Learning Design Team Lead​/Learning Strategist

Location:
Cape Town

Working Practices:
Hybrid, comprising of two office-based days and three remote working days per week.

Contract Type:
Permanent

Reports to:
Learning Manager

Job summary:

The Learning Design team is responsible for developing and implementing innovative and effective online learning outcomes that reflects current best practice in this area.

The Learning Design Team Lead / Learning Strategist is responsible for management of a Pod to develop and implement quality online learning programs that comply with OES’s pedagogical model and unit quality standards and optimise the student learning experience. The role will oversee unit delivery to agreed time frames with multiple stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

People Leadership:

• Manage, develop, and engage Learning Designers in a Learning Design pod.
• Manage the development of online units that meet the quality matters standards.
• Manage the identification of pedagogically sound interactives that enhance the online learning experience for OES students.
• Manage all performance related issues within the pod (high achievers and under-performers).
• Manage the performance management process across the pod.
• Manage development plans and career pathing for learning designers with the pod.
• Collaborate effectively with university partner Academics, OES internal academic stakeholders, and IT colleagues to create resources and learning activities that support learning outcomes and deliver a best practice online student experience.
• Contribute to a professional culture and working environment that is based on the premise that happy and engaged people are essential to the success of the business.

Thought Leadership:

• Lead the creation of learning experiences that are in line with OES’s pedagogical model and quality standards, and that are innovative, engaging, active and learner centered.
• Deploy a mastery of educational design principles to produce measurably superior student outcomes.

Process Leadership:

• Effectively manage and prioritise Pod workload and responsibilities to deliver quality units within workload targets, time and academic constrains.
• Manage pod capacity to ensure staff workloads are allocated to high priority learning design tasks to best achieve quality online learning.
• Lead and take responsibility for QA processes and timelines.
• Reach pragmatic decisions about resource allocation that balance student outcomes with time invested.

What does success look like?

• Pod engagement, productivity, and collaboration.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and engagement.
• Delivery of unit workload each Teaching Period.
• Mastery of educational design principles to drive quality improvements and measurable advances in student outcomes.
• Continuous improvement to unit quality and team efficiency and productivity, within the Pod and wider team.

Requirements

• A relevant undergraduate and/or postgraduate tertiary qualification.
• Demonstrated expertise in innovative design and delivery methods and tools for online teaching.
• Strong understanding and application of adult learning principles.
• Extensive experience in tertiary teaching environments, including online, that addresses contemporary approaches to learner-centered, flexible education.
• Extensive experience in online subject design and development in a tertiary setting.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of online technologies and Learning Management systems including, Canvas, Moodle and editing and design software.
• Process and project management experience in environments of competing priorities, tight deadlines and multiple stakeholders also highly regarded.
• Demonstrated standard of interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to develop effective stakeholder relationships and influence and engage others outside the team.
• People management skills and experience are highly regarded.
• Highly developed skills in stakeholder management.

Benefits

About OES

OES is a vibrant and values-led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams…