ALX Africa
Learning Scientist
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Africa
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Africa
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $165k–$260k a year, a typical range taken from 595 mid-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Africa.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, ALX Africa"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
About ALX Africa
ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and re-skill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.
With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.
We achieve this by:
Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that support them at all stages of their career journey.
Our impact thus far:
347k+ graduates since 2020
257k youth in work
31k youth starting own ventures
60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs
Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.
Role Summary
ALX teaches at scale across Africa, and Project A is the AI layer of that: AI profiles and onboards learners, guides them through projects, and a competency engine decides what they should learn next. Every one of those products embeds pedagogical assumptions — about scaffolding, feedback, productive struggle, and what an AI guide should and shouldn’t do for a learner. The Learning Scientist makes those assumptions explicit, grounds them in modern learning science, and tests them. There is a proper handover: the role is currently held by a team member who transitions out in about six months, so you overlap with her rather than start cold.
You will work in collaboration with Anthropic Engineers, a team of AI engineers, product managers and data scientists to design world class learning experiences.
Specific Responsibilities
Pedagogical Direction
Guide the pedagogical decisions across the platform — input at design time, learning-efficacy judgment at eval time.
Adapt and interpret the ALX learning framework so the platform is informed by real pedagogy rather than decorated with it.
Experimentation & Product Collaboration
Design experiments against the platform’s core pedagogical assumptions, run with our experimentation function — for example, is the tutor guidance helping learners or crutching them?
Assist in designing and evaluating the AI products alongside engineers, translating learning science into concrete product decisions.
Skill Requirements - Essential
Requirements
- ·Learning science: solid grounding — you can cite and apply modern frameworks, not just intuitions from teaching.
- ·AI literacy: you understand what LLM-based tools can and can’t do, well enough to co-design them with engineers.
- ·Experiment design: hypotheses, measures, and enough methodological rigour to test learning claims honestly.
- ·Desirable (not required): prior EdTech product work; familiarity with competency frameworks or knowledge tracing; experience with African education contexts.
- ·Essential Traits for Success
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at ALX Africa, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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