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Chief Education Officer/Co-Founder Profile

Impeccable AI

Position: Co-Founder & Chief Education Officer

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Position Overview

We're seeking a mission-driven educational leader who is AI savvy, believes in its capacity to help accomplish the goal and can already imagine how to design and oversee the curriculum, pedagogy, and community partnerships for Impeccable AI—an offline-first AI literacy agent for children primarily in the Global South but available everywhere. This role requires someone who can translate complex AI concepts into age-appropriate learning experiences while respecting diverse cultural contexts and educational traditions.

This is not a typical curriculum design role. You'll be creating education that teaches children to be skeptical of AI hype, resistant to manipulation, and critical of the systems we're building. You'll work with communities to adapt content for their contexts, not impose Western educational models on Global South learners.

Key Challenge: Design an AI literacy curriculum that empowers children across three age groups, 10+ languages, and dozens of cultural contexts—without collecting data on any of them.

Core Responsibilities

Phase 1: Curriculum Foundation

1. Design a core curriculum framework

   • Develop learning objectives for three age groups (8-11, 12-14, 15-16)

   • Create a pedagogical approach: inquiry-based, culturally adaptive, critical thinking-focused

   • Map AI literacy concepts to age-appropriate explanations and activities

   • Design "polite redirect" strategies for off-mission requests

2. Develop content architecture

   • Build modular content system: Core (universal) + Context (adaptable) + Cultural Wrapper (local)

   • Create conversation flows and branching dialogue structures

   • Work with AI (Claude, etc.) to generate and refine educational scenarios

   • Develop facilitator guides and training materials

3. Establish educational principles

   • Define what "AI literacy" means for different age groups

   • Create an assessment framework without individual student data collection

   • Design for low-literacy and multilingual contexts

   • Build safeguards against misinformation and harmful content

Phase 2: Community Co-Design

4. Lead pilot community partnerships

   • Identify and engage pilot communities (likely Uganda, India, or similar)

   • Facilitate co-design sessions with local educators

   • Adapt curriculum based on community feedback and cultural contexts

   • Build trust and authentic partnerships with schools and community organizations

5. Train and support facilitators

   • Develop a facilitator training program

   • Create resources for teachers with limited tech experience

   • Design peer learning and support networks

   • Build feedback mechanisms that don't surveil students

Phase 3: Scale & Adaptation

6. Oversee curriculum evolution

   • Manage content updates and cultural adaptations

   • Build a library of context modules for different regions

   • Review community-contributed scenarios and translations

   • Ensure quality and mission alignment across adaptations

7. Build educational partnerships

   • Establish relationships with Ministries of Education

   • Partner with implementation NGOs (BRAC, Pratham, Save the Children)

   • Connect with EdTech research organizations

   • Represent Impeccable AI in education policy conversations

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have (Non-Negotiable)

Educational Expertise

• ✅ 5+ years in education, curriculum design, or instructional design

• ✅ Experience teaching or designing for children ages 8-18

• ✅ Understanding of age-appropriate pedagogy and child development

• ✅ Ability to explain complex concepts simply

Global South Context

• ✅ Experience working in or with Global South communities

• ✅ Understanding of low-resource educational contexts

• ✅ Cultural humility and anti-colonial educational philosophy

• ✅ Commitment to community-led adaptation rather than top-down imposition

Digital/AI Literacy

• ✅ Strong understanding of AI, algorithms, and digital technology

• ✅ Ability to critically evaluate AI systems and their impacts

• ✅ Knowledge of digital literacy, media literacy, or information literacy frameworks

• ✅ Understanding of online safety and child protection principles

Curriculum Design

• ✅ Proven ability to create educational content and learning experiences

• ✅ Experience with inquiry-based, constructivist, or critical pedagogy

• ✅ Understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

• ✅ Ability to design for diverse learning styles and abilities

Highly Desirable

International Education Experience

• 🔸 Experience teaching in Africa, South Asia, or Southeast Asia

• 🔸 Work with multilingual or multicultural classrooms

• 🔸 Understanding of formal, non-formal, and informal education systems

• 🔸 Knowledge of education in conflict-affected or crisis contexts

EdTech & Innovation

• 🔸 Experience with educational technology design

• 🔸 Understanding of offline-first or low-connectivity education solutions

• 🔸 Familiarity with open educational resources (OER)

