Freelance Senior Instructional Designer

LRN Corporation; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading ethics and compliance firm in South Africa is seeking a Freelance Senior Instructional Designer to create engaging training solutions for global clients. This role involves leading a team and developing innovative e-learning content tailored to client needs. Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years of experience in instructional design and strong creative writing skills. Fluency in English is essential. This position promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in Instructional Design.
• Experience of Creative Writing.
• Strong proficiency in English required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Instructional Designers and subject matter experts to develop e-learning content.
• Analyze, design, and implement online learning solutions.
• Develop templates and manage course content files.

Skills

Creative Writing

Instructional Design

Visual Design

Communication

Team Coordination

Education

BA or equivalent experience

Tools

HTML5

Articulate Rise

Storyline

PDF

Job description

Position

Freelance Senior Instructional Designer

Location: South Africa

Overview

About LRN:

LRN is the world’s leading dedicated ethics and compliance SaaS company, helping more than 30 million people every year navigate complex regional and global regulatory environments and build ethical, responsible cultures. With over 3,000 clients across the US, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America—including some of the world’s most respected and successful brands—we’re proud to be the long-term partner trusted to reduce organizational risk and drive principled performance.

Named one of Inc Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies, LRN is redefining how organizations turn values into action. Our state-of-the-art platform combines intuitive design, mobile accessibility, robust analytics, and industry benchmarking—enabling organizations to create, manage, deliver, and audit ethics and compliance programs with confidence. Backed by a unique blend of technology, education, and expert advisement, LRN helps companies turn their values into real-world behaviors and leadership practices that deliver lasting competitive advantage.

About the role

As our Learning Manager, you will be designing training solutions for our clients, who are represented by some of the largest brands in the world. You will meet with the client, either virtually or in person, visiting them at their offices to find out their business needs. You will attend a Design Workshop where you will deliver exciting ideas that will have the greatest impact on the learners; a 20-minute e-learning course, an interactive workbook, a game, an animated sequence, an acted drama – or a combination of ALL these things. Then you will guide a team of Graphic Designers, Programmers, and Instructional Designers through the project to ensure that training solution is creative, captivating, modern and will create a measurable change in the organization.

What you'll do

• Leads Instructional Designers and subject matter experts across the content team to develop e-learning course content.
• Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating online learning and support solutions based on the client requirements using different digital media appropriate to their needs; and working with Instructional Designers on instructional, graphic and assessment design across multiple learning project workflows simultaneously, within stipulated standards, resources, and deadlines
• Responsible for coming with innovative creative ideas which will help in design and implementation
• Leads the team of Instructional Designers to ensure greater team coordination
• Responsible for a strong, versatile creative writing skills and guides the team to write for e-learning, animations, drama, printed materials etc
• Develop templates, organize, manage, and repurpose course content files (audio, video, SCORM), schedule periodic course reviews, and track documentation and version control in order to manage content creation and the effective organization of digital and digitized information
• Responsible to run a creative meeting and keep it on-track
• Responsible for multiple delivery methods (HTML5, Storyline, Articulate Rise, PDF, Word, PPT.)

What we're looking for

• A minimum of 4 years' experience in Instructional Design
• BA or equivalent experience
• Experience of Creative Writing
• Has strong views about how best to communicate information to a diverse audience.
• Has an eye for good visual design
• Primary fluency/bilingual proficiency or full professional proficiency with English (per the Interagency Roundtable scale)

LRN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.