Learning Designer

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Construct Education

📍Remote - South Africa

Summary

Join Construct Education as a Learning Designer and deliver exceptional digital learning products to global clients. You will design and build high-end blended MBA programs, support clients in creating MOOCs, and develop competency-based job training. Collaborate with internal teams on multiple projects, ensuring high-quality course content. Take ownership of your work, contribute to a supportive environment, and develop an area of specialization. Apply advanced learning and design skills, translate course blueprints into detailed storyboards, and lead internal initiatives. Review documentation, collect content, create engaging online learning experiences, and design learning content with SMEs. Populate course atlases, write scripts, author on the LMS, and engage with the production team. Support QA processes and provide additional support for learning strategies. Build and maintain strong client relationships and provide advanced expertise.

Requirements

  • 5 years + working experience in online or blended Learning Design, or similar role
  • Strong consultancy and communication 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 demonstrate leadership qualities with a multidisciplinary team
  • Deep knowledge of best practices for online and blended learning design
  • Ability to coach peers and external role players on best practices
  • Demonstrable interest in and understanding of agile L&D design and delivery, especially technologically enhanced L&D
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • A passion for great learning and a solutions-orientated approach to learning and design challenges

Responsibilities

  • 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)
  • 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.)

Benefits

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible work for genuine career-life fit
  • A healthy and supportive company culture
  • Generous annual leave
  • Paid maternity and paternity benefits
  • Study leave
  • Professional development and mentoring
  • Construct Culture Club events
  • Company funded lunch and drinks every 6 weeks

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