead the implementation of AI agents and low-code solutions (e.g. n8n, Zapier) to increase efficiency and scalability
• Ensuring global infrastructure (office procurement, physical mail, etc.) can run on autopilot with minimal executive oversight
• Conduct regular complexity audits to purge redundant SOPs and legacy systems, ensuring our tech stack remains lean, integrated, and high-performing
• Own the end-to-end Accounts Payable architecture. Implement automated coding and approval routing to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Architect the logic that keeps CRM donor records perfectly synced with bank deposits
• Design the tracking systems and dashboards that keep the global finance team on schedule, ensuring deadlines are met through system-driven triggers
• Transition the finance team from "execution" to "audit” by training them to perform high-level Quality Control on automated outputs and ensuring they have the technical literacy to manage an AI-augmented stack
• Drive complex non-routine projects for the executive leadership team to streamline operational efficiency
• Treat our VA team as a scalable resource, by helping design the workflows they follow, setting KPIs for their success, and managing their output
• Identify opportunities where internal efficiency is lagging and deploy rapid-response systems or automation to bridge the gap.

• Proactive identification and prioritization of improvement opportunities
• Experimentation with automation tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Zapier, Google Workspace integrations)
• Organizing data, building formulas, and using spreadsheets
• Translating technical complexity into user-friendly tools
• Upskilling teams to manage systems independently

• Undergraduate degree
• 3–5 years work experience in Operations, Systems Management, or a high-level Administrative role where processes were built