• 🔸 Knowledge of learning sciences and evidence-based practices

Partnership & Community Engagement

• 🔸 Experience building partnerships with schools, NGOs, or governments

• 🔸 Facilitating participatory design or co-creation processes

• 🔸 Community organizing or grassroots education work

• 🔸 Training teachers or facilitators

Languages & Cultural Competence

• 🔸 Multilingual abilities (especially French, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Swahili)

• 🔸 Cross-cultural communication skills

• 🔸 Understanding of postcolonial education theory

• 🔸 Experience adapting curriculum across cultural contexts

What Makes This Role Unique

The Educational Philosophy Challenge

We're building something that doesn't fit existing categories:

NOT a STEM curriculum (though we teach how AI works)
NOT digital citizenship (though we teach online safety)
NOT career prep (though we discuss AI's economic impacts)
NOT media literacy (though we teach critical evaluation)

We ARE teaching:

• How to recognize and resist manipulation by AI systems

• Why privacy matters and how to protect it

• How algorithms shape what we see and believe

• When AI helps vs. when it harms

• How to use AI as a tool, not to be used by it

The Cultural Adaptation Challenge

You'll need to balance:

• Universal principles (privacy, critical thinking)

• Cultural sensitivity (local examples, appropriate communication styles)

• Avoiding harm (not imposing Western values OR enabling harmful local norms)

Example dilemmas you'll navigate:

• How do we teach privacy in cultures with different concepts of individual vs. collective identity?

• How do we discuss AI bias in contexts where different forms of discrimination are normalized?

• How do we adapt the "digital elder" persona across cultures with different authority structures?

The "No Data" Challenge

Most educational technology collects data to:

• Personalize learning

• Prove impact

• Improve content

• Report to funders

We refuse to do any of that with individual students.

You'll need to:

• Design quality assurance without student tracking

• Measure impact at the community level, not the individual level

• Improve content through facilitator feedback, not algorithmic optimization

• Trust teachers' judgment over data dashboards

Compensation & Equity

Current Reality: We're a volunteer-driven startup in the pre-funding stage. This requires complete honesty.

The Honest Truth

Right Now:

• Salary: $0 - This is volunteer work initially

• Role: Co-Founder & Chief Education Officer

• Commitment: We're asking you to join as a "gift to humanity"

• Timeline: Financial compensation TBD based on funding success

Everyone on the team is currently volunteering. We believe this mission matters enough to build before we're paid to build it.

When We Secure Funding

If We Launch as Nonprofit:

• Salary: TBD based on funding secured

  • Target range once funded: $65K-120K (depending on location, experience, and grant amounts)

  • Competitive with mission-driven nonprofits like Learning Equality, Pratham, and Room to Read

• Equity: N/A (nonprofit structure)

• Benefits: Leadership role, significant autonomy, global impact, co-founder recognition

If We Launch as For-Profit (or Hybrid):

• Salary: TBD based on funding/revenue

  • Ramp from volunteer → modest stipend → market rate as funding grows

  • Target eventual range: $80K-150K

• Equity: 15-25% co-founder equity (vesting over 4 years)

• Model: Mission-protected structure (B-Corp, PBC, or equivalent)

What We Can Offer Now

• Ownership: True co-founder role with decision-making power

• Impact: Design education that reaches millions of children

• Flexibility: Fully remote, work on your schedule

• Mission: Build curriculum with integrity from day one

• Voice: Shape educational philosophy and approach

• Community: Team of mission-driven volunteers

• Story: Prove ethical AI education can empower children globally

Why This Might Work For You

This role makes sense if you:

• ✅ Have savings or other income to sustain yourself (6-12 months minimum)

• ✅ Believe AI literacy education for children is worth building without immediate payment

• ✅ Want to design education that matters more than you want a paycheck

• ✅ See this as an investment in transforming how children learn about AI

• ✅ Are at a life stage where you can take this risk (sabbatical, between roles, financially stable)

Our Funding Plan

Timeline to First Funding: 6-12 months (realistic estimate)

Your Compensation Once Funded: First priority after securing grant/investment

Key Educational Challenges You'll Solve:

1. Age-Appropriate AI Literacy

Challenge: How do you teach 8-year-olds about algorithmic bias? How do 15-year-olds learn about AI without getting overwhelmed or cynical?

Your Approach:

• Age 8-11: Foundation (pattern recognition, privacy basics, spotting manipulation)

• Age 12-14: Application (how algorithms work, data literacy, algorithmic bias)

• Age 15-16: Agency (economic impacts, civic dimensions, building with AI)

• Scaffold complexity while maintaining engagement and hope

2. Teaching Critical Thinking About AI Without Expertise

Challenge: Facilitators may have limited tech knowledge. How do they teach AI literacy confidently?

