Drive Impact through Data - Become an Impact Associate at Oppia

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If you’re interested in data strategy and storytelling for impact, with the aim of helping underserved children gain access to education, this is the volunteer role for you! Oppia is looking for passionate individuals to join our Impact Tracking Team to measure the impact of the organization, and provide strategic advice to enable Oppia to continue providing free educational services for underserved learners around the world who are unable to afford them.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiJICeqoj77FO-s8CieLNGmNU6ILpwPgNyy7ZxVRA0UU3fQ/viewform

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our free-to-use platform, Oppia (https://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. In the wake of COVID-19, millions more children are also seeing interruptions in their daily lives, stability, and education - making it even more difficult than before for many students to get the education they need to succeed.

The Impact Measurement team focuses on the numbers that matter most. We create and refine the Theory of Change, which guides how we measure Oppia's impact. By tracking key metrics, we capture and highlight Oppia's influence. This informs our leaders' strategic decisions, and ensures that resources are allocated to areas that bring the biggest impact. Beyond data analysis, we take these insights and craft narratives to communicate our progress to our supporters and the wider community, ensuring they understand the real-world impact of their contributions.

The role is responsible for the following:

Deliverables

• Take lead on drafting Oppia’s quarterly impact tracking report
• Assist in preparing (1) a bi-annual strategic review, (2) an annual Oppia report, and (3) reviewing Oppia’s Theory of Change (whenever necessary)

Areas of Responsibilities

• Run a repeatable and lightweight process for impact tracking, and run it every quarter . This process includes:
• Collecting data from our metrics dashboard (on Google Analytics)
• Engaging various Oppia teams (e.g. Engineering, Content, Programs) to collect the relevant metrics on a quarterly basis
• Analyzing trends on Oppia’s performance (e.g. quarterly or annual improvements, dropping performances), and identifying areas for strategic review
• Other tasks may include (as needed):
• Update the dashboard for new metrics, and work with the engineering team to include new events / data querying for metrics that are not yet available.
• Propose changes to existing processes to make the availability and collection of data as seamless/effortless as possible.

We welcome individuals who are willing to learn and grow through this opportunity, though for this role it would be helpful to have some prior experience in data analytics and strategy.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness, and conducts rigorous user testing and RCTs to validate the lessons we offer. Learners using Oppia’s lessons have seen gains of 50+% from pre-test to post-test.
• Oppia's contributors actively help to provide students around the world with basic education. Please see https://medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 and https://medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 for examples of our current work.

What Our Impact Team Contributes

• Authoring and reviewing the Theory of Change to accurately measure Oppia’s impact;
• Tracking metrics based on the Theory of Change to help us understand how Oppia is doing;
• Analyzing the data to help the leadership make big-picture strategic decisions about the future of the foundation;
• Communicating our progress to funders and the broader community.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiJICeqoj77FO-s8CieLNGmNU6ILpwPgNyy7ZxVRA0UU3fQ/viewform