Job Opening with SamaSource
Anjali Adukia
From: Nidhi Chaudhary <nchau...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Subject: [IC Alumni Job Postings] Job Opening with SamaSource
To: icjo...@indicorps.org
Sounds like a really fun opportunity!
From: Tess Gilman <tessg...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM
Director of Samaschool
http://samasource.theresumator.com/apply/oRyrW7/Director-Of-Samaschool.html
The Company:
An innovative social business, Samasource connects women and youth living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet. Using a proprietary technology platform, we break down large-scale on line projects into small tasks for workers in impoverished areas around the world to complete. These workers are trained in basic computer skills and paid a living wage, often allowing them to support their entire households. Currently, Samasource provides work to people in Uganda, Kenya, Haiti, India, and Ghana.
Samasource was founded in 2008 and is supported by major corporate and philanthropic funders including The MasterCard Foundation, Google, eBay, Cisco, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the State Department. Samasource is headquartered in San Francisco’s Mission District, and has 30+ employees.
The Job:
To date, Samasource has paid more than $3 million to over 3,500 workers supporting an average of 2-3 dependents. We see the opportunity to reach thousands more workers and dependents by building a replicable training model. Samaschool will standardize and automate several of Samasource’s current training practices into a single package for partners all over the world to use.
The Director of Samaschool will develop and launch a comprehensive training program to prepare women and youth living in poverty to participate in formal online work. This role will entail the exciting opportunity to shape the vision of the program at the ground level and establish an unprecedented benchmark for workforce training. The Director of Samaschool will be responsible for all aspects of this new program including: developing training that matches labor market needs, launching a pilot, growing the program and hiring a team to support the expansion efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Research and establish a set of standardized worker criteria (soft skills, ICT knowledge, etc) required to successfully perform outsourced online projects on multiple continents
- Develop end-to-end online training curriculum to prepare workers for online projects
- Collaborate closely with internal Samasource teams to refine and revamp project-based training courses
- Launch a pilot of the training to test curriculum methodology and content
- Determine and maintain online learning content and library of courses and tools
- Coordinate with our evaluation team for all program data collection, program reports and other related materials
- Research and catalogue for standardized use the needs and requirements of employers in the geographies where we train and employ our workers. Work with the international team to educate potential employers on the abilities of trainees and evaluate worksites for appropriate work conditions.
- Assist in the development of program proposals and planning and represent the organization at meetings, conferences and events
Requirements:
- At least 3+ years of proven experience in developing and implementing online training programs
- Masters degree, preferably in education or related field
- Familiarity with online work systems including oDesk and Elance
- Knowledge of existing digital literacy programs
- Understanding of or experience with teaching life skills and other soft skills
- Experience hiring and managing a team
- Demonstrated ability to adapt new technologies, software and technical tools
- At home in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity
- Deep commitment to Samasource’s mission and scaling our work through online training
- Must be eligible to work from the US
- High level of initiative, motivation and excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel to the field to observe and assess how trainees are learning
- Preferred: Experience successfully training or adapting curricula in multicultural settings and/or
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