Job description
- Good Things Foundation – Learning Content Lead
- Lead the creation and execution of learning content designed to bridge the technology capability gap in our community.
- In a society where 1 in 4 Australians are struggling to get online, this is your opportunity to drive social change in a fun way!
About Good Things Foundation Australia
Good Things Foundation Australia is a social change charity that supports people to improve their lives by providing national digital inclusion support programs and campaigns. Striving to ensure the digital divide is acknowledged by decision-makers, they raise the voices of those who are digitally excluded.
Good Things creates local impact at scale, by building capacity in community organisations through specialised training packages, grants, and program support. They work with partners across the community sector, in government and business to develop programs that impact people’s lives.
Working as part of the Good Things Foundation Group with their colleagues in the UK, they aim to close the digital divide for all.
Benefits of working for things Good Things Foundation:
- NFP salary packaging on offer
- Opportunity to learn from an experienced innovative, and highly collaborative Senior Leadership Team
- Wellness Wednesdays
- 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
- Annual learning and development budget
- Work-from-home flexibility options, and a contemporary Sydney CBD office
About the role:
Working collaboratively across Good Things Foundation, this role will lead the development of specialised content that will be used to upskill digital skills learners (particularly those who are most at risk of digital exclusion) and our network of community-based digital mentors (trainers) who help them to learn.
We are seeking a passionate online learning creator who can use engaging methods to support vulnerable people to build their confidence and skills to use technology. This role will champion creativity, innovation and the needs of our community partners and learners, to create high quality and engaging learning experiences for our digital inclusion programs.
Your goal will be to make learning digital skills and keeping up with tech fun and accessible to all!
Candidates who will be successful in this position:
To succeed in this position, you must be passionate, adaptable, and a driven creative or educator who is highly motivated to create social change. Your passion and commitment will be focused on the following:
- Translate complex ideas into simple to understand learning content and makes learning fun and engaging
- Identify and create learning content opportunities that will contribute to organisational growth
- Create learning content plans from research results, learner needs assessments and program/organisations needs
- Bring a creative and innovative approach to delivering train the trainer and digital skills learning resource delivery and production
- Lead the delivery of new and tech-based learning methods
- Work with network of community partners and the people they support to get online
- Keep up to date with new and emerging tech, the digital inclusion conversation and learning content trends
- Actively collaborate, co-design and seek input from the people who will use our learning resources – including our network of community partners – sector experts and our collaborative partners
- Combine visual, audio, verbal and written communication skills to create engaging learning content
- Support learning program outcomes and reporting measures, ensuring content developed has appropriate metrics and impact measures recorded
Essential Knowledge Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience leading the creation of engaging and creative learning or education materials across a range platforms and delivery modes
- Excels at translating complex ideas into easy to understand, plain English and engaging learning content
- A passion for making content for social good and a creative approach to making information/education content engaging and exciting
- High level experience creating engaging train the trainer resources or instructional/skill building content
Education and qualifications
- Degree in communications, digital media production, education or similar, or equivalent recent relevant industry experience
- Cert 4 in Training & Assessment or higher desirable
Application process
To apply please submit your CV and an accompanying Cover Letter, explaining why you are interested in the role and how your values, skills and experience meet the criteria and align with Good Things Foundation Australia
This role is advertised without a closing date, all applications will be reviewed as they are received
Beaumont People has been contracted to recruit this role, therefore please direct all enquiries to Rhonda Newman email [email protected] or Jennifer Mason email [email protected] using the subject line: Learning Content Lead – Good Things Foundation enquiry via EthicalJobs.
At Beaumont People, we believe a diverse workplace is a happy workplace, and we love working with organisations that feel the same way. We encourage applications from people of all different backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from CALD backgrounds and people with disabilities.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital or parental status. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to be made for your application to be assessed we would be more than happy to discuss how that can be arranged.
