ABOUT THIS POSITION

We’re looking for a (paid) Equity and Inclusion Intern to help Aceable Learning Experience improve our Driving and Real Estate course content to be more inclusive and accessible. Your primary job will be to write alt text captions for existing course images as well as collaborate with LX on other DE&I content projects. We are looking for a commitment of forty hours per week from June 1st to August 6th; we are accepting remote candidates.

ABOUT ACEABLE

Aceable is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient online courses available across all of your mobile devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people reach life goals and milestones through online certification. 

After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate education and is quickly becoming one of the leading online real estate schools in the U.S. To date, Aceable touts more than 20 million students and counting. The team is proud of the hundred thousand plus students we're adding to the Aceable family per month. We're only getting started, and we need your help to get us to our vision of millions of students per month. 

Aceable has been awarded as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin for multiple years running by numerous entities, such as the Austin Business Journal, BuiltInAustin, and EqualOcean. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse culture whose overall mission is to impact as many student-lives as possible. 

OUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE TEAM 

Our Learning Experience team is a lively crew of instructional designers, writers, graphic designers, and video producers with a shared mission: we make required licensing education approachable and engaging, and we care obsessively about our results. In close collaboration with the product team, we strive to create effective, user-centric online courses. We learn fast, pivot quickly, and create products to drive the best outcomes for the largest number of students. We live by our Aceable core values, and are a positive, humble, and supportive team.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Review existing course images in order to write text alt text captions
• Ideate potential new ways to teach concepts in our driving course
• Learn about Aceable’s learning experience principles and alt text field standards
• Learn and get fluent in Aceable’s proprietary learning management system as well as our task management and DAM systems
• Participate in collaborative meetings with Aceable Learning Experience content creators

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• The ability to write (as demonstrated through successfully passing our application exercise). 
• Demonstrated time management skills and the ability to deliver projects on time
• Ability to solve problems. You excel at identifying problems and their solutions, both for yourself and your team.
• Learn new tools and processes. You should be open (and able) to learn how to use new systems and tools.
• Alignment to our core values

BONUS POINTS

• Graphic design skills
• Education or instructional experience
• Writing or communications experience

HOW TO APPLY

With your application, please include:

• Your resume
• A 300-word maximum answer to the prompt “Why is promoting equity and inclusion important to you?” in the “Cover Letter” field.
• Your LX Internship Summer 2021 Exercise. Use this Google Form to attach your response.  

Note: No need to include a cover letter. In the cover letter field, please instead attach your prompt answer.

ACEABLE PERKS

• Join one of Austin's Best Places to Work in 2021 
• Flexible work schedule
• Passionate, high-achieving teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
• NOTE: Our team is currently remote due to Covid-19 and we have some awesome virtual perks that come with it (trivia, karaoke, bingo, happy hours, lunch & learns, and more)

At Aceable we celebrate and support all differences. Aceable is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital, disability, and veteran status.