Number of positions: 1

Knowledge Platform is a state-of-the-art education company, using technology to bring top quality educational content to classrooms and online. Knowledge Platform is currently looking for motivated, tech-savvy and education minded team members to create learning content, games and assessments. The position will be for 12 months, with a 3-month probation.

The applicant will create graphics and media in various tools, and animations, to be used in educational content such as videos, games, interactive modules and assessments. Designing characters, maintaining consistency and safeguarding standards between the videos will be an important part of the position. The applicant will work closely together with content managers, content developers, and content creators in an iterative process.

Skills required for the position of Animator are:

• Expertise and familiarity with several softwares including: Adobe After effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, PowerPoint, Vyond (formerly GoAnimate), Character Animate
• Experience in education or in creating digital educational tools is preferred
• Good interpersonal skills and collaborative team-player
• At least 1 year of experience
• Experience with both print and digital design will be considered an asset
• Degree or certification preferred

Conditions and application

Knowledge Platform offers a competitive package and conditions. For this position, the expected salary range is PKR 80K – 110K.

Please send your motivation letter and CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject Application: Animator + Graphic designer

Specific questions about this position can be addressed to Zehra Hasan (zhasan@knowledgeplatform.com)

We’re looking to start the hiring process immediately.  The deadline to apply is 15^th June 2020.

Number of Positions: 1

Locations: Islamabad

Knowledge Platform (http://www.knowledgeplatform.com.pk/) is Pakistan’s leading edtech company. Our aim is to transform the education in Pakistan. Our edtech products are being used by thousands of students, teachers and schools around the globe. In Pakistan, our solution is being used by over 400 schools and 200,000 students. We are working in 40+ cities of Punjab and KPK. We are planning to increase our digital outreach and engagement through effective and smart marketing.

If you have a passion for digital user engagement through multichannel marketing with relevant skills to show your planning, management, execution and leadership skills; we would love to hear from you and talk further.

Experience in all of the below things:

• Proven track record of results driven by digital and conventional marketing campaigns
• Established track record of user growth through multichannel marketing
• Excellent skills to develop and execute marketing plans on all digital and conventional channels
• Should have a good experience in developing marketing collateral and content
• Experienced in managing digital communities, groups and websites
• Excellent skills to plan, track and report on deliverables
• Ability to develop and execute social media partnerships and relationships necessary to scale user growth
• Outstanding research and reporting capabilities
• Self-motivated and able to stretch to meet deadlines
• Experience of working with EdTech sector will be preferred

Key Expectations

• Complete ownership and commitment towards assigned responsibilities
• Understand KP products in depth
• Effectively plan and execute marketing campaigns
• Plan and develop marketing collateral as per requirements of the marketing campaigns
• Ensure that KP websites are always upto date with new content
• Providing guidelines to setup new web pages and sites as required
• Ensure KPIs for marketing campaigns, monitor them on regular basis and adapt to meet targets
• Delivering on business growth targets
• Ensuring that marketing targets are achieved on time
• Conducting market research as required by job functions
• Actively coming up with new ideas and trends in digital marketing

Conditions and application

Reporting: CEO Pakistan

Experience: Min 4 years and max 8 years.

Salary: PKR 70k to 100k depending on experience and skills

Please email your resume to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with job title in the subject.

No. of positions: 1

Knowledge Platform is a blended learning solutions company. We use technology to make quality education available in classrooms and online. Our content includes videos, assessments, and games, and is used in over 300 schools all over Pakistan. It is also available online for free at www.learnsmartpakistan.org.

We are currently looking for motivated and tech-savvy educationists to join our content development team. The content developer will be expected to create educational content for grades 1 – 5 for English. This educational content will be in the form of videos, interactive modules, games and assessments, to be used online and in a digital classroom setting.

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Creation of content for a digitally enhanced primary school learning environment for language and literacy. This includes, but is not limited to:
• writing a script for a video lesson
• creating content for games
• creating animated presentations
• creating worksheets/assessments
• Ensuring content applicability to age, grade, and learning objectives

The selected candidate will work closely with a team of content developers, instructional designers, graphic designers, audio specialists, and video producers to create engaging and effective content that will impact thousands of schools across Asia.

Skills required

• Primary-level teaching experience
• Good understanding of various instructional models and pedagogical frameworks at a primary level
• Good interpersonal skills and collaborative team-player who can work under tight deadlines
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Some experience in the development of digital content

How to apply

Email your motivation letter and CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject Application: Content Developer – Primary English.

We are offering PKR 80 – 100K for the position, depending on experience.

