Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

Designer

• Work closely with stakeholders, young people, and employers to improve products and services
• Design solutions that increase access to opportunities for young people
• Contribute to seamless experiences across user journeys
• Develop personas, journeys, wireframes, and prototypes
• Test and iterate designs based on user feedback
• Collaborate with analysts and developers on requirements
• Maintain design standards and best practices
• Support senior designers on larger initiatives
• Stay current with design trends and tools
• Conduct user research and engage with stakeholders to inform design decisions
• Collaborate to define and refine product and service requirements
• Understand relevant tools and systems to inform practical design solutions
• Synthesize research and data into actionable design artefacts
• Track design success through metrics and iterate to improve outcomes
• Contribute to maintaining and enhancing products and services
• Plan and take ownership of design tasks within projects
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Communicate design ideas and decisions clearly to stakeholders
• Manage delivery and stay accountable for progress
• Continuously grow your design craft and stay updated with best practices
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and components aligned to design systems

Mid-Level Product and Service Designer

Business Analyst

• Shape and evolve the product roadmap for your area of ownership.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to ensure alignment across the broader product ecosystem.
• Engage with stakeholders to clarify needs, challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Analyse problems and opportunities to inform product and service direction.
• Convert business needs and experiment outcomes into structured, high‑quality requirements.
• Lead refinement sessions and create clear, actionable software tickets.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and assumptions — both business and technical.
• Define acceptance criteria and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Support internal teams in adopting new tools, processes, and ways of working.

Product Manager, Business Analyst

• Analyse large and complex datasets (including labour market and survey data) to uncover insights
• Translate numbers into compelling stories through reports, proposals, presentations, and visuals
• Contribute to research outputs such as working papers, funder reports, evaluations, and concept notes
• Coordinate and support research studies, surveys, and grants from start to finish
• Respond to data-driven questions from across the business
• Collaborate cross-divisionally to shape strategy, partnerships, and innovation in youth employment
• Help build Harambee’s growing body of knowledge on South Africa’s labour market

Research & Insights Analyst

• Partner with stakeholders to define, clarify and solve complex business problems
• Perform deep‑dive analysis across multiple data sources
• Write advanced SQL queries (CTEs, window functions, joins) to generate insights
• Translate insights into clear, development‑ready specifications (user stories, data flows, functional specs)
• Work closely with Agile delivery teams to bring solutions to life
• Support the evolution and maintenance of the product roadmap
• Help stakeholders understand, adopt and trust the solutions we build

Technical Business Analyst – Recommendation Engine

Brand Ambassador

• Supporting the planning and roll-out of exciting events like roadshows, conferences, and exhibitions
• Coordinating logistics and handling email correspondence
• Getting marketing collateral out there and ensuring the brand shines
• Championing sayouth.mobi — onboarding new users onto the platform
• Being go-to person for young job seekers who need guidance and support
• Putting together reports capturing insights and stories from events
• Spotting new opportunities to collaborate with strategic partners
• Supporting the rollout of the Youth Voices Programme and other initiatives for young people

• Work closely with business and young people to identify new product opportunities and improve existing products and services.
• Design solutions that drive impact and increase the likelihood of young people finding learning and earning opportunities near them.
• Work across different channels and touchpoints to co-create the best engagement interventions for young people at each stage of their journey.
• Use human-centered design principles and tools to develop actionable artefacts — personas, user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Work closely with analyst and development teams to turn design requirements into clear specifications documents.
• Set design and experience standards, building on existing interface elements to raise the overall quality across our products and services.
• Lead and conduct user research activities — including interviews, contextual inquiry, and surveys — synthesising findings into actionable design recommendations.
• Plan and facilitate usability testing sessions to validate design decisions, identify friction points, and refine solutions before and after release.
• Define success metrics for design initiatives and track performance post-launch, using data and feedback to iterate and continuously improve products and services.
• Build design thinking capability throughout the business and with external partner organisations through thought leadership, facilitation of collaborative workshops, and active participation in the broader design and social impact community.
• Mentor mid-level and junior designers, actively contributing to a culture of craft and excellence within the team.

Senior Product and Service Designer

Frontend Engineer

• Design and develop exceptional front‑end features using React, modern UI frameworks, and web best practices
• Collaborate closely with designers, product teams, and back‑end engineers to build elegant, scalable solutions
• Lead by example — mentor junior developers and contribute to improving engineering standards
• Champion clean code, accessibility, reusability, and maintainability
• Drive improvements in performance, reliability, and application experience
• Bring innovative ideas that push our platform forward

Senior Frontend Developer

Data Engineer

• Work as a technical specialist, aiding colleagues in the creation, maintenance, and use of the data stack.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business and data goals.
• Design data solutions for real-time and batch environments.
• Document planning, implementation, and operations.
• Select and integrate big data tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with analysts, testers, developers, and business analysts.
• Advise on data platform use, including analysis, security, architecture, and modelling.
• Ensure infrastructure supports large volumes of transactional data.
• Implement data retention policies and monitor performance.
• Build data structures and pipelines for storage and transformation.
• Ensure accurate data availability for downstream use.
• Provide ad hoc data analysis to support business insights.
• Support data validation and quality assurance for dashboards and reports.

Senior Data Engineer

QA Engineer

• Review system requirements and test for functionality, performance, and security
• Build and maintain testing frameworks and methodologies
• Develop and execute test cases using best‑practice design patterns
• Manage test planning, regression testing, test reporting, and documentation
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to create test data
• Evaluate testing tools and run proof‑of‑concepts
• Communicate outcomes clearly to stakeholders
• Report and track defects through resolution