Training Coordinator - Karnataka

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a fast-paced, nonprofit startup on a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly. We’re building a library of world-class instructional and practice resources that empower learners. Whether they’re studying matrices, mitosis, or multivariable calculus, we want to offer students the resources to realize that they can learn anything. 

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY INDIA

Khan Academy India aims to deliver a world class user experience to learners in India that is locally relevant and is enabled by a strong on-the-ground team and operations. Our learning system is mastery based, which allows students to master key concepts at a pace that’s right for them before moving on to more challenging content. From serving under 500,000 learners in 2016, we are now serving almost 4 million learners a month across our websites, apps and youtube channels. These learners include both independent learners accessing us at home and teacher directed learners in schools.  Our focus is to reach the underserved by making our content accessible in local languages. Khan Academy is already available in Hindi, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi.

ABOUT THE INDIA SCHOOL TEAM 

In line with our focus on reaching the underserved, we partner with government school systems to improve student learning outcomes by enabling teachers and students to optimally utilize the tools and resources on the Khan Academy platform. From our government partnerships, we reached 1.2 million learners last year, partnering with 8,500+ schools across various states. Our goal is to expand our scale to reach over five million learners in three years. 

The Schools Team works in a lean and collaborative way with our government partners, developing strong implementation plans and providing support at every step of the way. We learn and constantly iterate by gathering feedback and through data-backed insights and efficacy studies. With a small team, we have managed to reach 21,000+ teachers and 1.2 million learners across various states. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

As part of our government programs, we support teachers and teacher mentors through training sessions, resources, webinars, and by enabling peer-to-peer sharing. The Schools Team is looking to bring an on-board Training Coordinator to design and deliver professional development initiatives for teachers, teacher mentors, and administrators as part of the team’s work with different government partners. 

This is a twelve-month contract-based role. 

In this role, you will: 

• Design and deliver synchronous and asynchronous modes of capacity-building initiatives for the partner programs 
• Manage a team of master trainers with fluency  in Kannada language and co-facilitate high-quality training sessions
• Identify and document the best practices & challenges  emerging from the field and proactively prepare learning material to scale/address them 
• Use data-informed decisions to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the training sessions conducted by the Khan Academy India team
• Work closely with Teacher Professional Development team to strengthen the existing teacher professional development framework, aligned with the team’s overall goals
• Coordination with the concerned departments for training program approval including getting the circulars/letters issued, working with the department for ensuring training execution etc.
• Work closely with Karnataka team to drive the program implementation in the state of Karnataka

ABOUT YOU

You would be a great fit for the role if you have:  

• 5+ years of experience including 3+ years working on designing & delivering  effective training programs for teachers and other education stakeholders,  ideally in a government setting
• Fluency in Kannada and English (reading, writing, and speaking) is mandatory
• Willingness to travel across the state to conduct training or schools visits, up to 50% of the time
• Prior teaching experience is preferred but not mandatory
• A passion for education and a desire to change the world
• A proven ability to work across teams with superior communication skills
• An entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and help the team get work done as we are growing 

PERKS AND BENEFITS

We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team like a for-profit.

• Competitive salaries
• Remote-friendly workplace, Flexible schedules 

LEARN MORE

• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• A glimpse of our team:  http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
• A glimpse of our content created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED8P8vchQJM
• Our Hinglish content in action: http://bit.ly/khanacademyyoutube 

HOW TO APPLY

• Attach your resume or LinkedIn URL in the space provided below. 
• For the Schools Team, we believe that reaching all learners will require us to work closely with teachers - and build their capacity to leverage the tools and insights available on Khan Academy to better support their students.  With this in mind, we request you complete the pre-work assignment here and submit your assignments below. 

TASK

• We request you complete the pre-work assignment here and submit your assignments below
• Please submit a link for the following in the task question below
• Task 1: Please submit a link (Google drive, slide, Canva etc.)  for the Slide deck
• Task 2: Please submit a link for the Video recording (Drive, Youtube, Canva, Loom etc.) 
• Make sure you have enabled view access for anyone with the link. 

Applications without pre-work assignments will not be considered. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.