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Content Developer (Contract Position, Summer 2024) at Kira Learning Temporary
About Kira Learning
Kira Learning is creating curriculum and learning tools that empower teachers and prepare students for a world in which technology and science play pivotal roles in everyone’s lives. By way of our expert-backed content and intuitive, integrated teaching platform, Kira is intent on transforming the way computer science and artificial intelligence is taught and learned.
We are backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera.
About this Role
Join our first summer cohort of Content Developers who will help scale up our Computer Science and AI course offerings! Our curriculum is at the heart of our mission and product, and for 10 weeks you’ll collaborate with a talented team of content experts to design and develop up to 15 courses that will be used by our customers. As a Content Developer you’ll be responsible for building out the course end-to-end.
This includes creating:
– All video content, including examples, images, and technical instruction
– A project and other assessments for the end of each lesson and unit
During the 10 weeks, you’ll work with our internal Curriculum team and a Curriculum Support Specialist to rigorously test the curriculum, and also ensure we have ample content and practice problems for each course.
We are looking for people who are curious and eager to build something from the ground up and have demonstrated experience teaching CS and AI content to students K-12. For many of our courses, we’ll need subject matter experts so please take a look at the list of courses and let us know in your application which one(s) you’re most interested in!
This program runs from June 10th – August 16th, 2024. Starting earlier is also a possibility.
Background Check: Kira Learning will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: At Kira Learning, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Responsibilities & Duties
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- Work with other content experts to develop high-quality, engaging, and level appropriate content for students.
- Own concept-to-market life cycle of student learning experiences by developing lesson objectives, instructional content (videos,visuals, etc.), summative assessments, and projects for each unit.
- Work with learning design experts to ensure content aligns with pedagogical best practices.
- Work with CS standards experts to build rigorous content that engages students and teachers, and aligns with state standards and local contexts.
- Interact with teachers to best understand student, teacher, and classroom needs.
- Collaborate with Teacher PD and Product teams to ensure alignment of student content with teacher PD and resources, and with tools in the Kira platform that support teaching and learning.
Experience & Skills:
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- A deep understanding of computer science principles and ability to communicate that to a K-12 audience
- Preferred experience in K-12 classroom teaching Computer Science
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; you can patiently, professionally and effectively communicate with a diverse and multicultural group of peers across time zones and continents
- Nimble and adaptable. Can roll with the punches and thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.
- A positive, can-do attitude. You’re not deterred by minor setbacks and are able to swiftly overcome ambiguity.
- You believe feedback is a gift. You can thoughtfully share feedback to others as needed, and you can receive feedback and grow from it.
- Will consistently contribute to a culture of inclusion where all team members feel a sense of belonging and can bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong proficiency in Google Workspace programs.
Course List
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- Applied Computer Science (multiple courses across core K-8 subjects)
- Building Programs with Blocked Based Coding
- Digital Citizenship
- Intro to Computer Science in Lua using Roblox
- Coding Robotics
- IB Computer Science (HL)
- Intro to Computer Science (Javascript)
- Programming Autonomous Vehicles in C++
- Intro to Cybersecurity
- Game Design in Unity
- Building Mobile Apps Using Java
- Communicating with a Computer using Prompt Engineering
- Financial Literacy
$0 – $20,000 one-time
Compensation is based on reaching specific deliverables and goals throughout your time. When accepting an offer to join our Summer Cohort, we will lay out all expectations, and compensation will be determined by quality, on-time performance. We anticipate the full payout (if you complete all deliverables on time) will be $20,000.
Background Check: Kira Learning will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: At Kira Learning, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
