Training Coordinator - Telangana

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 INDIA SCHOOLS TEAM 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 2.1 million learners last year, partnering with 70,000+ 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 1 Lakh+ teachers and 2.1 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 12-month contract-based role. In this role, you would: Design and deliver synchronous and asynchronous modes of capacity-building initiatives for the partner programs Manage a team of master trainers with fluency in Telugu language and co-facilitate high-quality training sessions Regularly conduct field visits to schools, district offices (3-4 per month) to understand field level challenges, and generate insights to increase adoption and deepen usage of Khan Academy Use data-informed decisions to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the training sessions conducted by the Khan Academy India team Work closely with Teacher Professional Development team to strengthen the existing teacher professional development framework, aligned with the team’s overall goals Coordination with the concerned departments for training program approval including getting the circulars/letters issued, working with the department for ensuring training execution etc. Work with KA state team and the state nodal officers to help support the implementation of the Khan Academy learning platform across government schools in Telangana Provide any other support, as needed, for the programme. ABOUT YOU You would be a great fit for the role if you have: 5+ years of experience including 3+ years working on designing delivering effective training programs for teachers and other education st ... (truncated, view full listing at source)