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 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 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, Bangla and Punjabi.
ABOUT THE INDIA CONTENT TEAM
Our content team in India includes the 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 multiple regional languages as well, which means the content you help create will reach a wider number (both nationally and globally), thereby multiplying the impact.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Math expert whose native language is Tamil and is fluent in English. If you are proud of your mathematical abilities, and are well versed in both English as well as in Tamil, then this role is tailor made for you. This is a 6 weeks contract position translating into 20-25 hours per week. This is a remote friendly role, based out of India.
In this role you would:
- Evaluate the quality of the Tamil content on metrics shared by Khan Academy India (KAI).
- Document the errors spotted in the content and maintain a record of the type of errors.
- Evaluate the content quality by assessing the quality of content pieces randomly sampled by the KAI team.
- Evaluate the overall quality of KAI Tamil website based on the metrics shared by KAI.
ABOUT YOU
You would be a great fit for the role if you have the following.
- Deep knowledge and expertise in math and having great command of English and Tamil languages.
- Teaching or tutoring experience at the K-12 or university level, giving you a deep empathy with teachers and classrooms.
- Impeccable knowledge of Tamil language (which includes familiarity in reading, writing key mathematical terms in Tamil).
- You’re a quick learner and have the ability to quickly implement your learnings.
- Familiarity with Google Suite (Google docs, Google sheets)
- Attention to detail and a good eye for aesthetics.
- A true passion for education and a desire to change the world for the better
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
HOW TO APPLY
- Attach your resume or Linkedin URL in the space Resume/CV. (required)
- You may also attach any other documents showcasing your ability to support your candidacy for this role (optional).
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.
