Content Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kenya.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the final editorial review and authorization of all learner-facing content across Quest, Quest Ascend, and Quest Launchpad.

• Establish and uphold content standards regarding learning outcomes, tone, reading level, word limits, factual accuracy, and cultural relevance.

• Document these standards within a comprehensive style guide.

• Evaluate content for pedagogical effectiveness, clarity of learning outcomes, logical progression, and valid assessments.

• Ensure that content designed for AI scoring is structured to provide accurate, specific, and beneficial automated feedback.

• Mentor the Content Designer, Content Owner, and contracted writers through structured feedback processes.

• Confirm that guidance for post-school, university applications, and career paths aligns with current requirements in Kenya and other targeted markets.

• Maintain a predictable review schedule with agreed-upon turnaround times, making approval or revision decisions as necessary.

• Audit published content in relation to learner completion data and feedback.

• Initiate revisions when evidence suggests that content is ineffective.

• Provide strategic advice to the PSSP Lead on content strategy, sequencing, and product gaps.

• Identify quality risks proactively.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in curriculum leadership, instructional design, or editorial direction for educational products.

• Proven ability to set content standards for others.

• Profound understanding of pedagogy, learning progression, and assessment design.

• Experience in reviewing and approving large volumes of others' work.

• Capability to deliver specific, actionable, and developmental feedback.

• Exceptional command of written English and attention to editorial detail.

• Ability to maintain a consistent house style across multiple contributors.

• Familiarity with digital and blended learning formats.

• Capacity to work independently and remotely, managing a review queue within agreed turnaround times.

• Preferred experience in post-school transition, university applications, careers guidance, or entrepreneurship education.

• Preferred experience in reviewing AI-generated or AI-assisted learning content.

• Working knowledge of the Kenyan secondary and tertiary education landscape, including CBE pathways, KCSE, and university placement is preferred.

• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach.

• Commitment to youth safeguarding, learner privacy, accessible learning, and responsible AI usage.

• Alignment with Nova Pioneer’s mission.

• Proficiency in the English language is explicitly required, demonstrated by an excellent command of written English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to engage with a pan-African network of schools.

• Mission-driven work focused on developing African innovators and leaders.

• Collaborative opportunities with content designers, program staff, and product teams.

• Professional development through coaching and capability enhancement.