For specific questions regarding this position, please email Maliha Javed Khan at mkhan@knowledgeplatform.com

Apply by 22^nd May, 2020

Number of Positions: 1

Locations: Sialkot

Primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Develop in-depth understanding of Company`s product
• Ensure targets for sales and deployment of Knowledge Platform’s blended learning solution are met
• Promote the company’s product by addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Provide feedback and support after solution deployment
• Provide trainings and conduct learning workshops/boot camps
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Devise and present ideas and strategies to improve the Business Development processes
• Plan and oversee new business development initiatives
• Create reports and plans for the prospective clients

Required Experience and Skills:

• 01 – 3 years of experience
• Experience in marketing and sales will be a plus
• Experience in customer support is a plus
• Strong business development skills required
• Interest/Experience in teaching will be preferred
• Strong Communication skills and IT fluency
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Pro-active, self-starting work approach and must be a team player

Education/Eligibility:

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Marketing, Management, Engineering, CS/IT or related discipline
• 70% travelling required

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject “Outreach and Sales Coordinator – Sialkot”

Number of positions: 3

Location: Islamabad

Knowledge Platform is a blended learning solutions company. We use technology to make quality education available in classrooms and online. Our content includes videos, assessments, and games, and is used in over 300 schools all over Pakistan. It is also available online for free at www.learnsmartpakistan.org.

We are currently looking for motivated and tech-savvy educationists to join our content development team. The content developer will be expected to create educational content for grades 1 – 5 for mathematics. This educational content will be in the form of videos, interactive modules, games and assessments, to be used online and in a digital classroom setting.

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Creation of content for digitally enhanced primary school learning environment for math. This includes, but is not limited to:
• writing a script for a video lesson
• creating content for games
• creating animated presentations
• creating worksheets/assessments
• Ensuring content applicability to age, grade, and learning objectives
• Analysing primary textbooks to develop taxonomies for math.

The selected candidate will work closely with a team of content developers, instructional designers, graphic designers, audio specialists, and video producers to create engaging and effective content that will impact thousands of schools across Asia.

Skills required

• Primary-level teaching experience
• Good understanding of various instructional models and pedagogical frameworks at a primary level
• Good interpersonal skills and collaborative team-player who can work under tight deadlines
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Some experience in the development of digital content

How to apply

Email your motivation letter and CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject Application: Content Developer – Primary Math.

We are offering PKR 80 – 100K for the position, depending on experience.

For specific questions regarding this position, please email Maliha Javed Khan at mkhan@knowledgeplatform.com

Apply by 22^nd May, 2020

Number of Positions: 1

Location: Islamabad

Required Skills:

• Should have at least 3-4 years of experience in relevant field.
• Must have expertise in Query Analysis, Execution Plan and optimization plus index/data management.
• Should have prior experience of System performance and optimization tuning.
• Should know about Support production systems for database problem resolution,
• Development of SQL procedures, triggers, views, functions and reports to support
enhancement to critical SQL based business systems.
• Experience resolving locking, dead lock issues.
• Expertise with creating maintaining data Lakes
• Should be comfortable working with Azure SQL Databases and other Azure products.
• Performs proactive activities and tasks required for optimization
of stability, performance and architecture
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth
evaluation of variable factors
• Evaluates SQL efficiency and makes recommendations for improvements to
optimize system performance
• (Big Plus) Experience in Apache / Azure Frameworks for Big Data

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject
“Database Administrator”

Number of Positions: 1

Location: Karachi

Reporting to: Training and Support Lead

Salary range: PKR 50,000 – PKR 75,000

Experience: 3-5 years

Primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Build strong relationships with schools, teachers and other relevant stakeholders
• Extensive travelling to visit schools
• Teacher training
• In-school support (pedagogy, adoption, observations etc.)
• Technical and IT support
• Reports creation and sharing with schools/headquarter
• Liaison with head quarter teams
• Work closely with outreach team

Required Skills:

• Teaching experience
• Training experience
• Support experience
• Project management
• 70% travelling required

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject “Training and Support Executive – Karachi”.

Number of Positions: 1

Location: Islamabad Salary: 45,000 – 100,000 PKR/ month

Experience: 2-3 years Reports to: Technology Lead

Requirements:

• Fresh to 3 years of experience in development using Microsoft based web technologies.
• Strong analytical competence and problem solving skills.
• Experience of developing scalable web applications using C#, ASP.Net MVC, Web API, SQL Server.
• Solid understanding of HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Angular Js.
• Strong OOP concepts and implementation experience.
• Good Knowledge of SQL Development (Stored Procedures, Views, Query Optimization, etc.)
• Experience of software development using Agile methodology is desired.
• Highly self-motivated individual with strong commitment to meet deadlines and ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science/Software Engineering.

