Financial Learning Designer at 2U

What We’re Looking For:

Learning Designers are responsible for the curriculum design of online short courses as well as creating, collating, and revising course material in collaboration with faculty, subject matter experts and internal stakeholders, ensuring course design and course materials align with sound pedagogy and learning design principles. The number one responsibility of the Learning Designer is execution of course development and evaluations, with direction from the Lead Learning Designer, measured against internal project plans and individual quality metrics. Specialist Learning Designers, such as Financial Learning Designers, are dedicated to subject-specific courses.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Work with Lead Learning Designers to design the curriculum for online courses, including formulating learning outcomes and recommending appropriate mediums for content delivery and assessment.

• Conceptualise, research and create course content and activities that align with 2U’s learning design methodology and quality standards, and faculty’s direction, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Evaluate and revise the content and design of existing courses to ensure that they remain up to date and aligned with pedagogical good practice and 2U and the university’s quality standards, to improve customer and teaching team experience as well as alignment between the marketing and delivery of courses.

• Assist in addressing design and content-related queries that arise during the marketing and presentation of courses.

• Collaborate with team members to refine processes and contribute to team and individual development, support the research and testing of new approaches to content development, and contribute to general innovation within the department.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Economics, Finance or similar. Any education experience or qualification (such as a teaching certificate) would be beneficial.

• Minimum 1 years’ work experience.

• Exposure to or a demonstrated interest in education. Teaching experience, curriculum design or content development experience preferred.

• Experience in copywriting and proofreading.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• A high level of confidence and professionalism and strong interpersonal skills.

• Good work ethic and time management skills.

• Competency in information retrieval, analysis and collation (essential research skills) as well as a high level of digital literacy.

• Attention to detail.

• Good lateral thinking skills and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to work under pressure and handle ambiguity.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

• International travel may be required.

• 2U is a fast-paced, high-pressured environment and you will be expected to keep up (while getting the necessary level of support). You are expected to be proactive, self directing and to speak up when you need additional support.

• Teamwork is critical to achieving success in this role. You will need to establish strong relationships with peers and leaders in production teams.

• We don’t micromanage. So, you have to diagnose problems and brainstorm solutions without any prompts and manage up appropriately.

• Things change all the time. 2U is a very dynamic environment which means that you will need the ability to adapt to change quickly.

• Feedback forms part of the daily rhythms in Learning Design and you will need to be receptive to providing and receiving continuous feedback.