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.

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 content 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.

LEARN MORE

Sal’s TED talk from 2011
Sal’s TED talk from 2015
A glimpse of our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
A glimpse of our content created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylgb8FFMgd4
Our Hinglish content in action: http://bit.ly/khanacademyyoutube

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.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are primarily looking for someone who:

Loves Science and talking about this subject [Comfortable in the subject up to class XII level]
Is fluent in Kannada language (speaking and writing).
Is native Kannada speaker.
Can localize videos in Kannada.
Has video making experience.

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

Having studied and/or taught in a Kannada 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 Video making, video editing softwares.

The role will involve localization of videos from English to Kannada. It will also involve interactions with state teachers to better understand their needs.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES

Localizing English Science videos into Kannada.
Reviewing and Editing KA Science Kannada content and/or creating and localizing new content (videos) as needed; keeping quality metrics in mind (Contextualisation, cohesion, rigor, clarity, pedagogical approach, etc.)
Collect on-ground feedback on content by interacting with state teachers and incorporating the feedback into the content.
Going through Kannada Science textbooks to highlight any modifications needed before localisation.
Reading through original material, reviewing it and recreating it in the target language in case needed, ensuring that the meaning of the source is retained.
Along with State Board and NCERT Books using specialist dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to find the closest equivalents for terminology and words used.
Researching on relevant phraseology to find the correct localization.
Proofreading and editing final translated versions on the basis of the basic quality parameters (Meaning, Readability, Compliance, Terminology, Consistency and Linguistics).
Retaining and developing knowledge on specialist areas of video localization.
Developing glossary for the specific terminologies to be used in Khan Academy’s localization process and continuously update it with new terminology.

LOCATION

This is a remote working opportunity. You will have the liberty to work from your home.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team like a for-profit.

Competitive salary
Remote-friendly workplace, i.e. option to work from home
Fun team events and board game nights!

HOW TO APPLY

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Recreate the following video into Kannada. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/in-in-class-10-biology/in-in-reproduction/in-in-reproduction-coming-soon/v/variation-its-importance-how-do-organisms-reproduce-biology-khan-academy | Khan Academy (Recreate the whole video) *

This task is to review your conversational tone, and the ability to localize, speak and write in Kannada. We always recreate videos with Kannada writing. For this task, you can submit a video file where the camera captures the screen or paper where you're writing. If you're familiar with tools like Pentab or software like Sketchbook or Camtasia, feel free to use them to recreate these videos in Kannada. Please adhere to the following guidelines:

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Your tone and intonations need not match the author’s tone, but they need to be conversational
The explanation should closely match the English version. All the examples, the flow/narrative, everything should be as close as possible to the English version.
You do NOT need to do word to word translations. We know that it hampers creativity and makes the process boring! Your audio will be thoroughly reviewed only to see if they deliver the same meaning. Ultimately, that’s what matters.
Do not worry if your audio length stretches a bit. (of course, we don’t want the length to be twice the original length as well. So, do try to strike a balance there).
Please upload your video file to Google Drive and paste those links in a document and upload that document in the application.

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