Bilingual Content Creator, Khan Academy Kids (24 months fixed-term)New$78K–$87K
The opportunity
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What you'll do
Author high-quality, standards-aligned learning activities and assessment: items in English and Spanish for PreK through 2nd grade, using subject-matter expertise and knowledge of early-learning standards (e.g., Head Start ELOF, Common Core, state PreK standards)
Map content coverage across the Khan Academy Kids library, building: crosswalks that connect practice activities to assessments and identifying gaps in coverage
Revise and improve existing assessments based on direct child assessment data and psychometric analyses
Author and test new assessment items with children and educators in classroom settings
Learn and leverage Khan Academy Kids' content-authoring infrastructure, and: partner with product and engineering to improve authoring tooling and workflows
Coordinate with creative teams on asset and audio requests, and improve: audio-generation and quality-assurance processes
What they're looking for
- Serve as an editorial reviewer for new and existing content in both English and Spanish
- + years of experience developing educational content or teaching, ideally: with children in preschool through second grade. Experience with early childhood assessment (item development, administration, or play-testing) is a strong plus.
- Full professional fluency and strong writing and editing skills in English: and Spanish, with mindfulness of dialectal variation in both languages. Must be able to create, edit, and adapt developmentally appropriate content while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural relevance across languages. Note that Spanish proficiency will be assessed during the hiring process.
- Experience working with early-learning standards (e.g., Head Start ELOF,: Common Core, state PreK frameworks) and ensuring alignment and coverage
