Math Content Manager (Remote)
Rising Academies, Ghana
Job Description
The Context
Across the developing world, more children than ever are in school but they are not learning. A recent study estimated that less than 1% of school children in Sub-Saharan Africa attend a school where the teaching meets basic standards of quality. At Rising Academies, we’re changing that, and we want your help.
About Us
We are a growing network of inspiring schools in West Africa. Our mission is to unleash the full potential of every student, equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and character to succeed in further study, work, and day-to-day life. We support more than 250,000 students across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Rwanda through a combination of low cost private schools we manage directly, and partnership schools we manage in collaboration with governments. But this is just the start. We want to expand our range of digital products to help improve the quality of education for millions of students around the world.
We have recently closed our Series A funding round and won a multi-year, multi-million dollar grant to accelerate the development of our digital ed-tech solutions for low-income students across the globe. If you want to make a difference to the lives of teachers, students and parents, then we are the right place for you.
About the role
We are seeking to hire a best- in-class Math Content Manager who will co lead and design the overall development, implementation and management of math content for Rising. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Math Specialist to deliver engaging content for Rori. Our ideal candidate is an experienced professional with demonstrable knowledge and understanding of mathematics and must enjoy creating digital learning experiences for students
The Math Content Manager will:
- Co-design and lead the development of content related to building confidence in math and developing metacognitive strategies.
- Co-design and support the development of math content.
- Build, train and co-manage a team of free-lance content developers.
- Plan and assign specific tasks to the project team of content writers.
- Ensure the quality of Maths content developed for Rori is best-in-class for all applicable grade levels, and is aligned with local government curriculum.
- Keep track of development in mathematics pedagogy, and ensure content is continuously updated.
Requirements
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics/Furthermath or Statistics, master’s degree a plus.
- 5+ years of professional experience in teaching or tutoring across primary and secondary school levels of education.
- Experience in creating user facing content, ideally in an EdTech environment.
- Impeccable written and verbal communication skills.
- Meticulous, attention to detail.
- Ability to use google apps, ask management systems and other productivity technology with ease.
- Fully comfortable with Google workspace applications and easy to adapt to new systems easily.
About You:
- Required
- Prior experience teaching mathematics
- Ability to set and meet own goals, and work on a distributed team
- Preferred
- Background in mathematics pedagogy, curriculum design etc.
- Teaching experience in low-resource context
- Experience in creating user/student facing content, ideally in an edtech environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to use productivity and remote working applications (Slack, G-Suite, Asana etc).
Location and reporting:
This is a full-time remote role. The Math Content Manager reports to the Senior Advisor on the Rori Project, and with a dotted line reporting relationship to Rising’s CTO.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. We regularly benchmark our compensation against comparable businesses, social ventures and non-profits. Rising’s goal is to be transparent about salaries at all levels of the organization and have a standard, global pay scale for all positions that is non-negotiable.
The benefits we offer are built to have a strong added value on our staff’s well-being and we are excited to discuss this further with you in the process.