Learning Experience Designer — Online Course Production

We have 40+ accredited QCTO qualifications built for the classroom. We are converting them into premium self-paced online courses — and we need someone to own that conversion at scale.

This is not a role where you build one course a quarter. You will be running a production line: AI-assisted authoring, a defined design system, and a quality bar that has to hold up to both a QCTO external assessment and a paying learner who has never met a facilitator.

If you have converted instructor-led training to digital before, and you have already worked out how to make AI do the heavy lifting without letting the quality slip — read on.

iLearn is a South African corporate training and skills development provider with 25 years behind us. We have empowered 100,000+ learners, upskilled 500+ companies, and operate from 4 locations nationally. We are B-BBEE Level 2, QCTO and SETA accredited, and were named one of SA's Fastest Growing

Our purpose is simple:
empower people to empower others.

We are now building the next chapter — a digital learning platform that lets a learner complete a full accredited QCTO qualification online, self-paced, without a facilitator in the room. This role is central to making that real.

You will convert existing classroom-based accredited qualifications into complete, self-paced online learning experiences that learners can finish independently.

That means taking a QCTO curriculum document, a facilitator guide, and a learner workbook — and turning them into a structured online course with content, video, interactivity, assessment, and feedback that genuinely teaches, without a human standing in front of the room.

You will use AI heavily and deliberately as a production tool. We are not looking for someone who is "open to AI." We are looking for someone who already builds this way and can show us how.

• Convert QCTO knowledge modules, practical skills modules and work experience modules into online learning journeys — mapping every learning outcome to content, activity and assessment
• Write and structure learner-facing content that works without a facilitator: worked examples, case studies, scenario walkthroughs, and the scaffolding that replaces "ask the trainer"
• Build interactive activities, knowledge checks, simulations and scenario branching
• Script and produce video — including AI-avatar and AI-voiceover production
• Design assessment: formative checks, summative assessments, rubrics, and assessment aligned to EISA readiness

• Build and improve the templates, design system, prompt library and workflows that let us produce courses faster without dropping the quality bar
• Use AI tooling across drafting, media production, activity generation and QA — and know exactly where the human has to stay in the loop
• Work with subject matter experts and facilitators to extract what they know and get it into the build

• Ensure every course maps cleanly to its QCTO curriculum, SAQA registration and assessment requirements
• Build for accessibility, mobile, and the reality of SA learner bandwidth and devices
• Package, load, test and troubleshoot courses in Moodle — SCORM/xAPI, H5P, gradebook, completion tracking

• Track completion, drop-off points, assessment performance and learner feedback
• Iterate on the courses that are underperforming, and feed what you learn back into the templates

• A defined, documented production system that anyone we add to the team can work inside
• A meaningful portion of our qualification portfolio live and enrolling learners online
• Learner completion rates on self-paced courses that we are proud to put in a proposal
• Production cost and turnaround time per course materially lower than where we started

• 5+ years in instructional design, learning experience design, e-learning development or digital learning content production
• Demonstrated experience converting instructor-led / classroom training into online or blended formats — this is the core of the job
• Strong command of at least one authoring tool:
  Articulate Storyline / Rise…