Facilitator and Marker: Design Thinking/User-Centered Design/Experience Design at Red & Yellow School

Job Summary

• Red & Yellow’s Online Education team is on the hunt for a well qualified, seasoned Design Thinking professional with plenty of experience user-centred design, experience design and in virtual facilitation with a passion for sharing their knowledge. This role will provide you an excellent opportunity to support and enhance the learning journeys of talented Red & Yellow students.
• It primarily entails assisting in developing and delivering workshop/tutorial/lecture (programme dependent) content through virtual channels and other digital tools. In this role, you would form an integral component of learning programme roll out for students enrolled in design-centred programmes based on the National Certificate in Design Techniques (SAQA ID 90721).
• These programmes would include User-Centred Design, User Experience, Design for Non-Designers, and Experience Design. You would work closely with, and be supported by, a reliable Programme Manager, in tandem with a well-versed Instructional Design team. As this is a contract/part-time position, this role would best suit Design Th

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and assist in the updating of workshop/tutorial/lecture content and presentation decks in consultation with R&Y Instructional Design team
• Deliver/facilitate engaging and interactive virtual workshop/tutorial/lecture sessions one to three times a week through Zoom and/or Teams
• Develop and facilitate assessment support sessions (e.g. Q&A sessions) to assist learners/students in the successful completion of their assignments
• Where required consulting on the development of formal assessments
• Be available to timeously respond to learner/student queries via email (ad-hoc basis with a 24-hour turn-around time)
• Be available for learner/student consultation sessions on assessments as needed (ad-hoc basis)
• Mark and provide feedback on assessments
• Assess assessments as a MICT SETA registered assessor (only if registered)
• Assist in overall programme roll out

Qualifications, Requirements and Skills

• Own laptop equipped with webcam and microphone of reasonable standard
• Stable, reliable internet
• Quiet working/presentation space
• Access to Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Miro, Figma

Advantageous

• Proficiency in Moodle LMS
• Learnership facilitation experience
• Demonstrable understanding of Higher Education and Training landscape
• Reasonable level of knowledge of relevant regulatory body requirements (SAQA, SETA, DHET, CHE, etc.)
• MICT SETA Registered Assessor or Moderator status
• Design Thinking experience in the banking or financial sector
• Student support experience

Qualities

• Strong communicator
• Detail and quality oriented
• Self-motivated
• Integrity and honesty
• Innovation and creativity
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Team player
• Empathy

Time Commitment:

• Approximately 20 hours per month per programme

Why work at Red & Yellow?
Life at Red & Yellow is fast-paced, technicoloured and full of fun and energy. We’re a School with serious ambition and a Global vision – we want to be The Most Creative Business School in the World, and we are working hard to achieve this. As a result, we’re growing very fast, innovating and experimenting constantly, and always looking for ways to improve ourselves and our courses for the benefit of our students.
For you, this translates as follows:

• Our working environment is casual and fun, and full of quirky personalities, oddballs, nerds and geeks. But they all have one thing in common: a passion for changing the world through education, and a tremendous sense of community and purpose in working as part of a team of incredible talent that is punching well above its weight.
• Fast-pace, growth and innovation mean that there is no shortage of upward and horizontal growth opportunities for people who perform and ask for opportunities to develop themselves and try new things. Our people get a lot of responsibility and trust, and develop quickly.
• You will get to work alongside our executives and senior managers from Day 1, and so have enormous opportunity to learn from them directly.
• We are all about constant curiosity – all of our online courses are free for our staff, and their friends and family get discounts.