• Assist Innovation Partners in planning and structuring innovation experiments, identifying key learning questions, and selecting relevant indicators.
• Support the integration of youth perspectives into projects, programs, and processes.
• Conduct regular check-ins to help Innovation Partners reect on successes and failures, derive key insights, and foster a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Documentation & Reporting
• Document discussion points and insights from check-in calls with Innovation partners
• Write structured reports capturing key learnings, reections, and your own analysis on learning progress.
• Document insights from coaching sessions for sharing with DOT and partner organizations.
• Support innovation partners in periodic innovation storytelling and reporting
• Peer Learning
• Organize and facilitate learning activities, including Community of Practice sessions and workshops.
• Support peer exchange and knowledge-sharing among Innovation Partners to enhance collaboration and collective problem-solving.
• Professional Development & Collaboration
• Attend training sessions and meetings with the Learning & Innovation Team to strengthen coaching, facilitation, communication, and research skills.
• Participate in regular meetings with the Youth Coordinator to share updates, track progress, and rene coaching strategies.
• Collaborate with project ofcers to align on project implementation plans and ensure milestones are met.
• Contribute to Long-term Learning
• Curate and analyse insights and lessons from Innovation Partners and Projects, contributing to wider learning efforts within the project.

Criteria:

• We seek individuals who are curious, adaptable, and facilitative in their approach to
• learning. As an Innovation Coach, your role is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions, foster reection, and guide Innovation Partners through their innovation journeys. This requires active listening, openness to learning, and a commitment to supporting organizations as they experiment, adapt, and rene their ideas.
• A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, Engineering, Agriculture, Education, IT.
• Experience in coaching impact driven initiatives is an added advantage.
• Proven experience in qualitative research processes including data collection analysis and reporting.
• Strong networking and partnership-building skills with a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
• A curious and analytical thinker with the ability to extract valuable insights and key learnings to inform decision-making and project improvement.
• Familiarity in working and collaborating online using digital tools.
• Prociency in English is required, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, and French is highly desirable, and candidates with these language skills are encouraged to apply.
• Membership in the DOT Youth Network (required).