Senior Virtual Learning Officer

Summary

Join the Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) as a Senior Virtual Learning Officer to develop engaging and accessible eLearning content supporting youth development. This full-time, one-year fixed-term contract role involves creating and maintaining eLearning materials on various subjects, including safeguarding, EDI topics, health and safety, and volunteer onboarding. You will collaborate with course designers, translate storyboards into interactive content, ensure accessibility, integrate content into the LMS (Moodle), and test content thoroughly. The ideal candidate possesses eLearning development experience using tools like Articulate, media creation skills, and good MS Office skills. Some hybrid working opportunities are available.

Requirements

• ELearning development experience ( e.g. tools such as Articulate Storyline and Rise, or similar)
• Experience in media creation for graphics, sound and video editing
• Good MS Office skills

Responsibilities

• Work with course designers to develop new, and maintain existing, elearning and media content
• Translate storyboards into interactive learning content, creating activities, graphics, animations, audio and videos, using tools such as Articulate (Storyline and Rise), Canva, H5P, Murf and Adobe
• Ensure learning meets development guidelines, and is accessible, functional and engaging
• Integrate learning content to create courses on our learning management system (Moodle)
• Test learning content, including using screen readers and other accessibility software
• Help to maintain the guidelines for course development
• Support the day-to-day administration of the Sea Cadets learning management environment
• Cultivate strong working relationships across multiple teams (internal and external)
• Stay up to date with latest system upgrades and advise on their potential impact on existing or new courses

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Teams and SharePoint
• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• LMS Administration experience (our platform is based on Moodle, Mahara and Alfresco but other LMS skills will be transferable)
• Subject matter knowledge in one of the following areas: Supporting Autistic young people Specialised educational needs Other Equity, Diversity and Inclusion subjects Safeguarding Onboarding new people

Benefits

• Some hybrid working opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
• Private medical insurance
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential
• National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise