This is an ideal role for a mid-level professional who is passionate about education and a native speaker of Telugu. The perfect candidate has a strong grasp of
Work type: remote
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time
This is an ideal role for a mid-level professional who is passionate about education and a native speaker of Telugu. The perfect candidate has a strong grasp of Math and Science (up to the Class XII level) and professional experience in academic localization. Since you will be translating complex educational concepts from English to Telugu, you should have a sharp eye for pedagogical rigor and linguistic nuances, ensuring the content is accessible to students in public school systems. As a remote freelance position, this role offers excellent flexibility, allowing you to work from home while making a global impact on education. While listed as a freelance opportunity, the organization emphasizes a competitive compensation structure and a highly collaborative culture, including virtual team events. You will also have the unique opportunity to engage directly with state teachers to gather feedback, ensuring your work directly improves learning outcomes for millions of students. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Are a native Telugu speaker with professional experience translating or localizing academic text. * Have a solid understanding of Math and Science concepts through the high school level. * Are tech-savvy and familiar with Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools. * Can provide a portfolio or complete a task demonstrating your ability to maintain contextual meaning and clarity in translation.
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a fast-paced nonprofit on a mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We 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 INDIA
Khan Academy India aims to deliver a world-class user experience to learners in India that is locally relevant and are 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 and by working with large public school systems. Khan Academy is already available in Assamese, Hindi, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, and Punjabi.
ABOUT THE INDIA CONTENT TEAM
Our content team in India includes content creators who make thousands of awesome videos, articles, and practice questions aligned with the Indian curriculum to help both teachers and students. We are actively working on content localization in other regional languages as well, which means the content we co-create reaches a wider number (both nationally and globally), thereby quintupling the impact.
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This is a remote working opportunity. You will have the liberty to work from your home.
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