To apply send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com

Number of Positions: 1

Locations: Abbottabad

Primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Develop in-depth understanding of Company`s product
• Ensure targets for sales and deployment of Knowledge Platform’s blended learning solution are met
• Promote the company’s product by addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Provide feedback and support after solution deployment
• Provide trainings and conduct learning workshops/boot camps
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Devise and present ideas and strategies to improve the Business Development processes
• Plan and oversee new business development initiatives
• Create reports and plans for the prospective clients

Required Experience and Skills:

• 01 – 3 years of experience
• Experience in marketing and sales will be a plus
• Experience in customer support is a plus
• Strong business development skills required
• Interest/Experience in teaching will be preferred
• Strong Communication skills and IT fluency
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Pro-active, self-starting work approach and must be a team player

Education/Eligibility:

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Marketing, Management, Engineering, CS/IT or related discipline
• Travelling: 70% travel required

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject “Regional Coordinator – Abbottabad”.

About the Project

The birds & bees project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Knowledge Platform Pvt (Ltd) is the only Pakistani organisation to win this grant among 15 other grantees from across the world. The year-long project is a one-of-a-kind pilot programme.

Birds & Bees is designed on the principle of informal education in an informal setup. We call it “learning with nature”. Through this project, we aim to teach young learners 21^st century skills, which include but are not limited to critical thinking; creativity and innovation; communication and collaboration, and civic literacy and global awareness. The rationale behind this innovative project is to give young Pakistanis the opportunity to explore learning through unusual means and to develop an interest in environmental conservation.

This project offers a unique opportunity for learners to explore new areas of vocational interest and to understand the significance of preserving our natural environment. The project is designed to build the capacity of learners through multiple hands-on activities. Through this programme, they will learn the concepts of entrepreneurship, and they will be challenged to be innovative, creative, to think and analyse critical problems, to communicate and collaborate with other team members, and develop a sense of civic responsibility.

Job Description

Position: Project lead

Duration: 1 year contract

Reporting to: CEO

Experience required: 3-5 years

Location: Islamabad

Key Responsibilities 

• Under the supervision of the CEO, work on scaling up the programme.
• Design and conduct workshops and projects for the low-cost private schools within Islamabad, on school site and off-site at Trail 5
• Scope new schools within Islamabad and Rawalpindi to bring on board as our partner schools for the birds & bees project
• Regularly improve the workshop content according to the needs of the students
• Liaison with the outreach team to schedule workshops in the different partner and new schools
• Work closely with the content team to develop new offline and online content
• Work closely with the graphic designers to design social media posts
• Work closely with the marketing team to effectively showcase project progress on all relevant platforms
• Manage the social media handles for the project
• Manage short term consultants
• Work closely with the admin team to arrange the workshops
• Regularly visit the learning centre and ensure its completion
• Maintain all project relevant data on the sharepoint

Skills required

Educational Skills:

Masters degree in Environmental Science, Development Studies, Social Sciences

Professional Skills:

• Proficient English and Urdu language
• Excellent writing skills
• Ability to understand and resolve complex situations
• Self-motivated and ethically strong
• Team player with strong leadership qualities

Number of Positions: 01

Locations: Lahore and Faisalabad

Salary: 35,000 – 50,000 PKR/month

Primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Develop in-depth understanding of Company`s product
• Ensure targets for deployment of Knowledge Platform`s blended learning solution are met
• Assist teachers to use digital content in conducting lessons in class, and provide recommendations on best teaching practices
• Provide support and feedback after solution deployment
• Provide trainings and conduct learning workshops/boot camps
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Devise and present ideas and strategies to improve the support and engagement processes
• Create reports and plans for the prospective clients

Required Experience and Skills:

• 1-3 years of experience
• Experience in teaching will be preferred
• Experience in customer support is a plus
• Strong communication and IT fluency
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Pro-active, self-starting work approach and must be a team player
• Detail oriented, organized and able to multi-task
• Takes initiative and able to work under pressure

Education/Eligibility:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Education Management, Engineering, CS/IT, Business Administration or related discipline
• Travelling: 70% travel required

Training Period:

Selected candidates will undergo extensive training of 1-2 months at Knowledge Platform`s Islamabad office.

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject ‘Training and Support Executive-<City Name>’

Number of Positions: 1

Locations: Multan

Primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Develop in-depth understanding of Company`s product
• Ensure targets for sales and deployment of Knowledge Platform’s blended learning solution are met
• Promote the company’s product by addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Provide feedback and support after solution deployment
• Provide trainings and conduct learning workshops/boot camps
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Devise and present ideas and strategies to improve the Business Development processes
• Plan and oversee new business development initiatives
• Create reports and plans for the prospective clients

Required Experience and Skills:

• 01 – 3 years of experience
• Experience in marketing and sales will be a plus
• Experience in customer support is a plus
• Strong business development skills required
• Interest/Experience in teaching will be preferred
• Strong Communication skills and IT fluency
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Pro-active, self-starting work approach and must be a team player

Education/Eligibility:

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Marketing, Management, Engineering, CS/IT or related discipline
• 70% travelling required

Please send your CV to jobs@knowledgeplatform.com with the subject “Regional Coordinator – City Name”.