Kabir's Prep is seeking a Physics expert to join our team as a content writer.
This position offers an opportunity to work on our MCAT Question Bank and future science related products (AP + DAT). This role affords the opportunity to work on passage and question creation and collaborate with a team of educated professionals to ensure that we release the highest quality product to our students.
Kabir's Prep is a growing educational company that is focused on providing high quality full service solutions to students. We offer a suite of products and services for each division of the company consisting of but not limited to a question bank, foundational modules/flashcards, concept video bank, and live tutoring. As an organization we pride ourselves in providing employees a stable and consistent workplace with long-term growth opportunities (promotions, raises, and skill growth). We want employee's joining our team to have the same mindset we do: "education is a creative and simple way to communicate with the learners of this world."
Qualifications:
- Education: Prefer applicants with either PhD in Physics, currently pursuing a PhD in Physics, or an undergraduate degree in Physics with significant experience with test construction
- Skill #1: Ability to showcase passage/question/explanation ability for MCAT style or similar questions
- Skill #2: Comfortable with basic technology including Microsoft Office and Slack (communication application). Also comfortable with math type, chemdraw, and LMS input
- Skill #3: Professional and adept in communication and working with a team. Understands deadlines and can take feedback constructively without letting it personally affect quality of work
- Skill #4: Think analytically and understand problem-solving, multi-step problems (beyond recall), and speaking to students on their level
Job Responsibilities :
- Will submit to work a junior and managing editor for science.
- Writes MCAT chemistry passages, questions, and explanations
- Work with an editor to implement feedback and an illustrator to help guide graphic creation
- Has and applies knowledge of standardized testing to item creation
Benefits :
- Competitive compensation $40-60 per hour (based on experience)
- Remote only position. Can be international or domestic
- Offer a W2 or 1099 status depending on the applicant and how they prefer to work
- Hours 10 hours minimum per week and up to 40 hours per week maximum (flexible)
- Can work at any time and any day. Only ask you respond to feedback during monday through friday within 24 hours.
- Retention: This position is a multi-year position with long term career growth. We retain most of our staff if possible and value this over retraining and hiring new.
- Time off: unpaid time off permitted at any time with notice. unscheduled time off parental leave, bereavement, and sick days are no problem. Paid time off or other bonuses offered based on length of work, rate, and experience. All holidays are off. All weekends are off.
- Maternity leave: After the first year maternity leave permitted for full time employees that are w2 with up to 3 months off and 6 of those weeks paid leave.
- Leadership: we have an involved CEO and editors that will help grow your skill and be as supportive and direct with feedback.
- Insurance: We offer either insurance coverage or a stipend for all employees depending on their full/ part time status
- Flexible Start Date: Need some time before you begin or want to start immediately? No worries, we can accommodate you in both situations.
Job Application : Screening: All applicants are screened based on the resume, cover letter, and a sample piece of work. We will contact you back in under a week with an answer.
- Resume: Resubmission of a resume is not required. We evaluate the resume for specefic subject based experience
- Cover Letter: Applicants with a cover letter have a higher rate of interviews by almost 4 times. We want cover letters to address why your experience aligns with the job opportunity and why your personality would be a good fit. Our goal is to get a candidate who aligns with our needs and culture. If that is you we will offer everything we can to acquire and retain you.
- Sample piece of work: All applicants are required to submit a sample work to kabir@kabirsprep.com . This sample work ideally should be an MCAT question/answer set they have worked on. If they have worked on something that is similarly appropriate in difficulty that will suffice. We do not want rudimentary question sets that involve simple recall of information. We also do not want curriculum planning or lecture planning. We also want to avoid overly complex information that would be seen as not fair . Our goal is questions that show multi step problem solving that are MCAT like. If you'd like to access mcat sample questions here are directions to get the free mcat test from online: https://offers.aamc.org/free-practice-exam
Thank you for taking the time to read our job description and we look forward to welcoming you to our team
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Pay: $40.00 - $60.00 per hour
Expected hours: 10 – 40 per week
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
Schedule:
- Choose your own hours
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote