Data Analyst - Partner Operations

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. Whether they’re studying matrices, mitosis, or multivariable calculus, we want to offer students the resources to realize that they can learn anything.

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, Hinglish, Kannada, Gujarati, Bangla, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi and Assamese.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Data Analyst to drive the creation of various reports and data views that are important to run the programme. We are looking for someone who is proficient in working with Google Sheets/MS Excel, is passionate about working with data and obsessed with presenting valuable data-based insights. The individual will be responsible for regularly maintaining all data trackers used to guide our decisions during programme implementation. They will work closely with the rest of the members of the schools team to understand the requirements and create data-views that can help empower the schools team members for internal or external meetings.

Please note that this is a 12 months contract role.

Job Responsibilities

  • Create state level, district level, block level and school level data views required to measure success of our programmes in all partnerships with State government
  • Weekly maintenance of the data trackers to ensure up-to-date data
  • Maintain weekly data trackers that support our partner’s needs and always ensure up-to-date data
  • Pre-processing and cleaning up of raw school data before uploading to our internal systems
  • Creating aggregate data views of the support team data and training team data that can be presented for analysis
  • Download and maintain raw data dumps and perform time based analysis for certain success metrics of our programmes
  • Other ad-hoc data analysis/ MIS based tasks as required

PERKS AND BENEFITS

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

  • Competitive salaries
  • Remote-friendly workplace, i.e. option to work from home; flexible schedules

LEARN MORE

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HOW TO APPLY

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