Seeking Part-Time Social Media Community Ambassadors with Homeschooling Expertise (Fully Remote)

Written By Manisha Snoyer (co-founder of Modulo)

Homeschool parents and former or current homeschoolers encouraged to apply.

Our Mission

At Modulo, our mission is to help every child thrive through access to compassionate, individualized education that honors their unique talents and needs. Our approach is to bring learning resources, community, and expert support to families who want to play a greater role in their child's education.

Our Work

Currently we are focused on building a vibrant, diverse community of secular homeschoolers. Our ultimate vision is to build a decentralized K12 school school system that is compassionate, equitable and accessible to all, honoring the unique needs of families and communities.

To learn more about Modulo, please visit
https://www.modulo.app/

About the position

We have just been awarded a grant to help expand access to homeschooling to underresourced families. We are looking for 10 community leaders to help us to bring resources and support to families and grow our community through social media and our curates Slack community.

Each Community leader will take the lead on a different social media channel, building a strategy, creating and posting content, offering helpful content and engaging with families, offering them expertise and support around homeschooling.

Each leader will take ownership of one of the following channels.

Channels

Facebook

Hacker News

Instagram

LinkedIn

Pinterest

Quora

Reddit

Substack (engaging with other writers, not curating content)

Twitter

TikTok

Youtube (editing and posting existing clips)

Responsibilities include

1. Collaborate with team to set social media marketing goals for your channel that align to business objectives
2. Social Listening: Learn everything you can about our audience
2. Research other organizations in the space, and see where we can add value
4. Conduct a social media audit
5. Set up accounts and improve existing profiles
6. Create inspirational content with visually appealing using Canva, drawing on clips from our Youtube channel, podca
7. Create a social media content calendar, based on when most of our demographic is online
8. Interact with our community and people curious about homeschooling, depending on your social media channel, for example through social media groups and searching for the term #homeschool and responding to queries
9. Test, evaluate, and adjust your strategy
10. Communicate metrics and milestones to the team
11. Collaborate and brainstorm with other social media managers to improve strategy
12. Engage in our private slack community, offering support and advice to other families

About you

This is the ideal job for a homeschool parent who is deeply passionate about empowering underresourced families to curate their children’s education, who has an active social media presence and is looking for flexible work, while expanding access to homeschooling.

A background in education, parenting, child psychology and development is a plus.

The time commitment is approximately 4-5 hours a week, though this might increase if we find that we're experiencing success in our efforts in the channel you’re working in.

We are more interested in finding someone who is passionate and knowledgable about homeschooling, and excited to learn and grow as a social media expert and community leader, than someone who has an extensive resumé.

You don't have to be a homeschool parent, but it is our vast preference.

Qualifications

We would love to find someone with the following qualities

  • Expertise in secular homeschooling

  • Active presence on one of the social media channels we’ve chosen to focus on

  • Experience with Canva (good design aesthetic)

  • Self-organized

  • Highly eager to learn and grow

  • Passionate about building an education system that's compassionate, equitable and accessible to all

Nuts and Bolts

Community ambassadors will be paid for up to 4-5 hours of work + commissions.

You can set your own hours, but we may have occasional team meetings to connect and brainstorm.

If interested, we would appreciate if you could send us a link to your own Facebook profile, so we can get a sense of how you interact on the platform.

Please feel free to reach out directly with questions to manisha[at]modulo[dot]app

Job Type

Part-time, Contract

Compensation

  • $30.00 per hour

  • 50% commission on the first purchase of new paid subscribers.(Commissions typically range from $3.50 to $35 per customer)

  • Free lifetime membership in The Modulo Community, which includes personalized support from educators and certified child life specialists, membership in our chess and minecraft clubs and access to vetted online teachers, and free & discounted curriculum.

Benefits

  • Flexible schedule

Schedule

  • Self-determined schedule

Work Location

Remote

Manisha Snoyer (co-founder of Modulo)

For the last 20 years, I’ve taught over 2000 children in 3 countries (of all socio-economic backgrounds). I pioneered an English language program in a conflict region in the Middle East. I’ve worked as a bilingual public school teacher at some of the highest and lowest performing public schools and in all five boroughs of NYC. I’ve tutored 18 subjects in three languages to some of the wealthiest families in NYC, San Francisco and Paris to make up for shortcomings in private schools they were paying up to $60,000 a year to attend.

Since 2015, I’ve helped hundreds of parents start microschools (way before this was a household buzzword). I founded CottageClass, the first marketplace for microschools and learning pods that was part of the Techstars 2018 class. In 2019, I created a virtual learning program to help families through the pandemic, a free online math tutoring program (masteryhour.org), and schoolclosures.org, a hotline developed in collaboration with Twilio and 80 other partners including Khan Academy, Revolution Foods and the Crisis Text Line, that served 100,000 families impacted by school closures.

I’ve climbed trees with children in forest schools in San Francisco, and tested new digital apps with kids in seven countries.

I’ve also coached dozens of families at different stages in their homeschooling journey. Most recently, I founded Modulo with homeschooling dad, best-selling author and tech entrepreneur Eric Ries, to help families curate their children’s education, social and childcare experiences drawing from a diverse array of in-person and online resources.


During the last three years, I’ve devoted much of my time to reviewing and testing secular homeschooling curriculum and other resource. I’ve spent the last three years talking to thousands of secular homeschooling families, and poring over tens of thousands of secular curriculum reviews and testing physical curriculum and digital apps for with hundreds of students to find the highest quality, most engaging, personalized learning materials for every type of learner.

I’ve spoken about homeschooling and modular learning at multiple venues including SXSW EDU, NY Tech Meetup, and on the LiberatedEd podcast.

In 2022, Modulo was one of 8 organizations who were awarded the Bridge Grant from the Vela Education Fund to expand access to homeschooling and modular learning to under-resourced communities.

My experience in education and homeschooling has led me to believe that there is no perfect education for every child, but families have an extraordinary amount of wisdom they can apply to building the perfect education for their individual child.

My goal with Modulo is to make it possible for any family to easily build a customized education that their child will love, and that will empower the whole family to thrive, taking into account, social, emotional and academic needs.

I love to answer questions from parents and receive feedback on how we can improve Modulo, so feel free to reach out anytime! I personally answer all the questions and comments readers leave on my blogs.

In my free time, I like hiking, traveling the world, tasting ceremonial grade matcha, enjoying dark chocolate.

I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University with highest honors, with a double degree in French Literature and American Studies and minors in Environmental Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies.

And I love to learn!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manisha-snoyer-5042298/
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