- Role: Learning Design Specialist
- Organization: M-Shule
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
M-Shule is the first adaptive, mobile learning platform in Africa to connect primary school students with personalized education even through SMS. Meaning “mobile school” in Swahili, M-Shule’s platform uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized learning support in Math and English over SMS and chatbots, building students’ concept mastery, exam performance, and confidence. Then M-Shule shares data and insights with their parents, schools, and organizations to power better instruction and collaboration. By making a 21st century learning platform possible with the simplest feature phone, M-Shule unlocks new opportunities for millions of students across sub-Saharan Africa and the world. Find out more on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.
About You
You will be a major part of a small and agile development team driving the first-ever artificial intelligence- based learning tool in primary schools in East Africa. We are looking for someone who is excited by the opportunity to draw from innovations in the international DdTech space, and figure out how to apply them in a developing market. How do you deliver a transformational adaptive, mobile learning product when we can’t rely on regular electricity, digital literacy, or quality education standards? That’s what you get to find out!
We have already built and are implementing our product in primary schools across Kenya. We now invite you to tackle projects like designing engaging SMS lesson flows, using quantitative and qualitative data to understand learning performance growth, and helping the team test and iterate content development processes.
Responsibilities
- Work with M-Shule team to develop and improve a powerful and engaging learning experience through an SMS platform, resulting in higher performance and happier students.
- Build and improve knowledge and concept maps based on theory and experience in student skill development and mastery.
- Develop strategy and implement processes around quality content design and development.
- Design student motivation and engagement learning features and develop strategies to increase user delight with the learning process.
- Manage projects across product teams to fulfill students’ learning goals.
Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.
Skills & Qualifications
A desire to impact education, independent project management skills, and exceptional problem-solving abilities are all essential prerequisites on the M-Shule team. For this role, we’re also looking for someone with the following:
Required
- Master’s degree in Education, Edtech, Learning Design, and/or Psychology; Bachelor’s or other degrees acceptable if there was strong coursework in the above areas and/or significant work experience.
- Expertise with research, theory of learning, pedagogy, and/or design thinking strategies.
- Experience with working on e-learning, mobile-learning, and/or educational app projects.
- Flexibility and willingness to jump in and lead projects in a hands-on, fast-paced startup environment.
- Strong customer orientation.
- Enthusiasm and commitment to learning and collaboration across cross-cultural teams.
Preferred
- Expertise in Math, English, or 21st Century skill instructions
- Experience with lower-income learners and/or emerging markets
