People and Talent Coordinator

Title: People and Talent Coordinator (6-month contract, $40/hour, 40 hours/week)

Location: Mountain View, CA / Remote friendly (US + Canada Only)

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K – 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.

OUR COMMUNITY

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve. We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

Works as part of the People Operations Team to provide full cycle talent acquisition and HR operations support. This role will be responsible for such duties as supporting the recruitment process by crafting job descriptions, preparing job offer letters, conducting compensation analyses, maintaining candidate databases, coordinating interviews, and assisting with onboarding. Additionally, you will:

• Provide support throughout the various hiring phases, including candidate attraction, resume screening, interview scheduling, and hiring communication management.
• Schedule interviews; oversee preparation of interview guides, toolkits, and other hiring and selection materials.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to identify and draft detailed and accurate job descriptions and hiring criteria.
• Facilitate hiring managers through the appropriate hiring process gaining required approvals.
• Provide coordination and administrative support for HR initiatives and projects.
• Support implementation, upgrades, or changes to HRIS platforms.
• Coordinate, monitor and audit information entered into HRIS platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve internal stakeholder HRIS issues.
• Respond to external and internal general inquiries and requests.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Motivated by the Khan Academy mission to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• 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 the organization.
• Developing knowledge of HR policies and best practices.
• 3 to 5 years related experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn applicant-tracking software or other recruitment systems and various HRIS platforms.
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods, preferred.
• Self-starter with ability to work through ambiguity while remaining nimble.

KEY CORE COMPETENCIES

• Delivers Results for Impact – Aware of the overall objective, prioritizes tasks effectively, and achieves desired outcomes that benefit the organization’s mission.
• Communication and Engagement – Shares appropriate information with relevant individuals, at the appropriate time and in a suitable manner. Actively listens to facilitate understanding and effective communication.
• Inclusive Collaboration – Collaborates effectively with a diverse team, fostering a supportive environment where everyone feels valued, empowered, and free to contribute towards a shared goal.
• Leadership – Leverage strengths to guide cross-functional collaboration and inspire others to contribute towards achieving shared objectives.
• Problem Solving – Uses knowledge of the organization to solve problems and accomplish goals. Exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, synthesize information, make decisions, and solve problems.

MORE ABOUT US

• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• Sal’s TED talk from 2023
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team

OUR COMPANY VALUES

Live & breathe learners

We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.

Take a stand

As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.

Embrace diverse perspectives

We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.

Work responsibly and sustainably

We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.

Bring out the joy

We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.

Cultivate learning mindset

We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don’t let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.

Deliver wow

We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things each of which aligns to our ambitious vision so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.