Education & Research Consultant at Ubongo - Nigeria

Department: Education and Research

Job Description

• We’re looking for a dynamic, creative and flexible Education & Research consultant to ensure that we maintain the educational aspects of our content by conducting effective research with our pan-African audience.  
• You’ll work closely with our Head of Education, Education and Research Supervisor, Nigeria Country Representative and Pre-Production team to do curriculum research and development as well as user testing our products with our audience.

Responsibilities

• Research and user test Ubongo Learning’s content

Main Activities

• Ensure continuous and creative user testing processes for all content and products.
• Identify and reach out to partners for research
• Arrange user tests and focus groups with kids (including kids with disabilities, kids from rural communities), parents, teachers or other stakeholders
• Contribute to development of materials for testing.
• User testing our content at all stages of pre production, production and post-production
• Curriculum research and development

Main Activities:  

• Mapping our content to different African countries curricula on different platforms
• Research and keep record of the different African countries’ curricula for our target audience’s age group
• Assisting on curriculum design for our shows

Requirements
To be a match, you’ll need:

• A degree or qualification in Education, Early Childhood, Research or similar field.
• Experience teaching pre-school and primary school children, or conducting research with children
• Ability to learn new software and research techniques as needed
• Have experience performing surveys, focus groups or user testing
• Strong research and analytical skills
• Strong communication and outreach skills
• Have a significant knowledge of different educational curriculum format
• Self-motivated and possess a high level of responsibility to complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Make significant progress without direct supervision - you will be our first education team hire in the country!
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexibility in adjusting to new work related requirements as they arise.
• Ability to work remotely (experience with Asana, Slack and Google Drive is a bonus)
• Have a can-do attitude and readiness to learn on the job
• Fluent in English and Hausa. Knowledge of Yoruba or other Nigerian local languages is a major plus
• Be willing to wear many hats!