Senior Instructional Designer, Evaluation and Assessment Specialist, Jobs in Kenya,
Instructional Designer
Responsibilities
- Consult with stakeholders to understand their challenge or opportunity and confirm whether learning will help.
- Gather and interpret data as required to further understand and define the challenge/opportunity.
- Create a High Level Design and Project Plan that outlines an effective solution for the challenge/opportunity, follows instructional design best practice, is achievable in time with the capacity available, and gets value into the hands of learners as quickly as possible. This solution could be a resource, course, program, or pathway.
- Where they are available, work with subject matter experts (SMEs) to define learning objectives and content for the solution. Ideally we are looking for a candidate with subject matter expertise in data annotation who’ll be able to create content with limited support.
- Storyboard well written, interactive learning content (courses, events, and resources) and comms that meet objectives.
- Report to the Learning Designer Manager and stakeholders on progress against the project plan, deadlines, sprint deliverables, and other KPIs.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of learning culture, instructional design, and technical writing across CloudFactory by sharing technical expertise and best practice with the team and organisation.
Requirements
Skills Requirements Essential
- Minimum 3 years experience in a Senior Instructional Designer role or equivalent.
- Deep knowledge of how people learn, learning theories, and instructional design models.
- Proven experience in instructional design at a resource, course and program level.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Proven experience in leading the design, scripting, and development of high-quality learning content (digital and non-digital).
- Very good visual design skills and ability to wireframe, storyboard, and create contemporary digital experiences.
- Proven experience at designing effective assessments, pre-tests, formative, summative as required.
- Proven experience at developing effective learning evaluation strategies, identifying relevant KPIs, collecting data to understand learning impact, and summarising findings for stakeholders.
- Sound project management skills – able to manage a portfolio of projects, working within tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills at all levels.
- Effective interpersonal skills – able to communicate at ease with colleagues of all levels.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a highly organised manner, working as part of a team and on own initiative.
- BS or MA degree in instructional design, educational technology, or similar.
Skills Requirements Desired
- Solid knowledge of responsive course development software and Learning Management Systems.
- Familiarity with website design, video production, and editing.
- An awareness of accessibility standards.
- Experience designing learning solutions for a global audience.
- Experience working and managing projects effectively with an MVP, iterative mindset.
- Able to create supportive environments for learning which includes online community management, promoting collaboration and discussion through social media technologies and teaching experts how to generate and share your own content.
Learning & Development Assessment Specialist
Responsibilities
- Workshop with Learning Design Manager and Senior Stakeholders to identify clear outcomes to learn more about.
- Use a variety of data collection methods such as observation, surveys, user interviews, focus groups and leverage existing data from CloudFactory platforms such as TLMS and CF4.
- Create effective knowledge and task competency assessments using TLMS, data annotation tools, and other platforms to effectively and accurately assess a user’s knowledge and skills.
- Collate and clean data.
- Create dashboards and reports to provide live or summarised insight for the Learning Design Manager and senior stakeholders.
- Create a plan for evaluation and assessment projects, and provide regular updates to stakeholders on project progress against the plan.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of learning culture, question writing, assessment creation, and training evaluation across CloudFactory by sharing technical expertise and best practice with the team and organisation.
Requirements
Essentials
- Minimum 5 years experience in an Evaluation and Assessment Specialist role or equivalent, working in a corporate environment.
- Deep knowledge of how to effectively assess knowledge and skills, and how these can indicate an individual’s potential for high performance.
- Proven experience at designing effective learning assessments to get clear insight into an individual’s knowledge, skills, and potential performance, this may include pre-tests and summative assessments.
- Ability to use a variety of tools to develop effective knowledge and task competency assessments, including: GForms (or other survey tools), rapid authoring tools (such as Gomo or TLMS), and data annotation tools.
- Excellent data collection skills, able to advise on and create effective user observation sessions, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups.
- Excellent data cleaning skills, able to collate data, reformat, and clean as required.
- Excellent data visualistion skills, able to create data visualisations, such as tables, graphs, and charts to communicate what the data is saying clearly.
- Strong writing skills, able to write clear compelling comms to accompany data collection methods, and clear reports for stakeholders.
- Sound project management skills – able to manage a portfolio of projects, working within tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills at all levels.
- Effective interpersonal skills – able to communicate at ease with colleagues of all levels.
- Ability to work in a highly organised manner, working as part of a team and on own initiative.
Desired
- Experience in developing effective psychometric assessments to identify high potential candidates.
- Solid knowledge of responsive course development software and Learning Management Systems for the purposes of creating assessments and extracting data from these experiences.
- Experience designing assessments for a global audience, for whom English may not be a first language.
- Experience working and managing projects effectively with an MVP, iterative mindset.
- Able to create supportive environments for learning and assessment which includes online community management, promoting collaboration and discussion through social media technologies and teaching experts how to generate and share your own content.
- BS or MA degree either in training, data and analytics, or other relevant field.
Benefits
- Great Mission and Culture
- Meaningful Work
- Market competitive salary
- Quarterly variable compensation
- Remote and Homeworking
- Commuter/home office, internet and airtime allowance
- Comprehensive medical cover including dental, vision and emergency benefits and an annual Health Spending Account
- Group life insurance
- Personal development and growth opportunities
- Office snacks and lunch
- Periodic team building and social events