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Learning Equality about 2 years ago
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Global Implementations Project Manager

at Learning Equality

Remote

Hundreds of millions of children, youth, and adults around the globe lack access to quality education. Learning Equality strives to address this inequity by creating products and tools that can be adapted and contextualized to meet learning needs, with or without Internet access.

Founded as a nonprofit organization in 2013 by a group of students, Learning Equality first launched KA Lite, our first-generation platform which brought the Khan Academy videos and exercises offline. Learning Equality expanded on that product in 2017 to create Kolibri, an adaptable end-to-end suite of open-source tools, educational resources, and support materials designed for offline-first teaching and learning. We’ve always focused on boosting learning outcomes in some of the world’s most challenging contexts, supporting disconnected learning in refugee camps, rural schools, orphanages, and out-of-school programs. To date, Kolibri has been translated into 31 languages and is being used in over 220 countries and territories.

Learning Equality is directly supporting the implementation of Kolibri with collaborators in more than 30 countries, including UN Women, Vodafone Foundation, UNICEF, and UNHCR, as well as a global network of organic adopters advocating for learning opportunities in their communities. With the support of organizations such as Google.org, the Hewlett Foundation, and the nonprofit tech accelerator Fast Forward, we are continuing to grow our products to be able to reach more communities around the world.

We are seeking a Project Manager to lead on Learning Equality’s implementations projects. This is a full-time position for a project manager with experience in the international/non-profit fields who identifies strongly with Learning Equality’s mission to bring quality education to under-resourced communities around the world.

What does implementations-focused project management at Learning Equality look like?

Learning Equality develops an offline-first ecosystem of products and tools called Kolibri, which is enabled by a do-it-yourself model of adoption. While Learning Equality also supports its effective use through specialized services, we don’t design or implement interventions on our own. Instead, we collaborate with different types of organizations who choose to use our tools in their educational programming, from inidual users, to small collectives, to state and national governments, to international NGOs, and UN agencies. In this role, your responsibilities will include managing and supporting these collaborations through specific projects, and coordinating communication across our internal team and with dedicated external partners to deepen the impact of these collaborations.

Some examples of your time spent in a given month include:

  • Engaging in weekly partner calls with any given implementing organization using Kolibri with or without the Internet, to provide guidance on their pedagogical model based on lessons from other localities. After weekly calls, you’ll communicate updated timelines to teammates, and facilitate planning for an upcoming training.
  • Reviewing feedback from implementing organizations regarding teachers’ and learners’ experiences initially using Kolibri. This could include deciding to organize a collaborative strategic discussion about potential adjustments to a program, processing feedback internally about the specific user experience, and providing guidance related to technical feasibility of their hardware set-up.
  • Discussing unmet needs of a partner that may require custom feature development in Kolibri. You work with teammates to evaluate broader usefulness of the proposed feature in the product, and balance against other ongoing work to prioritize.
  • Developing project-specific instructions on how to update Kolibri for an implementation in emergency and crisis contexts within a particular hardware model.
  • Representing Learning Equality virtually and/or in-person at conferences, engagement opportunities, and/or training sessions.

The majority of this role (75%) will focus on strategic project management, as part of a highly collaborative team. You will:

  • Provide strategic support to Kolibri projects. You will be responsible for having a finger on the pulse of our primary partner projects, for thinking strategically across them to respond to needs, and for synthesizing feedback in order to sustainably address community needs in an open, effective, and efficient way. You will develop and apply processes across the projects to enable clear management.
  • Be the primary liaison for specific Kolibri projects. Externally, you will be communicating over email and on calls to better understand project progress, identify specific areas of improvement or opportunity for the project, as well as gaps in how user needs are being met. Internally, you will log feedback received from partners to our internal central feedback site to inform future product and design development, relay content requests for the Kolibri Content Library, and make digital resource recommendations to implementation projects from the current Library offering. You will be the connector with relevant teams internally, according to project needs – everything from managing project-specific feature development, to coordinating travel for a training, to liaising with the team developing the Kolibri Edtech Toolkit for new documentation needs.
  • Become an expert on how Kolibri is used. You will have a finger on the pulse of the user landscape and their contexts of use. You will be a go-to person for questions about certain users and trends in how our software is being used. You will learn the ins-and-outs of a Kolibri implementation, become well-versed in technical configurations to communicate what’s possible within the parameters of an organization’s hardware and connectivity model, and advise on next steps.

The remaining 25% of the role will see you contributing to projects related to community engagement (e.g., reaching out to implementers to collect stories on how they’re using Kolibri), and/or training and educator support (e.g., co-facilitating an educator training session alongside a lead trainer, or adapting existing toolkit materials for a specific project). Psst, we have a position more focused solely on these areas if that’s more relevant to your experiences and interests.

