Project Associate (Odisha)

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, Marathi and Punjabi.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Khan Academy India is looking for a passionate individual to join our growing Schools Team as a Program Associate (PA) to support our programme with the Odisha government school system. The PA will be based in Odisha. In this role, you will be working with the Senior Program Lead and the Project Lead and will be responsible for driving the implementation of the Khan Academy programme in the state, in collaboration with the Odisha Education Department. 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.

Please note that this is a 12-months contract role.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

Support programme implementation: Support the implementation of the Khan Academy learning platform across the government schools.

Manage relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with administration officials which include nodal officers, state resource persons, district-level officers, and block-level officers.

Regularly conduct field visits(8-10/month) and conduct 10-15 calls with the middle layer to observe and understand the program implementation

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.

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