Senior Learning Designer (contract)

Curio Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Curio Group is seeking a leader in learning design to drive exceptional online learning experiences across higher education, vocational education, schools, and enterprises. You will manage multiple concurrent projects, mentor teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.

You will apply educational theories, leverage digital resources, and design content that aligns with AQF and industry standards while fostering innovative approaches in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree with 5+ years in a higher education environment.
• Expertise in designing and developing online learning content.
• Experience managing people and complex programs within budgets and timelines.
• Strong understanding of learning theories and educational technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for stakeholder relationships.
• High-level problem-solving and adaptability.
• Experience using educational technologies and LMS in curriculum design.
• Ability to lead, take initiative and overcome obstacles.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of exceptional learning experiences and manage projects and relationships with stakeholders.
• Undertake client and senior stakeholder management across large work programs.
• Manage projects and teams, contribute to thought leadership and mentorship.
• Develop and maintain team processes, communications and culture.
• Apply pedagogical techniques to architecture, design, and creation of learning resources.
• Engage in business development and pursue new opportunities while managing client relationships.
• Oversee multiple complex concurrent projects with planning, resources, and communication.
• Identify risks and issues and take timely action with clients and teams.
• Co-design and create innovative online learning experiences with subject matter experts.
• Write high-quality student-facing material to AQF and industry standards.

Skills

Online learning design

Pedagogical practices

Project management

Stakeholder management

Educational technologies

Curriculum design

Leadership

Conflict resolution

Education

Undergraduate degree in education or related field

Masters degree or comparable experience

Job description

About Curio

Curio brings strategy, learning design, technology and delivery together to solve complex learning challenges as one connected system. Since 2016, we've helped education providers and organisations turn ambitious ideas into learning that people can use. We're a distributed team supported by a global Faculty community, working across higher education, vocational education, schools, professional learning and enterprise in seven countries.

Find out more about us at https://curiogroup.com

Objectives of this role

The primary responsibility of this position, which reports to the Head of Learning Services, is to provide leadership and expertise in the design of exceptional learning experiences while also managing projects and relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to consistently meet project deliverables to a high standard and achieve business objectives.

Key responsibilities and duties

• Undertake successful client and senior stakeholder management across a mix of projects in the context of large work programs.

• Manage projects and teams, contribute to thought leadership, provide mentorship, and undertake successful performance partner relationships.

• Develop and maintain successful team processes, capabilities, communications and culture.

• Apply an understanding of various pedagogical techniques and learning ecosystems to the architecture, design, and creation of successful learning resources, activities, and assessments in several higher education fields.

• Engage in business development activities, including presenting to potential clients, writing proposals, and pursuing new opportunities, as well as managing existing client relationships to develop return business.

• Oversee and successfully guide several complex concurrent projects to ensure that all projects have appropriate planning, oversight, resource management, communication, and control.

• Identify risks and issues impacting projects, portfolios and teams and work with clients and project teams and take timely, considered action to manage these appropriately.

• Work closely with subject matter experts and teaching staff to co-design and create innovative online learning experiences.

• Work independently or in a distributed team using a variety of collaboration tools.

• Write high-quality student-facing material to appropriate AQF and industry standards.

Skills and qualifications

• An undergraduate degree with 5+ years of experience working in a higher education/University learning and teaching environment.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and developing online learning content.

• Demonstrated experience in managing people and complex programs of work while consistently delivering outcomes within budgets and timelines.

• Strong understanding of learning theories, pedagogical practices and their relationship to current and emerging educational technologies.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff, students and external stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to effectively explain complex educational ideas.

• High-level problem-solving skills and an ability to be adaptive and innovative.

• Experience in the use and integration of educational technologies, rich and interactive media and digital resources in curriculum design within a learning management system.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflict and solve problems in a complex environment focussed on quality improvement, excellence, and innovation in the use of technology to enhance learning in higher education.

• Demonstrated ability to take the lead, exercise initiative and overcome obstacles.

Desired skills and qualifications

• Masters Degree or comparable experience.

• Proven knowledge of the higher education sector and online educational trends nationally and globally.

• Dual-sector experience would be an advantage.

Work health and safety responsibilities

• Take reasonable care for own health and safety

• Take reasonable care for the health and safety of others

• Comply with any reasonable instruction

• Cooperate with any reasonable policies and procedures

• Lead by example and promote health and safety at every opportunity