Your Approach:

• Design facilitator guides that build teacher confidence

• Create scripted conversations teachers can facilitate without deep tech knowledge

• Develop peer learning models where students discover together

• Build teacher training that's accessible and empowering

3. Cultural Adaptation at Scale

Challenge: Same lesson needs to work in rural Uganda, urban Mumbai, and remote Indonesia.

Your Approach:

• Separate universal concepts from culturally specific examples

• Create library of adaptable scenarios for different contexts

• Train facilitators to localize rather than prescribe exact content

• Build community review processes for cultural appropriateness

4. Assessment Without Surveillance

Challenge: How do we know students are learning without testing and tracking them?

Your Approach:

• Focus on facilitator observations and reflections

• Community-level indicators (teacher confidence, parent feedback)

• Qualitative case studies rather than quantitative metrics

• Trust professional judgment over data dashboards

5. Protection from Misinformation

Challenge: The agent needs to teach about AI without spreading misinformation or oversimplifying complex topics.

Your Approach:

• Review all AI-generated content for accuracy

• Build fact-checking processes with subject matter experts

• Design conversations that acknowledge nuance and uncertainty

• Create mechanisms for content correction when needed

Working with the Team

Collaboration with CTO

You'll work closely with our technical co-founder to:

• Translate educational goals into conversational AI design

• Review AI-generated dialogue for pedagogical quality

• Design branching conversation flows that support learning

• Test prototypes with an educational lens

Collaboration with Funding Lead

You'll support fundraising by:

• Articulating educational impact and theory of change

• Writing curriculum sections of grant proposals

• Connecting funders with community partners

• Demonstrating educational quality to potential supporters

Collaboration with Communities

You'll spend significant time:

• Listening to teachers and facilitators about what students need

• Adapting curriculum based on community feedback

• Building trust through authentic partnership

• Respecting local educational expertise and wisdom

Application Instructions (See form below)

Send CV to: careers@impeccableai.org with Subject: "Co-Founder, Chief Education Officer - Impeccable AI"

If you make the shortlist, you’ll be asked:

1. Why this mission matters to you

   • What draws you to AI literacy education for children?

   • What's your personal connection to education, child protection, or the Global South?

   • Why do you believe children deserve honest education about AI?

2. Relevant educational experience

   • Teaching, curriculum design, or educational program experience

   • Work in Global South or cross-cultural contexts

   • Examples of curriculum you've designed

   • Experience with community partnerships or co-design

3. Curriculum vision

   • If you were starting tomorrow, how would you approach designing AI literacy for 10-year-olds?

   • How would you adapt the same lesson for rural Uganda vs. urban India?

   • How do you balance protecting children from AI harms vs. empowering them to use AI?

   • What's your philosophy on assessment without individual student data?

4. Practical details

   • Location & timezone

   • Availability (full-time, part-time initially?)

   • Timeline (when could you start?)

   • Languages spoken

5. Portfolio

   • Examples of curriculum or educational content you've created

   • Writing samples on education, technology, or related topics

   • References from teachers, students, or community partners

   • LinkedIn profile or resume

FAQ for Candidates

Q: Do you have funding?
A: Not yet. You are joining at initial design and business concept launch. This is a bet on mission and team.

Q: What if I can only commit part-time initially?
A: That might work for the first months during the curriculum design phase. The faster we develop our prototype the faster we get funded.

Q: Do I need to be an AI expert?
A: No! You need to understand AI well enough to design education about it, but you're not building the AI. That's the CTO's job.

Q: I've never worked in Africa/Asia. Can I still apply?
A: Maybe, if you have deep cross-cultural education experience and genuine humility about learning from communities. But lived experience in target regions is a significant advantage.

Q: What if I disagree with the curriculum direction?
A: Good! We want someone with strong educational opinions who can defend their approach. This is a co-founder role—you'll shape the direction.

Q: How do I design a curriculum without knowing which communities we'll work with?
A: Start with core concepts and modular architecture. We'll adapt together once we select pilot communities.

Q: Can I work remotely?
A: Yes. We're remote-first.

Q: What if communities want curriculum changes that seem harmful?
A: This is a real tension. We'll need to navigate it together with clear principles and difficult conversations.

Q: I'm from the Global South. Do you have a bias toward that?
A: Yes, strong positive bias. Understanding education systems and cultural contexts from lived experience is invaluable.

Why This Role Matters

You're not just designing curriculum. You're creating a model for how children should learn and engage with AI.