Content Intern

Summary

Join Khan Academy's US Content team as a Content team Intern and collaborate with experienced Content Creators to develop, launch, and improve educational content. Work on a project from start to finish, gaining hands-on experience in the content creation cycle. Present your project at the end of the internship. Participate in an intern learning community to connect with colleagues and learn about collaboration in an edtech organization. Explore integrating Khanmigo, our AI-powered tutor, into content. Gain valuable experience in educational technology and make informed career decisions.

Requirements

• Passion for education and instructional design
• You are motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”
• Deep knowledge and expertise in Chemistry
• 2+ years of experience teaching Chemistry at the K-12 or university level, giving you a deep empathy with learners, teachers and classrooms
• Able to harness creativity, empathy, and pragmatism to design learning experiences that are standards-aligned and lead to positive learning outcomes, even within the resource, curricular, and technology constraints of today’s classrooms
• Committed to equity and to delivering engaging and meaningful learning experiences to all learners, particularly those in historically underrepresented groups or communities
• Strong execution and collaboration
• Connect your day-to-day work to larger departmental, school, or district-wide goals while also paying close attention to details to ensure that your work is clear, concise, and error-free
• Adept project manager who can break a complex task into manageable pieces and track your progress towards a goal or outcome. Stay organized even when there are multiple tasks to complete
• Kind, collaborative, and a strong communicator; successfully share, solicit, and act on feedback.  Sum up complex ideas and communicate them to a variety of audiences
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of others, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout an organization
• Interest and availability
• Relish classroom teaching, but are curious about careers in content creation within the educational technology space, and are eager to learn more through an authentic full-time summer experience
• Available to participate in an 8-week full-time remote internship program between the end of your 2024-25 school year and the start of your 2025-26 school year, and are also available to share out your summer work at a remote event in August 2025

Responsibilities

• Develop, launch, and upgrade content on courses in your area of expertise
• Own and drive a project that gives you end-to-end experience with all aspects of Khan Academy’s content creation cycle
• Share your project through a culminating presentation at the close of the internship experience
• Learn from colleagues across the organization, while learning how different teams within an educational technology organization collaborate to design and deliver world-class digital learning experiences to learners and educators
• Explore ways to integrate our AI-powered tutor, Khanmigo, into our content to provide more tailored and interactive learning experiences to students

Benefits

• Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority
• Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times
• An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
• The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
• The rate for this internship is $50 USD / $62.50 CAN per hour