Training Coordinator in Bengaluru | Khan Academy

aikyam; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Part time

Job summary

Khan Academy India is seeking a Training Coordinator for the Schools Team in Karnataka. The role designs and delivers capacity-building programmes for government partners, leads a group of master trainers, and uses field learning to refine training rounds on an ongoing twelve-month contract.

You will coordinate with government departments, ensure training takes place on the ground, and travel across Karnataka up to 50% of the time, empowering teachers and administrators through professional

Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience overall.
• 3+ years designing and delivering training programmes for teachers and other education stakeholders.
• Experience in a government setting is ideal.
• Fluency in Kannada and English, in reading, writing and speaking, is mandatory.
• Willingness to travel across Karnataka for training sessions and school visits, up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver capacity-building programmes for partner programmes, in both live and self-paced formats.
• Manage a team of master trainers who are fluent in Kannada.
• Co-facilitate high-quality training sessions for teachers, teacher mentors and administrators.
• Identify and document the best practices and challenges coming from the field.
• Prepare learning material that helps the team scale what works and address what does not.
• Use data to keep improving how well the training sessions run and how much they achieve.
• Work closely with the Teacher Professional Development team to strengthen the teacher professional development framework.
• Coordinate with government departments to get training programmes approved, including getting circulars and letters issued.
• Work with the departments to make sure training actually takes place on the ground.
• Partner with the Karnataka team to drive programme implementation across the state.

Skills

Training design

Public speaking

Team leadership

Kannada

English fluency

Job description

Khan Academy India

Khan Academy is a nonprofit working to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. In India, the team builds a learning experience that is locally relevant, backed by a strong on-the-ground team, and available in Hindi, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi. From under 500,000 learners in 2016, Khan Academy India now reaches close to 4 million learners a month across its website, apps and YouTube channels. The learning system is mastery based, so students can understand a concept fully at their own pace before moving to harder material. This role sits within Khan Academy India's Schools Team, which partners with government school systems and has reached 21,000+ teachers and 1.2 million learners across 8,500+ schools.

Role

The Schools Team supports teachers, teacher mentors and administrators through training sessions, resources, webinars and peer-to-peer sharing. The Training Coordinator will design and deliver these professional development programmes for the team's government partners in Karnataka, lead a group of master trainers, and use field learning and data to make each round of training better than the last. This is a twelve-month contract-based role.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver capacity-building programmes for partner programmes, in both live and self-paced formats.


• Manage a team of master trainers who are fluent in Kannada.


• Co-facilitate high-quality training sessions for teachers, teacher mentors and administrators.


• Identify and document the best practices and challenges coming from the field.


• Prepare learning material that helps the team scale what works and address what does not.


• Use data to keep improving how well the training sessions run and how much they achieve.
  
• Work closely with the Teacher Professional Development team to strengthen the teacher professional development framework.


• Coordinate with government departments to get training programmes approved, including getting circulars and letters issued.


• Work with the departments to make sure training actually takes place on the ground.


• Partner with the Karnataka team to drive programme implementation across the state.

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience overall.


• 3+ years designing and delivering effective training programmes for teachers and other education stakeholders.


• Experience in a government setting is ideal.


• Fluency in Kannada and English, in reading, writing and speaking, is mandatory.


• Willingness to travel across Karnataka for training sessions and school visits, up to 50% of the time.


• Prior teaching experience is preferred but not mandatory.


• A genuine passion for education and a desire to change the world.


• Proven ability to work across teams.


• An entrepreneurial mindset, with a high tolerance for ambiguity.


• A liking for experimentation and a bias toward action.


• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and help the team get work done as it grows.


• A remote-friendly workplace.


• The chance to shape how teachers across an entire state use technology in their classrooms.


• Work alongside a small, collaborative team with a large and growing reach.