Do you enjoy graphic design? Help illustrate lessons for kids!

If you’re a skilled graphic designer who is passionate about helping underserved children gain access to education, keep reading! Oppia is looking for a graphic designer to assist our Lesson Creation team with creating fun, engaging graphics to accompany our Basic Mathematics lessons.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/XcLRg9635Xi2ZUtF9

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 web platform and Android app, the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve. Our lessons have reached over 2,000,000 users, and learners using our basic mathematics curriculum have seen gains of over 50% from pre-test to post-test. We actively work with contributors from around the world to help provide students with basic education; these blog posts (post 1, post 2) describe examples of our current work.

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. Students around the world face difficulties accessing quality education due to conflict, discrimination, and lack of teacher training - and, in the wake of COVID-19, millions more children are also seeing interruptions in their daily lives, stability, and education, which makes it even more difficult for them to get the education they need to succeed.

Our community of volunteers has created a series of novel and engaging story-based mathematics lessons that have proved highly engaging and effective with students from underserved communities. Because many of the students we work with aren’t proficient in English, images in the lessons that transcend the language barrier play a critical role in making the lessons welcoming and engaging.

We're looking for someone who enjoys graphic design and is interested in using their skills to help build fun and engaging stories for our learners, so that we can make education as accessible as possible for students around the world!

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
• Oppia’s current library consists of more than 2,000 lessons.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness. Our continuous improvement process involves rigorous user testing and RCTs to ensure we create high quality educational materials catered to the needs of our most underserved global learners.
• Oppia has a community of hundreds of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.

What Our Lesson Illustrators and Graphic Designers Contribute

• Illustrate mathematical concepts in a way that helps simplify them for learners from different backgrounds
• Create designs and illustrations to accompany our lesson scripts and content
• Edit illustrations based on learner feedback, in order to make them clearer or more appealing

Since we are a global, volunteer-run team, we also ask that you also be responsive to emails, so that the team can communicate effectively with each other!

If you’d like to help out, please fill in our application form at https://forms.gle/XcLRg9635Xi2ZUtF9. Thank you!