Senior Business Analyst

About Imagine Worldwide

All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don’t have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide’s mission is to empower millions of children across Sub-Saharan Africa with the literacy and numeracy skills they need to reach their full potential. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Nine Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) across multiple countries and settings have shown dramatic learning gains, increased school attendance, and gender parity, all for less than $7 per child per year.

Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child-directed, tablet-based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are a California-based (United States) nonprofit organization operating across seven Sub-Saharan African countries. Learn more on our website.

About the Role

The Portfolio Office supports Imagine's leadership team to deliver scale through disciplined execution, strong governance rhythms, effective cross-functional coordination, and high-quality documentation that enables sound decision-making. As we grow, we need structured business analysis capability to strengthen portfolio execution and governance readiness.
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst on a six-month contract to provide business analysis support across portfolio projects and contribute to governance processes including board and executive preparation. This role reports to the Head of Portfolio and will work closely with the Country Executive Directors and Global functional leads.

Objectives

This assignment will provide structured business analysis capability to the Portfolio Office by:

• Supporting portfolio initiatives through high-quality analysis, documentation, and design artefacts
• Strengthening Imagine's operating rhythm through reliable coordination of governance forums (board meetings, board committees, executive forums), including readiness tracking and follow-through

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis Support Across Portfolio Initiatives

Provide business analysis capability across multiple portfolio projects, with emphasis on structure, documentation, clarity, and decision support.

• Translate ambiguous problems into clear problem statements, objectives, scope and deliverables
• Map stakeholders and support engagement across Global and Country teams
• Gather and synthesize inputs through interviews, workshops, working sessions, and document reviews
• Produce high-quality documentation including concept notes and project charters; process maps; Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), policy drafts, and template; RACI frameworks and Implementation plans
• Support options analysis and decision-making through trade-off analysis and recommendations; risk, issue, and constraint articulation; readiness assessments and gap analysis
• Prepare executive-ready outputs including briefing notes, decision memos, and executive summaries

Governance & Operating Rhythm Enablement

• Support the Portfolio Office and leadership with planning and coordination for Imagine's governance rhythms and executive forums to ensure readiness and disciplined follow-through.
• Coordinate and support preparation for governance meetings including board meetings ,executive leadership and Portfolio reviews, cross-functional alignment forums
• Develop and manage readiness checklists and trackers for meeting preparation
• Consolidate, format, quality-check and publish pre-read packs and supporting documentation
• Support agenda creation and topic sequencing in collaboration with meeting owners
• Capture minutes, decisions, and actions while maintaining action logs, decision registers and follow-up trackers
• Ensure effective follow-through by tracking deliverables, action closure, and escalations

Portfolio Tracking, Consolidation & Reporting

• Strengthen visibility and decision-making through structured tracking and reporting.
• Maintain portfolio trackers for initiatives, deliverables, milestones, and owners
• Consolidate updates across countries and functions into executive-ready formats
• Support development of lightweight dashboards and reporting templates
• Flag delivery risks, bottlenecks and dependencies early with recommended mitigations

Documentation Quality, Template Standardization & Knowledge Management

• Establish and maintain a structured documentation repository for portfolio deliverables
• Introduce standards and templates for consistency across memos, packs, trackers, and meeting minutes
• Conduct quality assurance of documentation for structure, logic, readability, and decision-grade quality
• Support version control and document governance discipline

Requirements

Specific skills (required)

• 7–12+ years as a Senior Business Analyst, PMO Analyst, Portfolio Analyst, or Strategy Execution role
• Demonstrated experience producing decision-grade documents and structured analysis
• Experience supporting senior leadership operating rhythms including governance preparation, meeting packs, and action tracking
• Multi-country environment experience preferred

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Location

The Senior Business Analyst must be based on the African continent, ideally close to the Central African Timezone. 

Applications close January 19th 2025.

 

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Imagine Worldwide is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.