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ORGANIZATION: OPPIA FOUNDATION INC

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If you’re interested in organizing projects and keeping things moving, with the aim of helping underserved children gain access to education, this is the volunteer role for you! Oppia is looking for passionate individuals to join our team and coordinate important projects that help Oppia continue to provide free educational services for underserved learners around the world who are unable to afford them.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/fiWtweetHGM6BT6w9

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our free-to-use platform, Oppia (https://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. In the wake of COVID-19, millions more children are also seeing interruptions in their daily lives, stability, and education - making it even more difficult than before for many students to get the education they need to succeed.

We run many projects at Oppia across a number of different teams (design, marketing, partnerships, technical, etc.) and project managers at Oppia focus on making sure that projects land and that team processes are solid to ensure delivery. They also support team leads in ensuring that team operations run smoothly, so that leads have time to focus on strategy and direction. They have excellent interpersonal skills, being able to ensure that projects are completed in a timely way while also being responsive to the needs of a mostly volunteer-based team, and are willing to pitch in and help where necessary to get requirements clarified or iron out issues so that the project can proceed to completion.

Some examples of projects include, but are not limited to: organizing a feature testing pipeline, organizing outreach programs that Oppia participates in, running the marketing content calendar across multiple subteams, and running a partner training program.

If accepted, we will reach out to you to discuss which types of projects you would enjoy most and would be a good fit for your skills and experience. We welcome individuals who are willing to learn and grow through this opportunity, though for this role it would be helpful to have some prior experience in project or program management.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

  • Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
  • Oppia focuses on effectiveness, and conducts rigorous user testing and RCTs to validate the lessons we offer. Learners using Oppia’s lessons have seen gains of 50+% from pre-test to post-test.
  • Oppia's contributors actively help to provide students around the world with basic education. Please seehttps://medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 andhttps://medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 for examples of our current work.

What Our Project Management Team Contributes

  • Breaking down a key objective/deliverable into multiple tasks, and planning a timeline around those tasks.
  • Keeping progress visible on a public team tracker, so that all team members and stakeholders understand the current status of the project, who is assigned to what, and what each of their next steps are.
  • Helping unblock team members who are running into issues with their tasks.
  • Communicating with team members and stakeholders to clarify information, escalate issues, and ensure successful project delivery.
  • Improving team processes and writing documentation to help new team members.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/fiWtweetHGM6BT6w9

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About OPPIA FOUNDATION INC

Location:

1401 21ST ST STE R, SACRAMENTO, CA 95816, US

Mission Statement

Oppia’s mission is to provide high-quality, engaging education to learners across the globe who lack access to it.

Description

The Oppia team works to create effective, enjoyable online lessons at scale that can reach millions of people. We want every individual, no matter what their personal circumstances, to have access to learning experiences that are not only pedagogically effective, but also fun and engaging. Our focus is on reducing the equity gap in access to education, and we are currently working on providing free and effective basic math and science lessons that can be played on cheap Android devices to learners in underserved communities around the world. Oppia's lessons have already reached over 2,000,000 users, and learners using our basic mathematics curriculum have seen gains of over 50% from pre-test to post-test. You can read some examples of our work in these blog posts: https://medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 and https://medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 .

A key differentiator of Oppia is its unique technology platform, which simulates an interactive tutor by adapting each lesson to individual learners’ needs and providing specific, targeted feedback to help them improve. Furthermore, all our lessons are openly licensed and the platform is open source, which enables a diverse group of educators and technologists from around the world to regularly iterate on and improve them.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Computers & Technology
Education & Literacy
Children & Youth, Computers & Technology, Education & Literacy

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.

SKILLS

  • Multi-Tasking
  • Organization
  • People Skills
  • Project Management

GOOD FOR

  • Teens

REQUIREMENTS

  • 5+ hours a week.
  • Please fill in this form to get started: https://forms.gle/fiWtweetHGM6BT6w9

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