Khan Academy Districts Proposal Manager

Position Overview

The Khan Academy Districts Proposal Manager is responsible for leading, planning, scheduling, and overseeing the timely development and delivery of high-quality responses to K-12 school, district, and state-level partnerships opportunities from pre-RFP to post-submission activities, in a fast-paced environment. This role will collaborate across sales, marketing, legal, finance, operations, product, and engineering to support our sales processes, drive revenue, win new customers, and grow existing customer accounts.

We are looking for someone with a creative vision, follow-through, and a desire to work for an organization where your contributions make an immediate impact. The ideal candidate understands accountability and is looking for a team that relies on complete transparency. Exceptional grammar, proofreading, and editing skills are a necessity. Strong internet/AI research skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and project coordination experience are keys to success in this role. Sensitivity to confidential matters is required.

The Districts Proposal Manager is a subject-matter expert for Khan Academy, our Khan Academy Districts partnerships, and Khanmigo, our AI-based student tutor and teaching assistant. Apply for this role if you are a fast learner, with the ability to understand our products and how our service offerings align with the RFP space. This role will report directly to the Leader of Operations, External Relations.

Requirements

• Exceptional grammar, proofreading, and editing skills.
• Strong internet/AI research skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Project coordination experience.
• Sensitivity to confidential matters.
• Ability to understand products and how service offerings align with the RFP space.
• Ability to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Running and continuously improving our procurement response and grant application processes for K-12 district and state-level RFI, RFQ, and RFPs.
• Monitor K-12 state and district-level procurements and grant opportunities on various databases, procurement platforms, and those presented to us by our consultants.
• Research prospect districts’ leadership, mission, learning plan, and goals to tailor RFP response to their specific needs.
• Review procurement requirements to assess alignment with our product and our overall terms of service.
• Recommend appropriate procurement opportunities to the team.
• Track procurement opportunities in Salesforce.
• Build and manage existing content library.
• Identify and implement process improvements.
• Write, prepare and package compliant, competitive and compelling proposals including effective collaboration across all relevant internal teams and stakeholders.
• Apply experience and best practices in proposal team management to ensure the timely delivery of proposal submissions that are fully compliant with solicitation instructions.
• Provide backup operational support to the Districts team when necessary.
• Ensure the high-quality content and appearance of final proposal deliverables by performing rigorous quality assurance.

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.

Application Instructions

Please refer to the official job posting for application instructions.

Company Information

• Mission: To deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
• Focus: K-12 and early college core academic subjects, with an emphasis on math and science.
• Reach: Over 155 million registered learners globally.
• Values: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
• Culture: Invests in people and professional development.

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