Learning Designer

Learning Designer

Location: Cape Town

Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursdays in office and remaining days remote

Contract Type: Fixed-Term

Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST

Job Summary:

Are you passionate about shaping the future of digital learning? As a Learning Designer at OES, you will have the opportunity to craft world-class, innovative learning experiences that inspire and engage global learners. Whether you're designing cutting-edge MBA programs, developing life-changing MOOCs, or creating competency-based job training, your work will directly impact learners around the world.

In this role, you'll drive creative and forward-thinking solutions while ensuring that all learning materials align with best practices and OES's quality framework. You will collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders, proactively leveraging GenAI technologies to enhance your workflow and deliver top-tier digital products.

While working in a highly supportive environment, you will be expected to:

• take full ownership of your work,
• contribute to the supportive environment by offering coaching and peer support,
• develop an area of specialisation in which you can provide a high level of coaching to peers and/or external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply advanced learning and design knowledge and skills to create technology-enabled learning experiences for a range of learners that meet best practice standards.
• Effectively engage in regular interactions with internal roleplayers to translate a course blueprint into a detailed course atlas/storyboard which supports an effective and efficient digital course building process.
• Taking a lead in internal OES team initiatives.
• Reviewing course documentation to familiarise yourself with the broader context of the course.
• Collecting content aligned to learning outcomes by creating and reviewing content request documents for your clients.
• Creating instructionally sound and engaging online learning experiences by presenting content coherently, creating relevant activities, and proposing necessary graphic and video content.
• Designing and writing grammatically correct learning content in partnership with external subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Populating course atlas/storyboard and writing scripts, according to OES's learning and visual design principles.
• Author directly on the LMS or support the learning technologist team as they build the course.
• Regularly engaging with the production team to create a course graphics guide and video graphics guide according to OES's design principles.
• Supporting internal roleplayers through QA processes.
• For example, processing client feedback and mapping all design activity to OES's quality standards.