Remote Contract (overlap with UTC−5 to UTC+3 expected)

Role Overview

Tabiya’s Programs & Research team is looking for a Program Associate to help manage and coordinate our growing portfolio of projects across multiple countries and workstreams, while also providing hands-on analytical support to the team. This is an org-wide role supporting delivery across our three core areas: Compass (AI-powered career guidance platforms), our open-source livelihoods taxonomy and classification infrastructure, and Horizon (labor market analytics and matching tools). The person in this role will work closely with the Head of Programs and cross-functional teams in Research, Product, and Partnerships, to keep complex projects on track and ensure our research and program work is rigorous, well-documented, and actionable.

We are a small team working at the frontier of AI, open-source infrastructure, and global employment – operating across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia with government partners, multilateral institutions, and civil society. The Program Associate will need to bring strong organizational instincts, excellent written communication, and genuine enthusiasm for the mission to thrive in this role.

About Tabiya

Tabiya builds open-source software and standards to unlock economic opportunity for all. Originating from the University of Oxford, we are a non-profit organization operating at the intersection of digital public infrastructure, AI, and global development. Our initial work in Sube-Saharan Africa has expanded to Latin America, with active exploration in additional geographies. We were selected for the inaugural Google.org GenAI accelerator, recognizing our approach to AI-powered employment tools for low- and middle-income countries.

We partner with government employment services, NGOs, and job platforms to create pathways that recognize skills from all work, including informal and traditionally unseen activities. Our mission is to make labor markets more efficient, equitable, and inclusive.

Key Responsibilities

Program coordination. The Program Associate is the operational backbone of Tabiya’s Programs & Research team, keeping our projects on track.  This includes:

  • Maintaining shared project trackers, milestone logs, and dashboards that give the team and leadership a clear, current picture of progress and risks.
  • Managing timelines and deadlines for deliverables across government pilots, partner engagements, and internal research projects – flagging risks early and helping reprioritize when priorities conflict.
  • Synthesizing field feedback, pilot findings, and partner input into clear summaries that inform product and program decisions.
  • Making sure that information flows between Programs, Technology, and Partnerships, including translating field feedback into inputs the engineering team can act on, and ensuring projects have clear next steps and owners.

Partner and stakeholder communication. You will serve as a reliable point of coordination with external partners, including World Bank teams, government ministries, and implementation partners. This includes:

  • Preparing agendas, taking notes, and tracking follow-up actions from partner meetings.
  • Drafting and sending communications to partners and stakeholders to share updates, request inputs, or coordinate logistics , with progressively more autonomy as the role develops.
  • Noticing when partner relationships or project situations need more senior attention and flagging these proactively.

Documentation and attention to detail. Tabiya runs on good documentation. We expect high standards across all work outputs. This includes:

  • Keeping project files, partner notes, and research outputs organized and accessible for the team and for grant reporting.
  • Reviewing deliverables and documents for accuracy, clarity, and completeness before they go to partners or funders.
  • Assigning and following up on outstanding tasks so that the status of projects and next steps are always clear.

Analytical support. You will work alongside the Research Lead and Economists on substantive analytical tasks, including: Conducting desk research and literature reviews on labor market topics or country-specific workforce contexts relevant to Tabiya’s programs.

  • Turning findings from pilot programs, user research, and field feedback into clear memos or briefs for internal decisions or external reporting.
  • Supporting data collection and organization tasks, including maintaining structured records of program metrics, user feedback, and evaluation findings.
  • Helping prepare research outputs, grant reports, and presentation materials that draw on both quantitative data and qualitative program experience.
  • Performing light data cleaning, reshaping, and basic analysis in support of taxonomy and classification tasks, including working with structured datasets to check coverage, flag anomalies, or prepare inputs for further processing.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (or higher) and 2–5 years of experience in program management, project coordination, or operational support, ideally in an international development, technology, nonprofit, or research organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing deadlines, keeping stakeholders informed, and projects moving forward.
  • Excellent written communication skills. You can draft a clear partner update, a crisp meeting summary, and a well-structured internal memo, and you understand when each is appropriate.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where processes are being built in real time; you create order rather than wait for it.
  • High attention to detail, with the conscientiousness to catch errors in documents, trackers, and partner-facing materials before they reach external stakeholders.
  • Intellectual curiosity and comfort with research tasks: you are willing to dig into a literature base, synthesize findings across sources, and produce a clear written output from messy inputs.

Preferred

  • Experience working in or with low- and middle-income country contexts, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America, through employment, research, or fieldwork.
  • Familiarity with labor market, workforce development, or employment programs, including skills frameworks, youth employment, or social protection.
  • Experience supporting grant reporting, donor communications, or fundraising
  • Comfort working alongside engineering and data science teams. You don’t need to write code, but you can read a technical brief, ask smart questions, and translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) frameworks or impact measurement in a program context.

Application Process

Please apply by filling out this form. We will review applications on a rolling basis and follow up with all applicants. If you have questions, reach out to jobs@tabiya.org.

We encourage applications from candidates based in the regions where we work, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. We value lived and professional experience in these contexts.