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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt\">Job Title: </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Learning Architecture Lead (Ubongo Learning Lab)</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Department: Digital Product</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Reports To: Chief Product Officer</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Duration: Six Months</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt\">UBONGO is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localised, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 62 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s </span><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/ubongokids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ubongo Kids,</span></a><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt\"> </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@AkiliAndMe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akili and Me</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@NuzoandNamia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nuzo and Namia</a>, </span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt\">currently air in 23 countries across Africa in multiple languages. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">POSITION OBJECTIVE </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic\">(overall purpose of position)</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ubongo Learning Lab is an ambitious learning app for children aged 3–9, designed to expand foundational literacy, numeracy skills in low-connectivity environments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project includes flexible activity engines, adaptive learning pathways, and AI-driven interactions. This proof-of-concept sets the foundation for a broader Preschool app ecosystem.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Own the learning system architecture, bridging curriculum, adaptive logic, AI interactions, data, and dynamic/adaptive UX research. Act as Pedagogical Product Owner, providing authoritative guidance on all learning-related decisions and ensure the development agency and internal teams implement robust, adaptive, and interactive learning experiences in line with educational goals</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">RESPONSIBILITIES</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Learning System Architecture &amp; Progression Design</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Define learning progression and adaptivity (ages 3–9), including literacy, numeracy, and foundational skills, drawing upon the Ubongo Child’s Learning Journey Curriculum and inventory of educational resources</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Translate curriculum into activity types, mastery rules, branching logic, feedback, and scaffolding</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Define learning progression map for ages 3–9 (literacy, numeracy, foundational skills)</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Curriculum, Content, and Learning Design Oversight</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Guide all curriculum content, including videos, off-screen prompts, and interactive activities, ensuring alignment with learning pathways, adaptivity rules and pedagogical goals</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Guide and shape all curriculum content, including videos, off-screen prompts, and interactive activities, ensuring alignment with learning pathways, adaptivity rules and pedagogical goals</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Resources and activities aligned with learning journey roadmap</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Product, Platform, and Activity Engine Direction</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Guide selection, design, and integration of activity engines (build vs buy)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Identify hard-to-reverse design decisions and MVP/demo scope, in collaboration with Product Manager and Chief Product Officer</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Recommendations for activity engines (build vs buy)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Inputs to demo-ready MVP and phased roadmap</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">AI, Adaptivity, and Learning Intelligence Governance</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Specify rules and guardrails for AI-driven learning components, ensuring alignment with learning pathways</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Define learning-relevant data strategy: collection, analysis, and use for progression, adaptivity, and AI-driven feedback</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">AI interaction rules and guardrails</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Learning-relevant data schema for adaptive decision-making</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Product Collaboration and Cross-Functional Support</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support internal Product Owner/PM in understanding pedagogical priorities</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Collaborate with: Education/curriculum teams, UX/UI designers, Specialist dynamic/adaptive UX researchers, Development agency (ensuring capability to implement adaptive/AI interactions)</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Program Oversight and Continuity</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Provide continuity and oversight throughout phased development to mitigate risk during leadership transitions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Recruit and manage staff/contractors to fill resource/activity gaps and curate pathways</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Companywide Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Exemplify Ubongoers principles and norms</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Deliverables</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Learning progression map for ages 3–9 (literacy, numeracy, foundational skills)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Detailed activity logic specifications (mastery, feedback, adaptivity, branching)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">AI interaction rules and guardrails</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Learning-relevant data schema for adaptive decision-making</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Recommendations for activity engines (build vs buy)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Inputs to demo-ready MVP and phased roadmap</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Resources and activities aligned with learning journey roadmap</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Dynamic/adaptive UX research plan and insights</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic\">(Minimum knowledge, skills and behaviors  to perform the job)</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold\">Educational</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Advanced understanding of child development and evidence-based pedagogy</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold\">Experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Proven experience designing impactful adaptive or semi-adaptive learning products, including native apps and online platforms</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Experience in dynamic branching flows and AI/interactive learning components</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Experience collaborating with external development agencies and guiding them on implementing complex learning interactions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Experience navigating the practical and cultural challenges involved in creating localised resources for multiple countries and languages</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-size: 10pt\">UBONGO provides equal employment opportunities to all its employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the laws of the country we are operating in.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">JOB SCAM WARNING</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 10pt\">Our organization upholds a strict commitment to a fair, unbiased hiring process through BambooHR or very qualified recruitment agencies and shortlisting decisions are based solely on candidates' qualifications, skills and experience relevant to the position. </span><span style=\"color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 10pt\">Beware of any individuals claiming to have influence over our hiring decisions or requesting favors in exchange for guaranteed shortlisting or employment opportunities. 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