Training Coordinator - Telangana

Hyderabad, Telangana
Permanent
Full-time

9 days ago

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMYKhan 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 empowers 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 INDIAKhan 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 SCHOOLS TEAMIn 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 2.1 million learners last year, partnering with 70,000+ 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 1 Lakh+ teachers and 2.1 million learners across various states.ABOUT THE ROLEAs 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 12-month contract-based role.In this role, you would:

Design and deliver synchronous and asynchronous modes of capacity-building initiatives for the partner programs
Manage a team of master trainers with fluency in Telugu language and co-facilitate high-quality training sessions
Regularly conduct field visits to schools, district offices (3-4 per month) to understand field level challenges, and generate insights to increase adoption and deepen usage of Khan Academy
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 with KA state team and the state nodal officers to help support the implementation of the Khan Academy learning platform across government schools in Telangana
Provide any other support, as needed, for the programme.

ABOUT YOUYou 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 Telugu 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

PERKS AND BENEFITSWe may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team competitively

Competitive salaries
A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
Remote work friendly, i.e. option to work from home; flexible schedules

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HOW TO APPLY

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TASK

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

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.Create a Job AlertInterested in building your career at Khan Academy? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email. Create alert

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