Job Openings at Valenture Institute

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of Senior Learning Designers and guide them in the management of their respective teams.
• Champion a culture of learning among Senior Learning Designers and Learning Designers by coordinating and facilitating capacity development workshops, in collaboration with Senior Learning Designers.
• Work with the Head of Product: Learning Design, Product Owner, Head of Student Success and Faculty leadership to design, test, develop and evaluate new and existing educational models and products.
• Liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including Learning Technology, Faculty, Student Success and Technology to ensure the effective and collaborative design and delivery of the product.
• Serve as the primary point of contact and information for General Managers in your portfolio.
• Initiate planning processes for new course development.
• Work with project management and various operational stakeholders to ensure that deadlines are adhered to and that project communication takes place in a timely and effective manner.
• Manage production planning with project management and Learning Technology team.
• Manage the procurement of learning design resources.
• Develop guidance documents and policies, and contribute to departmental process development and improvement.
• Consistently stay up-to-date with curriculum updates across our portfolio of subjects.
• Identify appropriate tools and software to improve the delivery of qualifications on the online learning campus.
• Develop innovative pedagogical and blended online learning approaches.
• Manage quality assurance processes, and work on evaluation strategies to review the effectiveness of design strategy.
• Oversee the recruitment and onboarding of all Learning Design team members.

Requirements

• Knowledge of IEB, CAPs, and/or Pearson curriculums an advantage
• Proven skills and experience in learning design and the development of student-centred digital learning experiences and resources
• Knowledge of digital learning principles and practices, as well as current and future trends in digital technologies
• Demonstrated project management skills in the development of digital content for online courses
• Exercise discretionary judgment and negotiate for positive outcomes

Personal Skills & Attributes:

• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and build collaborative work relationships
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to work in a team environment
• Good presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment and able to prioritise work appropriately

Benefits

• Family member discount for Valenture Institute
• Remote work
• Voluntary savings Programme

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, your application is considered unsuccessful at this time.

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Responsibilities:

• Plan, prioritise, coordinate, and conduct the execution, and synthesis of user research and/ or usability testing.
• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Drive persona, archetype, or mindset development, user journey/flow creation, and task analysis, with intermediate experience.
• Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, of requirements discovery.
• Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
• Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Manage the UX design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules.
• Work closely with the Systems and Technology (S&T) Department to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
• Operate in cross-functional teams; including Learning Design, Project Management, and S&T.
• Support planning, designing, facilitating, and synthesising workshops.
• Provide clear, articulate rationale for design choices and approach.
• Improves systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.
• Recommend controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.
• Collaborate with S&T to resolve issues and ensure solutions are viable, scalable and consistent.
• Develop system guidelines and manuals.
• Running training sessions and workshops on system processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Internet Technologies, related field, or minimum of 4 years experience in a similar role
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe CS, Axure, Sketch, FramerJS, and a willingness to explore new tools
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Knowledge of product development and management principles
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions
• Solid grasp of user-centred design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Practical experience with usability testing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to present complex ideas simply
• Extensive understanding of the agile development process and best practices

Personal Skills & Attributes:

• Exceptional collaborator
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to work in a team environment
• Good presentation skills
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to prioritise work appropriately
• Demonstrated ability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment, open to change and company growth
• Approach challenges as a pathway towards personal growth
• Professional approach to time, costs and deadlines

Benefits

• Family member discount for Valenture Institute
• Remote work
• Voluntary savings Programme

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, your application is considered unsuccessful at this time