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Hindi Localization Expert (Maths)

Khanacademy
2 months ago
Full-time
Remote
Worldwide
Remote Other

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. We localize our videos and exercises in multiple regional languages. We’re seeking a language expert to support our Math and Science offering in multiple Indian languages.

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY INDIA

Khan Academy India aims to deliver a world class user experience that is locally relevant to learners in India 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 is 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 contentΒ  accessible in local languages and by working with large public school systems. Khan Academy is available in Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Bangla, Tamil, and Assamese.

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 primarily looking for someone who:

  • Loves Math and talking about this subject [Comfortable in the subject up to class XII level]
  • Is fluent in Hindi language (speaking and writing).
  • Is native Hindi speaker.
  • Can manage a team of 5-6 people.
  • Have a keen eye for detail and do quality audits of localized content.

Other than these, the following will be great to have:

  • Having studied and/or taught in a Hindi medium school.
  • Experience in online teaching, video creation/Localization.
  • Being tech-savvy and tech-curious.
  • Proficiency in understanding the English language to be able to recreate videos.
  • Knowledge of various Computer Assisted Transla