Overview
Learning Designer Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Construct Education
Position: Â Learning Designer (Fixed-Term Contract)
Location:
Cape Town
Working Practices:
Hybrid | Mondays and Thursdays in office and remaining days remote.
Contract Type:
Fixed-term contract (~5 months)
Working Hours: 07H00AM
– 15H30PM
(SAST)
Job summary:
In this role, you will deliver world-class service and sector-leading digital products to our portfolio of global clients. This could include designing and building high-end blended MBA programs, supporting clients in creating life changing MOOCs, developing competency-based job training.
You will work closely with internal role players on multiple client and in-house projects and be responsible for delivering high-quality course content. While you will be part of a highlysupportive environment, as a Learning Designer, you will be expected to:
take full ownership of your work,
contribute to thesupportive environmentby offering coaching and peer support,
develop an area of specialisation in which you can provide a high level of coaching to peers and/or external stakeholders.
Core Learning Design tasks:
Apply advanced learning and design knowledge and skills to create technology-enabled learning experiences for a range of learners that meet best practice standards.
Effectively engage in regular interactions with internal role players to translate a course blueprint into a detailed course atlas/storyboard which supports an effective and efficient digital course building process.
Taking a lead in internal Construct team initiatives.
Reviewing course documentation to familiarise yourself with the broader context of the course.
Collecting content aligned to learning outcomes by creating and reviewing content request documents for your clients.
Creating instructionally sound and engaging online learning experiences by presenting content coherently, creating relevant activities, and proposing necessary graphic and video content.
Designing and writing grammatically correct learning content in partnership with external subject matter experts (SMEs).
Populating course atlas/storyboard and writing scripts, according to Construct’s learning and visual design principles.
Author directly on the LMS or support the learning technologist team as they build the course.
Regularly engaging with the production team to create a course graphics guide and video graphics guide according to Construct’s design principles.
Supporting internal role players through QA processes. (For example, processing client feedback and mapping all design activity to Construct’s quality standards)
Additional tasks:
Provide additional support for learning strategy for a project by reviewing course deliverables and ensuring they are aligned with the learning cycle design and other required internal and external (client) standards.
Build and maintain strong client and partner relationships
Provide advanced expertise (such as use of specific technologies, learning design approaches or tasks, etc.)
Requirements
You have:
5 years + working experience in online or blended Learning Design, or similar role.
Strong consultancy andcommunication skills(written and verbal).
Ability to develop and/or design courses for multiple LMSs (EdX, Canvas, and Bridge, etc.)
Proven ability to self-motivate, work autonomously and demonstrateleadershipqualities with amultidisciplinaryteam.
Deep knowledge of best practices for online and blended learning design.
Ability to coach pe…
Title: Learning Designer
Company: Construct Education
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Category: Education / Teaching, Creative Arts/Media
