This role is ideal for a mid-tier education professional with at least 5 years of experience, specifically 3+ years in teacher training and instructional design
Work type: unknown
Location: Karnataka
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a mid-tier education professional with at least 5 years of experience, specifically 3+ years in teacher training and instructional design. Given the focus on government partnerships, you should be comfortable navigating public sector bureaucracy and managing a team of master trainers. Absolute fluency in **Kannada and English** is required to facilitate capacity-building initiatives across the state. This is a **12-month contract-based role** that offers a high-impact opportunity to scale digital education in Karnataka. While it is a "remote-friendly" workplace with flexible schedules, the position demands a significant field presence, with **travel across the state up to 50% of the time**. Although a non-profit, the organization emphasizes competitive compensation and a fast-paced, startup-like environment focused on mastery-based learning. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Are a bilingual educator (Kannada/English) who excels at public speaking and facilitating workshops. * Enjoy "rolling up your sleeves" to design training modules from scratch based on field data. * Have a background in government-led education projects or school systems. * Are prepared to complete a mandatory pre-work assignment (Slide deck and Video) as part of your application.
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 INDIASCHOOLTEAM
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:
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team like a for-profit.