Project Associate - Maharashtra

Khan Academy is a fast-paced, nonprofit 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.

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 now serve over 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 English, Hindi, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Odia, Assamese, and Punjabi.

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 have reached over 8.4 million learners, partnering with 22,000+ schools across various states. Our goal is to continue expanding our scale and deepen impact across partner states. 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.

Khan Academy India is looking for a passionate individual to join our growing Schools Team as a Project Associate consultant to support our programme with the government school system in Maharashtra. The role will be based in Pune. In this role, you will be working with the Program Lead and will be responsible for driving the implementation of the Khan Academy programme in the state, in collaboration with the Department of School Education, Maharashtra. You will also work closely with Khan Academy India’s Content team, Partner Operations, Teacher Professional Development, and Data and Efficacy teams to ensure high-quality implementation of our programme.

This is a twelve-month contract-based role.

Support programme implementation: Work with the Program Lead to help support the implementation of the Khan Academy learning platform across government schools in Maharashtra.

• Take ownership of work streams and deliver on the pre-agreed goals.
• Deliver and support in executing training to education officials (Khan Academy program mentors/administrative cadre) and teachers on a regular basis.
• Follow up on training implementation and unearth insights and challenges to strengthen the program for all teachers continuously.
• Create engaging resources that support effective implementation on the ground.

• Regularly conduct field visits (3–4/week) and have regular touchpoints with the officers and teachers to generate insights from the schools that will help the Khan Academy team identify strategic levers to increase adoption and deepen usage of Khan Academy.
• Communication with stakeholders: Set up communication channels and drive creative communication strategies for teachers, principals, and other officers to share programmatic goals and updates. Create high-quality nudges that will drive action and clarity for teachers and schools.
• Manage relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with administration officials which include nodal officers, state resource persons, district-level officers, and school stakeholders.
• Manage knowledge effectively: Ensure that all state discussions are documented in a standard format and keep key stakeholders (internal and external) in the loop.
• Build our learning muscle by analyzing qualitative feedback from the state systems.
• Collaborate with the rest of the teams at Khan Academy India to ensure timely and successful delivery of our program and services.
• Provide any other support, as needed, for the programme.

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

• Someone with 3+ years of relevant work experience. Having been an educator or having worked with government schools in Maharashtra is an added advantage.
• Fluent in Marathi and English (spoken and written).
• Someone with a strong collaborative mindset with an ability to build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders, especially senior government officers.
• Able to navigate through complex situations comfortably and make informed decisions aligned with the shared goals between partners and Khan Academy.
• Someone with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage a variety of tasks simultaneously.
• Someone with an excellent ability to document information from multiple sources and present it in a consumable format for others in English and Marathi.
• Comfortable working with data – you are skilled at working with large volumes of data, identifying trends, and drawing evidence-based conclusions. You are equally comfortable analyzing qualitative insights and adjusting partnership plans accordingly.
• A great communicator – you can address different audiences using audience-appropriate language to communicate clearly and efficiently in multiple formats, including email, written documents, digital presentations, and verbal conversations.
• A quick learner – you immerse yourself in new problems and quickly get up to speed.
• Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action.
• Willing to roll up your sleeves and help the team get work done as we grow.
• Passionate about education and have a strong desire to change the world for the better.
• Comfortable being based out of Nashik, Nagpur, or Pune and traveling regularly across different schools and districts in the state of Maharashtra.

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

• Competitive salaries
• Remote-friendly workplace, flexible schedules
• Health and wellness benefits
• Professional development focus
• Paid time off and parental leave

• 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

• Attach your resume or LinkedIn URL in the space provided below.
• Please address the below-mentioned tasks and attach your response in the space provided below.

There are two assignment tasks required to be completed as part of the application process:

1. Task 1 - Data Analysis
2. Task 2 - Marathi writing skills

Link - Task 1 and Task 2

The instructions for both the assignments are in their corresponding hyperlinks.

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.