Learning Design Lead – Remote / Flexible Location

Teach For Australia would like to acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of the lands throughout Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Australia’s first peoples.

• Opportunity to work with an engaged community of educators – working to close the education gap
• Flexible work practices, including the option to work from home
• Join us in our commitment and vision for Reconciliation, in a space where we learn and grow together

Teach For Australia encourages applicants of all backgrounds to apply and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

About Teach For Australia

Our vision is an Australia where education gives every child greater choice for their future. The mission is to grow a community of leaders committed to equity for children and young people, by recruiting and developing exceptional people to teach and lead across Australian schools.

About the Position

The Learning Design Lead role is responsible for designing and delivering participant learning experiences across Teach for Australia’s programming including the Leadership Development Program (LDP) and the Future Leaders Program (FLP). Learning Design Leads are agile and adaptive generalist roles that coordinate and support project teams with the design and delivery of professional learning to teachers and leaders across Australia.

The Learning Design Lead works across the LDP and FLP teams and stakeholder groups to support high-quality learning experiences for program participants aligned with national standards and TFA partners. Learning Design Leads work across several workstreams, including in-person and virtual program intensives and workshops and coaching.

Please Note:

This role has flexibility for the candidates to be located anywhere in Australia.This can be a part time role (FTE 0.4 – 0.8) or can be a full-time role (FTE 1).Contract end date 31 December 2024

About You

Essential

• At least a bachelor’s degree in education or teaching
• At least 5 years’ experience in teaching, teacher support and/or leadership development roles in schools, including three years of teaching experience in schools with a low socioeconomic status.
• Experience designing, delivering, and evaluating adult professional learning
• Excellent project management skills and experience

Desirable

• Masters level degree (or higher) in education or teaching
• Experience in designing and delivering intensive-style programming for early career teachers and leaders
• Experience as a participant of Teach For All program or as staff of Teach For All partner organisation
• Project management qualification
• Experience in e-learning curriculum and resource development
• Experience in designing and delivering virtual and blended learning models.

Primary Accountabilities

Lead and support learning design and delivery

• Lead or support the development of key projects that inform program direction, including: National Initial Intensive; Regional Intensives; Coaching; Mentoring; and Ongoing Participant Professional Development
• Ensure learning design projects plan(s) are delivered in line with agreed milestones and report on progress and challenges
• Ensure purposeful collaboration in the delivery of learning design projects with cross-organisational teams and external partners and stakeholders (e.g., University Partner)
• Deliver learning in-person and virtually
• Ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of learning design and delivery through survey and assessment
• Where acting as a workstream team member, support the project lead in the delivery of the above, including taking on project-specific roles

Unit Lead

• In collaboration with our University Partner, lead and/or support the development and delivery of units. This can include determining appropriate learning objectives and the design of session-specific materials, including session plans, accompanying resources, suggested readings, and sessional evaluation
• Within the quality assurance framework, train TFA facilitators to deliver content within relevant learning units effectively
• Serve as a TFA unit lead across the Masters of Teaching, including the role of primary course facilitator across the National Initial Intensive, and as required, support regions in the delivery of content

Leadership Coaching

• Oversee the coaching program delivered as part of the Future Leaders Program, including coordination and oversight of the team of casual Leadership Coaches engaged in the program
• Coach program participants one-on-one, primarily through virtual meetings to support them to set and achieve ambitious goals for themselves, their teams and their students
• Read and provide both written and oral feedback to participants’ change project (Innovation project) plans, hold participants to account to realise their plans, and help monitor progress of those plans via coaching support
• Provide feedback to participants on their leadership performance, based on direct observation and reviewing other forms of evidence
• Collect and analyse data on participant skills and impact to evaluate program effectiveness

Contributory Accountabilities

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Support alignment and sharing of learning between the Future Leaders Program and Teach For Australia Leadership Development Program as relevant
• Support activities and processes to select future participants
• Support design and development of evaluation activity to measure the impact of The Future Leaders Program
• Support reporting and program sustainability initiatives
• Develop and execute on plans to build networks of participants both within regions and nationally to support peer to peer learning, collaboration and sustainability of program outcomes
• Develop and build upon partnerships with key community organisations, recognised providers and leadership experts to foster ongoing connection and collaboration with key stakeholders
• Act as program and brand ambassadors when speaking about the program and work

How to Apply

Please apply via the Apply Now link with your CV.

Please note that you must have the appropriate right to work in Australia in order to be eligible for this role. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a National Police Clearance, and obtain a valid Working With Children Check.

If you have any questions about our recruitment, please email ​[email protected] .

If you don’t hear back from us 2 weeks after closing the role, please note you were unsuccessful for this position. For more information about Teach For Australia and its impact on educational disadvantage, please visit teachforaustralia.org.