Learning Designer

About the role

Learning Designers in King’s Digital work collaboratively with both academics and creative designers to develop effective and engaging online courses. It is their responsibility to ensure the content and activities reflect the academics’ educational aims and maximise student engagement and learning to support the development of students’ academic and professional abilities. 

We are looking for someone with a sound understanding of pedagogical theory and evidence, who is keen to apply their experience creating e-learning to substantial postgraduate programmes and innovative short courses for professionals.

The ideal candidate would be naturally curious and keen to use their analytical and creative skills in varied subjects, including STEM, healthcare, social sciences, humanities, law and business. Their primary responsibility will be to ensure the high pedagogical quality of King’s Digital programs, modules, and short courses.

The role holder will have the opportunity to work closely with academic leads, module teachers and King’s Digital project team members in a collaborative, consultative manner. They will support the development of effective learning outcomes and assist in adapting or creating content, activities, and assessments suitable for online learning. When designing online lessons and activities, they will also need to consider the features and limitations of the King’s Digital learning platform, preferred software, and accessibility requirements.

This is a full-time post, and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Undergraduate degree in any subject (minimum 2:2 and ideally 2:1 or above or international equivalent).
2. Significant experience designing and/or developing asynchronous e-learning content and activities, including the creation of storyboards or similar visual planning tools.
3. Experience supporting students and/or academics in Higher Education.
4. Experience producing planned, project outputs to competing deadlines both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a dynamic team.
5. Good understanding of the instructional design role and able to demonstrate how their experience is relevant to the role.
6. Substantial understanding and application of learning/ instructional design frameworks, e-learning and distance learning pedagogy and principles, and/or pedagogical or adult learning theory and evidence.
7. High level ability to select information relevant to specified learners and to present complex ideas clearly and creatively in a logical, coherent way.
8. Excellent English language skills and attention to detail: able to express themselves accurately and effectively in both written and verbal communication.

Desirable criteria

1. Postgraduate degree or qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. Education, Instructional Design, with pedagogy and learning technologies as a substantial part; alternatively equivalent level of experience in HE e-Learning field.
2. Familiarity with how virtual online learning environments, such as Moodle, FutureLearn or EdX, can be used to support active learning.
3. Knowledge of how to design learning experiences to maximise inclusion of diverse learners' needs.
4. High level ability to negotiate and communicate well with others in a higher education environment, including good presentation and facilitation skills.
5. Demonstrable commitment to creative innovation, constructive reflection and/or continuous improvement. 

Closing date: 21.7.24

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