ABOUT GENERATION
At Generation, we believe in the power of employment to change lives. We are a global nonprofit organization that supports adults to achieve economic mobility through employment. Generation trains and places adult learners of all ages into careers that are otherwise inaccessible, working in partnership with governments, employers, and other system actors. We also conduct original research and share data insights on high-priority global workforce transition topics to inform decision-making by workforce system stakeholders. Launched in 2015, Generation comprises a global hub (Generation You Employed, or GYE) and a network of in-country affiliates. To date, the network has 150,000+ graduates and 23,000+ employers across 50 professions and 17 countries.
When learners join Generation, 91% are unemployed, of which nearly half are long-term unemployed. Three months after completing our program, graduates have a 78% job placement rate, rising to 88% within six months. Of our employed graduates, 79% are hired by repeat employers who have previously hired Generation graduates, and 89% are in jobs directly related to the profession for which we have trained them. Employed graduates immediately earn an average of 3-4X their previous earnings. Two to five years after graduation, 77% of our alumni from upper-middle income countries continue to meet their daily financial needs and 63% can save for the future. To date, Generation’s global graduates have earned more than $1.9 billion in wages. Generation graduates typically have a secondary school background, 52% are female, 28% have dependents, and the majority identify with underrepresented communities in their country.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Growth & Analytics team sits within Program Delivery Support (PDS) and works at the intersection of market intelligence, portfolio strategy, and country-level growth decisions. The team’s mandate is to help Generation grow, embedded in the real decisions that country and regional teams are navigating every day.
The Manager reports to the Global Lead, Growth and Analytics, and supports four core areas:
- New Professions & Portfolio Diversification: AI Job Market Agent, Professions Demand Diagnostic (PDD) support, market validation, and new profession opportunities (skilled trades, healthcare, upskilling pathways). Cross-country portfolio alignment for individual country initiatives to be captured and scaled.
- AI & Job Market Intelligence: AI exposure analysis, hiring trends, and strategic advisory to Global and Country teams. Shared narrative for leaders to engage funders and articulate how professions are evolving.
- Growth, Scale & Strategic Analytics: Cost-per-learner organization and analysis, Impact Share calculation, PDS KPIs, on-demand and scale analyses per program / country in support of the 500K graduates by 2030 ambition.
- Program Delivery Models: Frameworks for TSP, TVET, and government partnerships — both for countries earlier in the journey and those already in partnership models seeking to scale further.
The Manager, Growth & Analytics, will lead on two of the team’s four core areas (New Professions & Portfolio Diversification and AI & Job Market Intelligence), while partnering closely with the Global lead on Growth, Scale & Strategic Analytics and Program Delivery Models. The work involves close collaboration with Regional and Country teams as they explore new programs, assess labor market dynamics, and make portfolio decisions in fast-moving environments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
New Professions & Portfolio Diversification
- Own and maintain the AI Agent for Job Market Analysis, continuously improving its usefulness, performance, and adoption among country and global teams assessing new profession opportunities.
- Support countries through the Professions Demand Diagnostic (PDD) process — conducting market validation, stress-testing assumptions, and helping build robust business cases for new programs.
- Conduct research on cross-country market dynamics, emerging job trends, and sectoral demand to identify new profession opportunities (including skilled trades, healthcare, and upskilling pathways).
- Support cross-country portfolio alignment so that individual country initiative on new professions can be captured, synthesized, and scaled across the network.
- Help address the three areas that most often slow progress on new professions:
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- Market intelligence: Identifying which professions have genuine employer demand.
- Funding: Building the analytical case for investment in new programs, including support for industry-level or profession-agnostic fundraising.
- Process: Collaborating with global teams to understand where the PDD and PDC (Program Development Committee) pathway could be more efficient, and helping establish a faster, more replicable process.
- Develop case studies and insights on emerging professions to support decision-making across the network.
AI & Job Market Intelligence
- Maintain and evolve Generation’s AI Preparedness Index and AI exposure analyses, keeping them current as the labor market shifts.
- Monitor hiring trends and labor market dynamics to inform strategic conversations with Global, Regional and Country teams.
- Develop research and insights on how professions are evolving in the context of AI, shaping a shared narrative and assessing implications for portfolio sustainability, program viability, and priorities.
- Support the Global Lead in engaging key stakeholders, funders, and country teams to apply these insights to decision-making, portfolio choices, and growth discussions.
- Contribute to Generation’s thought leadership on the future of work, in collaboration with the Data & Impact and Communications teams.
Growth, Scale & Strategic Analytics and Program Delivery Models
The Manager will support the Global Lead across these two areas by providing analytical input as needed. This may include contributing to cost-per-learner, impact share, and scale analyses across existing and new programs, supporting assessments of delivery models (e.g., TSP, TVET, and government partnerships), and incorporating country perspectives to ensure analyses reflect operational realities.
ABOUT YOU
Experience & Skills
- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience, with a track record of delivering analytical or advisory work in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional language skills relevant to Generation’s markets are an asset.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency in analytical tools (e.g., Excel, PowerBI, or equivalent); experience with labor market data platforms (e.g., TalentNeuron, LinkedIn Talent Insights, others) is a plus.
- A collaborative working style: able to dig into real country decisions alongside regional and country teams, contribute meaningfully without taking over, and build trust through presence and follow-through rather than polished deliverables alone.
- Ability to engage senior stakeholders (e.g., country or regional leadership, external funders) with credibility and adaptability, and the confidence to build those relationships progressively over time.
- Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the brief is often shaped through the work itself — and where judgment matters as much as technical skill.
- The role is fully remote and global. Based within three hours of Eastern Time (ET) or willing to flex their working hours to enable effective communication with our Americas‑based teams.
Preferred
- Experience working on labor market analysis, workforce development, or economic development, ideally in an international or multi-country context.
- Familiarity with AI and labor market trends and their implications for workforce development programs is a strong plus.
- We have a preference for candidates based in SAMEA or Europe to diversify the team’s time zone coverage and strengthen proximity to key regions.
Ways of Working
- Partner directly with country and regional teams on live decisions (incl., market due diligence, portfolio trade-offs, funding pitches) contributing analytical depth to real choices, not hypothetical ones.
- Be responsive when it matters most: when a country is under time pressure, prioritize fast and focused support over comprehensive reports.
- Join calls, co-facilitate portfolio reviews, and be present with country teams at critical moments — building credibility through presence and follow-through.
- Communicate insights clearly across diverse audiences, from senior leadership to country teams, adapting tone and depth to what each audience needs to act.
