About the Role
The successful candidate will join CfA’s Knowledge
team to lead a revamp/refresh of our existing MOOC platform, restructuring and
updating existing courseware, while also improving the functionality and user
experience on the platform (with support from CfA’s tech and content teams).
A major focus for the role will be to build courses
that are modular, with core lessons teaching key skills, complemented by
elective modules that offer topic/tool specific add-on skills. CfA courseware
is intended to be flexible enough to be easily customised or repackaged for
different audiences by our in-country staff trainers or university partners.
The MOOC courseware also serves as the master curricula for teaching kits for
our in-person/offline training workshops, as well as template course materials
for our university partners.
CfA’s curriculum developer will be responsible for
benchmarking our learning materials on global best-practices, and will also
lead our joint development of new courses with both internal and external
stakeholders to create learning solutions.
The candidate should have a strong strategic analysis
and critical thinking skills, as our projects are varied and fast-paced, so you
need to quickly understand and learn new things. You will need to possess a
keen attention to detail and a good eye for both quality and aesthetics. You
should be comfortable handling multiple tasks with multiple ongoing deadlines
and should have previous experience working on the digital collaboration tools
that CfA uses, such as Slack, Google Drive, and Trello.
Responsibilities: Your daily responsibilities will include:
- Conceptualising and designing master curricula, in
consultation with CfA programme teams and external domain experts, for
modular, task-driven experiential courses that function as both
self-directed e-learning and as in-person courseware of instructors.
- Developing courseware support materials, including facilitator
guides and user-manuals; participant materials and exercises/assignments;
and course handouts/toolkits.
- Designing and developing digital training materials, including
e-learning modules, videos, and other resources
- Collaborate with CfA’s Academy to ensure that training
materials are aligned with program goals and participant needs
- Repacking the master curriculum for offline/in-person
presentation, including developing presentation slides (PowerPoint, etc)
with instructor talking points/notes; class handouts and participant
handbooks, etc.
- Cultivate and manage a pool of thematic experts that CfA can
call upon to co-author courses and/or present flagship classes.
- Working closely with trainers and subject matter experts to
ensure that training materials are accurate, engaging, and effective
- Proactively measure user experience and participant
trends/feedback to improve the quality and effectiveness of CfA
courseware.
- Monitor overall usage/completion rates and trends for CfA’s
online MOOC and other webinar-based learning programmes, to offer
actionable insights to improve the effectiveness of CfA’s Academy
programmes.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the
training courses, and incorporate feedback to improve future
iterations
- Monitor trends in teaching practices, and explore and
recommend new technologies that will enhance Knowledge’s training model
- Incorporating best practices in instructional design,
including interactive elements, assessments, and multimedia content
- Advise CfA’s trainers on the following aspects of the training
content: accessibility, readability, potential for learner engagement and
fit with learning objectives.
- Work with CfA’s engagement team to promote CfA training
programmes including the MOOC site to the wider public and increase
traffic and engagement on the site.
Required minimum requirements include:
- Qualifications or significant proven expertise in learning
sciences, and specifically mass open online course (MOOC) design,
instructional design and learning technologies or Information
architecture, evidence-based education, and/or related fields.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in training development,
creating blended learning solutions for both instructor-led and self-paced
training programmes.
- Experience with using multimedia and online web instructional
materials, especially for a web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS)
such as WordPress’ LearnDash platform.
- Experience assessing training needs, writing lessons
objectives, and storyboarding course outlines/learning journeys.
- Ability to work creatively and accurately under pressure with
excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to multitask and self-organise, and prioritise work
when managing multiple timelines and schedules.
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and self-management
skills.
- Excellent writing and communication skills, with an ability to
explain complex concepts in simple terms.
Preferred:preferred
qualifications and skills include:
- Experience with developing courseware formats for new
communication channels, including using mobile platforms like WhatsApp or
equivalent social messaging platforms.
- Experience with creating or customising courseware content
using InDesign (or equivalent tools), video scribe, audio/narration
editing tools and other e-learning design technologies is also an asset.
- Expertise in adult learning and all aspects of instructional
design for various formats, including instructor-led, self-directed
e-learning, task-driven experiential learning, webinar-driven interactive
learning, mobile optimised courseware, and various types of performance
support.
- Willingness to teach others and learn/pioneer new techniques.
- Experience in remote collaboration tools, including Slack,
Google Drive, and Trello to manage workflows.
- The ability to communicate and work effectively with
curriculum or domain experts and project team members who work remotely
and in different time zones.
Language and Location Requirements:
- Location: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria or anywhere else in
Africa
- Languages: English
- Preferred but not required: French and/or Arabic
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