Learning Designer

Location: Cape Town

Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday 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.

• 5 years + working experience in online or blended Learning Design, or similar role. 
• Strong consultancy and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to develop and/or design courses for multiple LMSs (EdX, Canvas, and Bridge, etc.)
• Proven ability to self-motivate, work autonomously and demonstrate leadership qualities with a multidisciplinary team.
• Deep knowledge of best practices for online and blended learning design.
• Ability to coach peers and external role players on best practices.
• Demonstrable interest in and understanding of agile L&D design and delivery, especially technologically enhanced L&D.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• A passion for great learning and a solutions-orientated approach to learning and design challenges.

About OES 

OES is a vibrant and values-led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student-focused, innovative, and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

Company Culture & Values 

We are a people-focused organization with a culture built around collaboration, connection, and working together toward one common goal. Our vibrant, values-led culture is grounded in four core principles that guide everything we do: 

Passion and Perseverance: We love what we do (even though it’s not always easy) and take pride in creating transformative learning experiences. We bring a ‘can-do’ attitude to our work, tackling challenges and inspiring others. 

Teamwork: We operate as cross-functional teams globally with trust and respect, celebrating success. We have fun while we work and enjoy collaborating with each other and OES partners. 

Agility and Innovation: We are innovative, lateral thinkers who use our skills to do things better for our students. We thrive in ambiguity, embrace change and challenge conventional thinking.  

Integrity: We do what’s right, and what we say we will do, every time. We value a culture of respectful feedback and believe that respect trumps harmony. 

These are some of the perks you can expect when you join the team:

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical allowance
• Commute allowance
• Flexible work for genuine career-life fit
• A healthy and supportive company culture
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity and paternity benefits
• Study leave
• Professional development and mentoring
• Culture Club events
• Company funded lunch and drinks every 6 weeks

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