This position might be for you if

You have:

  • Managed an educational initiative in low-resource contexts. Whether for a non-profit supporting formal schools, or with a content creation team who is developing digital resources, you have managed a project or initiative from start to finish, so you can anticipate potential hurdles and know how to problem solve and iterate when needed.
  • Collected information and acted accordingly. You’re comfortable scoping needs from different sources and can interpret responses to create an action plan whether it is for a project for youth pursuing life skills and vocational training or to develop adaptable training materials for use in nonformal settings.
  • Worked with a remote team or contributed to a global community. You understand that some flexibility may be required to collaborate with the Learning Equality team (primarily based in the United States) while coordinating with the global Kolibri community (primarily based outside of the United States). Occasionally, you may have a meeting outside of traditional working hours, and at times (<5%) you may travel to support our projects or represent our organization. We want you to have a healthy work-life balance and will encourage adjusted schedules or time off to balance your work week.

You are:

  • You are well versed in the field of international development, education, and/or non-profits. You have experience working on different initiatives and understand the nuances of how different actors work together to implement projects in low-resource environments. You may have experience working in nonprofit leadership, international development, or related fields, and have been trained in these areas.
  • You are a skilled project manager. You thrive working independently and asynchronously. You pay attention to detail, are incredibly organized, and have an eye for efficiency. You know how to set up processes (including with relevant tools – we use Notion!) and keep moving projects forward, while keeping relevant parties updated, and strategizing changes when they are needed.
  • You are a thoughtful communicator. You understand that communicating across a variety of mediums is important, and are conversant on email, Slack, WhatsApp, video conferencing, and more. You recognize that different modalities (and occasionally working at different times of the day) may be necessary. You are excited to refine your ability to translate software and hardware technology concepts for a non-technical audience.
  • You understand teaching and learning needs in low-resource environments. You want Learning Equality’s products and tools to continue to meet teaching and learning needs, and will proactively help to identify gaps in how these needs are being met, and process feedback to the team working on Kolibri design and development.
  • You are comfortable with technology. You recognize different types of education technologies that exist, and have the tools to understand how they could meet different needs. You like exploring new platforms and feel comfortable explaining them to others. As a project manager for a technology-focused organization, you’ll regularly need to have technical conversations about how Kolibri can be set-up to support learning in different environments.

Bonus points.

Don’t let it hold you back from applying if you don’t meet these requirements but please mention if you do!

  • You have previously taught in an educational setting. You have experience delivering instruction in a formal classroom or nonformal education context, and understand the day to day challenges that educators face in supporting learners with varying needs and learning goals.
  • You know how to evaluate programmatic impact. You have developed monitoring tools, conducted evaluations, developed logistical frameworks, and communicated the impact of educational programming.
  • You are knowledgeable about open educational resources and curriculum design. Your knowledge of digital learning resources goes beyond engaging with digital content online, but you understand the nuances of OER, and how they can be remixed to serve teaching and learning needs.
  • You have experience in emergency and crisis contexts. You have led or contributed to education or development initiatives for refugee and host community children and youth.
  • You have used or engaged with student-centered blended learning pedagogies. You are acquainted with different models of teaching and learning with education technology, and have used them in your own classroom or educational programming to benefit others.
  • You are fluent in languages other than English. Many members of our team speak, write and can lead sessions in more than one language, which is helpful when engaging with the global Kolibri community.

Compensation & Benefits

Our core values guide our compensation and benefits package, just like they guide the rest of our work. We offer the following pay and benefits to US-based employees and account for similar benefits for international compensation. While we cannot sponsor visas, we welcome applicants who work from home internationally.

  • Salary
    • In an effort to avoid biases and address historical pay inequities, we use a consistent formula to set our team salaries. Our salary is calculated through three factors: a person’s role, level of experience, and their work-from-home location. We believe in being transparent about compensation: We will calculate salary ranges based on candidate location and share during introductory conversations.
  • Health
    • We cover 100% of your and your dependents’ health insurance, including vision and dental. We have an Employee Assistance Program where you can access counseling in support of your mental health, financial wellbeing, and other life issues.
    • We offer a monthly wellness stipend to support all aspects of your wellbeing – you can put it towards purchases like a gym subscription, a mindfulness app, or yoga classes.
  • Finances
    • Learning Equality offers a 401(k) plan and contributes 3%, regardless of the amount you contribute, to help you plan for your future.
  • Scheduling
    • We support flexible working schedules. We ask all teammates to make sure their working hours partially overlap with continental US time zones, for ease of collaboration, and besides that you can choose what works best for you.
    • We provide 5 weeks paid vacation, 13 paid holidays, and 4 months paid parental leave for parents of any gender, whether you’re a biological, adoptive, or foster parent.
  • Remote Work
    • We are a distributed team and collaborate online through Slack and video meetings, and other online communication tools. We provide up to $1000 when you start to help with your initial work from home setup, and we pay for your home internet.
  • Growth
    • We’re a team of life-long learners and we want you to have the workspace set up that is best for you. We budget $2,400 a year per employee to a Constant Improvement fund. You can decide whether to use this budget to upgrade your physical workspace, purchase technological tools to support your work, continue to develop through reading or perhaps attend a webinar to learn alongside peers.

At Learning Equality we work towards a world where everyone can achieve their full potential through access to quality education. To achieve this goal we seek and support a erse team representative of the cultures and ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations, religious beliefs and abilities that are reflective of our global community of users. We are passionate about ersity because it brings strength, creativity, perspective and joy to our team.