Head of Curriculum

Full-time · Nairobi (hybrid)

The product IS the curriculum. Five courses and 250 lessons are live today, covering AI foundations, job seeking, agriculture, ethics and AI safety. They need an owner who treats learning design as a craft. You will raise the bar on every lesson, keep content current as AI changes monthly, and define the assessment standard behind a certificate Kenyan employers learn to trust.

What you will do

• Own all five courses (250 lessons): accuracy, clarity and currency as the AI landscape shifts month to month.
• Write and edit bilingual lessons, English and Kiswahili, that a student reading on a phone, on a budget, actually finishes.
• Design assessments that mean something: unit quizzes, capstone projects and the certificate standard behind /verify.
• Ground every example in Kenyan reality: M-Pesa, matatu SACCOs, Gikomba, county offices, KCSE revision, smallholder farms.
• Partner on Rafiki: shape the tutor’s prompts and persona so it teaches the curriculum, not around it.
• Use completion and quiz data to find exactly where learners struggle, then fix those lessons.

What we are looking for

• 4+ years in curriculum development, instructional design, teaching or learning content.
• A course, program or body of teaching material you built that we can review.
• Full professional fluency in BOTH English and Kiswahili. Our content ships in both, and the Kiswahili must be excellent, not translated-sounding.
• Genuine daily fluency with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and beyond). You can only teach what you actually use.
• A learner-outcome mindset: you measure completion and assessment results, not just content shipped.

Nice to have (not required)

• Formal learning-science or assessment-design background.
• A network in Kenyan universities or TVET institutions.
• Experience teaching digital skills to first-time technology users.
• WhatsApp-based or low-bandwidth teaching formats.

What we offer

• A founding seat: meaningful equity plus a salary calibrated to our stage. We discuss it openly in the first conversation.
• Authorship of a curriculum built to reach hundreds of thousands of Kenyan learners.
• A live platform and real learners from day one. Your improvements ship the same week you write them.