Senior Learning Designer

Summary

Join HyperionDev, a leading provider of accelerated tech education, as a Senior Learning Designer. You will play a key role in creating and ensuring the quality of learning content for thousands of students. Responsibilities include designing new courses, improving existing ones, and collaborating with various teams. This role requires extensive experience in learning design and technical writing, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. Preferred qualifications include a background in education and experience with coding education content. HyperionDev offers a hybrid work environment, opportunities to learn new tech skills, and the chance to contribute to a life-changing mission.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Learning Design
• Experience in writing and editing technical work e.g. software development, web development, etc. (at an Intermediate level or higher)
• Ability to review, analyse, and identify areas of weakness and strength in content, and determine trends in content engagement and use
• Proactivity, fast learner with meticulous attention to detail
• A positive, problem-solving attitude
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self-starter who can drive projects forward with minimal supervision
• An interest in gaining experience and advancing the future of coding education, assessments, and tooling, and in the EdTech space
• Experience in working collaboratively with and managing subject matter experts

Responsibilities

• Create (including writing and designing) new learning content
• Implement changes to existing courses (and related dependencies) flagged in review and feedback forms
• Improve the quality of bootcamps by ensuring that the information in all tasks is accurate, relevant, understandable, and error-free
• Identify and manage inter-task dependencies
• Ensure content alignment to accreditation requirements
• Review and overhaul existing courses when and where necessary, with a focus on structuring content to best support learning at the highest possible quality
• Design the flow of new courses and create or collaborate with SMEs to create all the new material needed (including tutorials, compulsory tasks, example code, and any other additional resources)
• Ensure that the academic integrity of the content is maintained at all times
• Research new and updated concepts regularly to ensure that the content of the bootcamps stay up-to-date

Preferred Qualifications

• Background or experience in education, supporting an understanding of how people learn (pedagogical or andragogical knowledge)
• Taken the lead on the development of content specifically related to coding education, or software, web, and data science content
• Experience in the accreditation of course or skills program content with regulatory bodies (e.g. SAQA)
• Experience in content creation for coding education or any level of coding ability would be an advantage
• Bachelor's degree or related qualification in Learning/Instructional Design

Benefits

• Hybrid work: We are a hybrid work organisation offering flexibility on your schedule. Remote working options are available for candidates not in proximity of a HyperionDev Campus
• Learn new tech skills: We offer our employees the opportunity to enrol part-time in our Coding Bootcamps
• Join the heart of tech in Africa, Europe and the US: You'll work with the best of the best and rub shoulders with the world leaders in edtech, developer education, and developer assessments. Join one of the most ambitious and highest performing tech companies in the space, with a management team that draws their former experience from top tech companies
• Life-changing work: Solve real problems that make education and tech careers accessible to those who need it most: you're allowed to brag about it