CAREERS

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is a not-for-profit social enterprise building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment. We work in South Africa and Rwanda with many partners who are committed to results that can work at scale – including government, the private sector, civil society, and over 3.8 million youth.

Harambee is an anchor partner in a breakthrough platform called
SA Youth. It is part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention – a co-ordinated strategic national plan that sets out priority actions to address the youth unemployment challenge in South Africa. sayouth.mobi was launched by President Ramaphosa on Youth Day 2021 and it connects young people to opportunities at scale.

SA Youth brings together many partners to create a single national network to allow young people to access a wide selection of earning and learning opportunities, and for opportunity holders to access young engaged work-seekers – for free!

Our staff complement of over 350 motivated people continue to work both on-site and remotely in a fluid and vibrant environment to tackle the challenges of a country where over 50% of young people are unemployed.

Winner of the 2019 Skoll Award and 2019 Conscious Companies Award.

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CULTURE GUIDE

CURRENT VACANCIES

Our work is fast-paced and exciting, thanks to partnerships with key stakeholders such as The Presidency of South Africa, Business Unity South Africa, Youth Employment Service (YES), and others who share our mission. If you enjoy a fast pace, are change adept love diving into new tech, and thrive in a collaborative, flexible environment, then you’re exactly who we’re looking for. Our goal remains nothing short of changing the world!
Harambee has the capability and unique opportunity to achieve its founding vision of being a catalyst for significant and enduring positive change in tackling the global challenge of this generation. We invite you to Join us, and let’s make a real impact together.

Product Communications Specialist

The overall purpose of this role is to help stakeholders understand the value our products bring and boost engagement with them through clear, concise and audience
specific communication.

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Marketing Co-ordinator

The role provides strategic, creative, and project management support to the People Team and other departments at Harambee. It involves managing projects, creating content, and ensuring smooth communication to support marketing initiatives. The goal is to develop creative solutions and coordinate efforts across teams to meet operational needs and organisational objectives.

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Senior Data Analyst

The Harambee Software Development team is looking for an exceptional Data Analyst to join their dynamic team based in Johannesburg. The objective of the role of Data Analyst is to deep dive into our data, helping to maintain, understand and report on it. You will use data to solve
tough business problems, provide insights and in so doing, enable your colleagues to track progress and make decisions.

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Head: Data

The Head of Data plays a key role in ensuring that the company’s data assets are effectively managed and utilised to drive business success. The Head of data is critical in shaping a vision for the data strategy, architecture and organisational structure for the data team.

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