Senior Instructional Designer - London, United Kingdom - The Key Support Services

The Key Support Services

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Instructional designer | London | £35,000 - £45,000 | full time, permanent**- Are you looking for an instructional designer role in a fast-growing business where people are at the heart of everything we do?_

Would you like to work within a socially conscious organisation that is making a real impact in the education sector?_
Come join us_

The company
We're a mission-driven content business that is one of the education sector's most-loved brands.

You'll join a team and wider organisation dedicated to providing school leaders with practical resources of the highest quality, so that they can make a meaningful impact on their schools and communities.

Why work for us?
We place huge importance on caring for and developing our people.

If you join us, you can expect a good work-life balance and the training and support you need to succeed in your role and continue to progress.

We're a socially conscious company, but one that likes to have fun

We offer flexible working, a generous holiday allowance, flexible hours, buying and selling holiday, enhanced parental leave pay, free breakfast and refreshments in the office, regular socials and much more.

This role is based in London, but you can work from anywhere in the UK as long as you can make it into the office 2 times a month for whole-team office days.

The role

We're looking for a creative, empathetic, and ambitious instructional designer to join our team of content editors, content designers, and sub-editors.

You'll work primarily on The Key Safeguarding, delivering new training content that helps school staff keep children safe, and helping us maintain and improve a content library that currently includes 8 elearning courses, scenario-based safeguarding practice materials, and dozens of in-person training resources.

You'll also use your learning design expertise to support the development and delivery of training resources across a wide range of other topics and formats on our Leaders and CPD services.

You will:

Design and create high quality, engaging, practical multimedia training materials for school staff, including elearning courses, scenariobased learning resources, adaptable inperson training materials, takeaway resources and immersive video
Specialise in the science of learning design, tirelessly seeking new ways to engage our audience and ensure training is impactful, and use your expertise to support colleagues and projects across the team
Own the delivery and quality of individual briefs and contribute to decisions about what resources we create, taking accountability for our training content alongside our training content lead
Maintain and edit existing training materials to keep our content current and fresh
Work with our talented team of content editors and subeditors at every stage of the training development process to deliver onbrand content, in our tone of voice, to the highest editorial standards
Collaborate with colleagues to research a range of training topics and requirements, combining rigorous desk research, trustworthy external sources, internal expertise and user research with school staff
Distill robust research into practical training content that reflects statutory requirements and good practice
Build and maintain effective relationships with agencies and freelancers (e.g., around video) to help us deliver excellent multimedia content on time and in full
Use qualitative and quantitative feedback and insights to adapt our training content, so we always provide the most practical and valuable training on the market

This role sits within our cross-product, multimedia content team, and reports to our training content lead. You'll also work closely with our product management and marketing teams.

The ideal person

You will:

Have 2+ years of instructional design experience
Have an expert understanding of adult learning theory and instructional design models
Be proficient with Articulate 360 (in particular, Storyline and RISE) and SCORM
Have excellent research and writing skills
Have a flair for visual design, and a creative spark
Have an interest in the education sector, and a strong focus on professional learning
Value collaboration and feedback

It would be nice if you:

Have knowledge of safeguarding in education, or experience of working in safeguarding roles, but it's more important to us that you're willing to develop a deep understanding of how our members work and the challenges they face
Have experience working with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or similar design software
Have knowledge and experience of accessibility standards and practices in elearning
Have mentoring or line management experience

If you don't have all of the skills or experience listed above, but think you'd be a great fit for our team, we'd love to hear from you or chat about the role in more detail.

How to apply
We are an equal opportuni