Digital Learning Specialist

£45,100 – £50,100 pa

Full time (flexible working options available)

Fixed Term Contract – 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Farringdon, London/Home-based

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for 2 Digital Learning Specialists to join our Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) to design and develop technology-based learning solutions and resources that enable the successful delivery of specialist training courses across the Save the Children and the humanitarian sector.

Please Note: These are initially 6 month contracts with the hope and possibility for extension.

About Us

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA), as part of SCUK’s humanitarian department, provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector.

The HLA’s mission is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. The team combines digital learning platforms, creative learning content and the design, development and delivery of quality accredited capacity strengthening and learning in an exciting and innovative offer that is both unique and unmatched anywhere across the sector. Capacity-strengthening and user-centred learning is, and will continue to be, of increasing importance – a key area to ensure the sector is able to respond effectively and efficiently to crises.

The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond.

About the role

As a Digital Learning Specialist, you will be responsible for designing and developing technology-based learning solutions and resources that enable the successful delivery of specialist training courses across the Save the Children movement and the wider humanitarian sector. Working collaboratively with colleagues from across the team and partners, you will also advise on digital delivery, curriculum design, emerging technology, methodologies and research in this area.

In this role, you will:

• Provide specialist digital learning expertise to support the design and development of quality online courses, blended learning programmes and other resources for the HLA and partners.
• Coordinate and support projects with Learning Solution Specialists and Regional teams and outside subject matter experts to define requirements, learning objectives, scope and delivery mechanisms.
• Design technical solutions that focus on end users’ needs and complete project documentation.
• Develop digital learning solutions using a range of software tools.
• Advise the Learning Solutions Specialists, Regional teams and outside partners on appropriate tools for digital delivery and blended learning.
• Work with the Platform team to quality assure and publish new courses. Advise and support on the future development of digital platforms to meet learning needs.
• Work with Research, Evidence and MEAL colleagues to maximise the opportunities for learning from the development and implementation of learning products that may impact future design and delivery.
• Work with the Creative Partnerships and New Business Development team to support the internal and external communications and marketing of products which have been utilised with others.

About you

The ideal candidate will be a specialist in instructional design, with demonstratable experience of creating storyboards and developing copy for digital content that tells stories, communicates complex ideas and engages learners. A creative and innovative individual with strong analytical and technical abilities and experience of manging digital projects.

It is important that you have:

• Proficiency with e-learning authoring tools to develop engaging learning and experiences (Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, Adobe Captivate, Elucidat, Gomo, Evolve, Adapt).
• Working knowledge of developing courses for Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), ideally Moodle and/or Totora.
• Understanding of industry standards for digital learning resources (SCORM, AICC, LTI and xAPI) and experience of quality assuring and publishing resources onto LMS and other platforms.
• Experience of developing multilingual learning resources and localising content for specific regions.
• Experience of the use of standard industry tools (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign) to produce professional graphics and documents.
• Experience of designing and creating other micro-learning digital resources, for example animations, games, micro-sites, virtual and immersive content.
• Experience of video and audio editing using standard industry tools (Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Camtasia).
• Experience of the use of various webinar (Blackboard Collaborate, Zoom) and blended learning tools (Nearpod, Padlet, Mentimeter, Miro) to help support the remote delivery of technical training.
• Documentation skills and experience following development methodologies (ADDIE).
• Experience following project management methodologies (SCRUM, PRINCE2).
• Commitment to Save the Children’s vision, mission and values.

Closing Date: 13th June

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.

Flexible Working – We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview**.**

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be “Free to Be Me”. We are not looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences – of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability – help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.