Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K – 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.
OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve. We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We seek experienced and versatile Humanities educators to serve as Content Creation Associates ($55/hour, up to 30 hours weekly).
What you’ll do:
- Expand our ELA offerings (including, but not limited to SAT, and High School Reading and Writing) by leveraging your subject matter expertise and your understanding of learner needs.
- Design and develop new finely-crafted standards-aligned passages, exercises, assessment items and articles, leveraging pre-existing resources from Khan Academy and third parties.
- Learn and use our content management system to expand and improve existing courses.
What you bring:
- Proven ability to create high-impact learning content in your discipline (minimum of 2 years of content development experience in several grade 5-12 Humanities subjects, including Test Prep and/or Reading/Writing).
- Strong understanding of how students like to learn and insight into common misconceptions (minimum of 2 years of relevant teaching/tutoring experience).
- Desire to teach at scale, engage a broad array of learners, and question your assumptions about what’s most important for learners.
- Desire to leverage tools, including generative AI, to publish quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on content.
- An entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action.
- Experience with collaborative work on time-sensitive projects.
- Impeccable command of written communication; an energetic can-do attitude as a fluent and efficient content creator, a keen editorial eye for high quality text in exercises and articles, and a knack for empowering, supportive peer review.
- Meticulous attention to detail and time management skills.
- Project management skills (e.g. fluent with Google docs and spreadsheets and other tools) and a willingness to learn new tools.
- A passion for education and a desire to change the world.
Nice to have:
- Classroom teaching experience.
- An advanced degree in a Humanities and/or Teaching field.
HOW TO APPLY
In addition to submitting a resume, please complete the required task described below. Applications without task submissions will not be considered.
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don’t let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners. APPLY HERE