Talent Pool : Instructional Designer Learning Trajectories Care System

War Child Alliance; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Location: worldwide

Consultancy contract

Job summary

War Child Alliance is seeking a Learning Designer to make the Care System learning paths scalable for global use. You will design and co-create blended learning resources with core EBM teams and partners, ensuring accessibility and quality across contexts.

You will develop activity-based, learner-centered courses, including storyboard work, possible animations, video and illustrations, and support translations as needed to reach diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Education in Instructional Design, Digital Arts, or equivalent for global audiences.
• Experience designing scalable learning models.
• Experience with e-learning authoring tools such as Evolve is a must.
• A minimum of 5 years creating in-product micro learning with a portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of learning design projects related to the Care System.
• Lead inclusive co-creation workshops with partners and stakeholders.
• Design, develop and publish blended learning paths and learning resources.
• Create activity-based, learner-centered e-learning with storyboard, animations, video or illustrations.
• Produce accessible learning materials and prototypes for learning paths and platforms.
• Plan user testing and adapt learning trajectories based on feedback.

Skills

Learning design

Facilitation

Co-creation

Instructional design

Blended learning

Education

Instructional Design degree

Tools

Evolve

WordPress

Canva

Video editing

Kaya (Totara/Moodle)

Job description

Your mission

Overview

War Child reaches many thousands of children and youth every year - yet there are 468 million children living with the effects of armed conflict. We will never reach them all by ourselves, which is why our strategic goal is to scale our impact by implementing evidence-based methodologies with partners. Together we can support the mental health and well-being of many more children affected by conflict.

At the heart of our scaling strategy is War Child’s Care System approach. The Care System includes a range of evidence-based methodologies designed to improve the mental health and well-being of children and their caregivers. These components can be selected based on partner'needs, tailored for programme requirements and contextualized and integrated with existing services to build on local strengths.

Role

To make the adaptive Care System accessible to many more children and communities, we aim to collaborate with key stakeholders to co-design simple and effective learning pathways and resources to support all steps in the implementation process.

As Learning Designer Care System, you will provide learning /instructional design expertise and collaborate with the core EBM teams to improve and build on existing learning paths and start new blended learning paths and learning resources. You will bring essential expertise in developing learning paths that are scalable and in line with our guiding principles. Where relevant you co-create and/or collaborate with our replication partners and local implementing partners to ensure the learning paths are contextualised and will be adopted by /co-owned by our replication partners. You will also help to create learning materials and resources to strengthen partner's abilities to implement evidence-based methodologies, including capacities such as coordination and quality assurance.

Because this is a pool recruitment, selected candidates may be considered for current and future assignments depending on programme needs.

What you will do:

Project ownership

• Take the lead in implementing learning design projects related to implementation of the Care System.
• Align with technical leads and ensure input from practitioners, partners, finance and other key stakeholders

Inclusive design

• Design and facilitate co-creation workshops to explore relevant creative questions and the needs and learnings of key stakeholders /partners.
• Ensure partners' needs are centered in all learning paths and learning resources.Ensure the needs of partners are reflected in the final products

Learning Design and Development

• Provide instructional design, analysis and guidance for blended learning paths
• Ensure collaborative/inclusive design processes
• Plan, design and produce an e-learning course that is activity-based, learner-centered, interactive, including storyboard and able to develop (if relevant) animations, video, and/or illustrations.
• Produce or support the design of relevant accessible learning materials
• Publish prototypes related to the learning paths, resources and platforms

Adaptive learning

• Prepare and plan user testing once prototype is published
• Create an adaptive learning process to review the learning trajectories, gather recommendations for adjustments, assess and integrate
• Ensure lessons from Communities of Practice/ learning communities and implementers are gathered and assessed to enrich and improve learning paths and associated resources

To learn more about the role, please review the Job Description.

About the role

What you will do

Your profile

Education

• Education in Instructional Design, Digital Arts, or equivalent (using adult learning principles, methods, theories, and techniques) for global audiences.

Experience

• Experience in designing scalable learning models.
• Experience with e-learning authoring tools such as Evolve is a must.
• A minimum of 5 years creating in-product micro learning and a portfolio showcasing your work.

Knowledge

• Experience with a variety of tools, e-learning authoring tools and learning platforms, such as Evolve, WordPress, Canva, video editing tools, badging platform, and learning management systems (such as Kaya, which is Totara/Moodle based), and use of AI tools for learning design (including translation tools).

Skills

• A passion for co-creating adaptive learning materials.
• Strong facilitation skills to engage global, multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
• An ability to ask the right creative questions to spark new solutions.
• Someone who can build on existing strengths, systems and content.
• Strong coordination skills.

Languages

• Strong written and spoken English language skills.
• Arabic/French/Arabic/Spanish would be an advantage.

Other Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel to organize content sprints and experience field trainings.

What we offer

• Location : This opportunity is open to candidates worldwide; professional proficiency in English is required.
• Type of Contract : Consultancy.

Why You Should Apply

• Meaningful Impact :Contribute directly to improving the lives of children and families affected by conflict through quality education and long-term, sustainable change.
• Professional Growth:Join a dynamic organisation that values learning, innovation, and professional development, with opportunities for capacity building and growth through the role and War Child’s global network.
• Global Reach :Play a key role in scaling a ground-breaking programme across multiple conflict-affected contexts worldwide.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture :Work alongside passionate, mission-driven colleagues in a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace that prioritises safety, fairness and equal opportunity for all.