Learning Designer

Job id: 075672. Wage: £42,405 – £49,785 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 29 September 2023. Cut-off date: 15 October 2023.

Enterprise unit: King’s Digital. Division: King’s Digital.

Contact particulars:France Barth. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Skilled & Assist Companies.

Job description

About King’s Digital

King’s Digital is a really collaborative group. We companion with lecturers {and professional} providers workers throughout the college, and with our exterior companions to design, develop and ship a variety of instructional programmes in step with King’s Schooling Technique.

We produce on-line grasp’s levels, quick programs, bespoke government schooling programs, and more and more, stackable micro-credentials. You’ll be becoming a member of us at an thrilling time as we search to understand our strategic ambition of being a UK chief in on-line and blended schooling, particularly within the areas of studying design, improvement, and partnerships.

We’re a dynamic group with bold progress targets in a precedence space of improvement for King’s. We proudly foster a supportive tradition and neighborhood which prioritises each particular person and collective wellbeing. We actively work to guard and enhance the wellbeing of all workers; be it bodily, psychological or social, and recognise this as central to our work and success.

King’s gives all kinds of assist to staff, together with versatile working preparations, paid maternity/shared parental go away, menopausal assist, an lively wellbeing programme, coaching and improvement alternatives and far more. All of our workers profit from a beneficiant pension contribution as effectively.

In regards to the function

Studying Designers in King’s Digital work collaboratively with each lecturers and inventive designers to create efficient and interesting on-line programs. They play an important function in shaping the training expertise of our on-line college students: guaranteeing that the content material is introduced in a transparent and memorable manner, with significant interplay to arrange college students for fulfillment on their course and of their careers.

We’re on the lookout for somebody with a sound understanding of pedagogical concept and proof, who’s eager to use their expertise creating e-learning to substantial postgraduate programmes and revolutionary quick programs for professionals. The function will initially contain bettering current modules and ultimately creating new ones. The perfect candidate could be naturally curious and eager to use their analytical and inventive abilities to diversified topics, together with legislation, finance, cybersecurity, public well being and advertising and marketing.

As a part of King’s trial of hybrid working, all group members can work remotely for a part of the week if they need.

This submit might be provided on an indefinite contract.

This can be a full-time submit.

The function is based totally at King’s Strand Campus although you could be required to journey to different campuses once in a while.

Key duties

Working in collaboration with school and the King’s Digital venture groups, the Studying Designer designs on-line or blended programs which can be partaking and pedagogically efficient. It’s the Studying Designer’s accountability to make sure the content material and actions mirror the lecturers’ instructional goals and maximise pupil engagement and studying to assist the event of scholars’ tutorial {and professional} skills.

The function holder might be anticipated to:

• Apply studying design ideas, grownup studying concept and studying sciences proof to make sure the excessive pedagogical high quality of King’s Digital programmes, modules and quick programs.
• Design a ‘studying pathway’ or sequence of content material and actions that may assist the scholars obtain the training outcomes set by or agreed with the tutorial lead. 
• Make design decisions leading to sources and actions which can be: • Efficient – in order that content material is obvious and as straightforward to know and bear in mind as doable with out compromising on tutorial rigour • Partaking – in order that college students are motivated to finish programs successfully with excessive satisfaction • Environment friendly – in order that college students’, school members’ and designers’ time throughout course improvement and supply is taken into consideration
•  Work with tutorial leads, course facilitators and different subject material consultants in a collaborative, consultative trend, supporting them to develop efficient studying outcomes, and serving to them adapt or create content material, actions and evaluation that’s appropriate for on-line studying. 
• Set up rapport and talk respectfully and productively with lecturers and venture group members each in particular person and on-line, together with written communication, voice calls, conferences and workshops.
• Determine materials and studying outcomes which may be appropriate for various instructional codecs, together with interactive classes, asynchronous dialogue boards, stay webinars, particular person or collaborative pupil actions, audio, video, animation or instructional video games.
• Take into consideration the options and constraints of the King’s Digital studying platform, most popular software program and accessibility necessities when designing classes and actions (presently Moodle and Groups, however earlier expertise with particular software program is just not important).
• Present consultative recommendation to school on designing and facilitating on-line programs.
• Handle personal workload within the context of venture plan timeframes and deadlines, preserve correct venture progress documentation and maintain venture managers abreast of key choices, milestones and issues.
• Advise and help with the introduction of latest studying design initiatives, by attending or facilitating workshops, studying related literature, and collaborative venture work with the group.

The above record of duties is probably not exhaustive, and the submit holder might be required to undertake such duties and duties as might fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the submit.

Expertise, information, and expertise

Important standards

{Qualifications} – Undergraduate diploma in any topic (minimal 2.2 and ideally 2.1 or above or worldwide equal).

Expertise – Important expertise designing / growing e-learning content material and actions. 

**Information & Expertise -**Good understanding of the educational design function and capable of exhibit how personal expertise is related to the function.

Substantial understanding and software of e-learning and distance studying pedagogy and ideas / pedagogical or grownup studying concept and proof.

Substantial understanding of each college students and lecturers in Greater Schooling.

Glorious potential to create storyboards or related visible planning instruments.

Excessive stage potential to pick related info and current complicated concepts clearly and creatively in a logical, coherent manner. 

Glorious English language abilities: capable of specific self precisely and successfully in each written and verbal communication.

**Competencies & Traits **- In a position to work effectively autonomously and collaborate as a part of a dynamic and agile group.

Demonstrable dedication to inventive innovation, constructive reflection / steady enchancment.

A dedication to variety and inclusion 

Fascinating standards

{Qualifications} – Postgraduate diploma or qualification in a related self-discipline e.g. Schooling, Educational Design, with pedagogy and studying applied sciences as a considerable half; alternatively equal stage of expertise in HE e-Studying subject. 

Expertise – Excessive stage potential to barter and talk effectively with others in a better schooling atmosphere. 

Good presentation and facilitation abilities. 

Competencies & Traits – Capacity to work below strain and meet difficult deadlines with a problem-solving angle.

Consideration to element.

The choice course of will embody an evaluation and a panel interview. Candidates should embody a canopy letter for his or her software to be thought of.

There might be an info session the place you’ll have the chance to familiarise your self with our division and ask questions in regards to the function, choice course of, our work tradition, present hybrid work coverage, or just take heed to others’ questions.

This might be a web-based name the place individuals will be part of anonymously and with their cameras off. This name will happen on Wednesday eleventh October at 4pm.

If you happen to want to attend, please e mail [email protected] 

At King’s we attempt to ship analysis, schooling and repair to society that responds to the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (UN SDGs), supporting the worldwide effort to construct a greater future for our individuals and planet. 

 At King’s Digital, we take our function in minimising the damaging and maximising the constructive impacts severely and search to embed sustainability at each stage throughout the division. Whereas working for us, you’ll have the chance to assist sustainability by participation within the Sustainability Champions programme .