12 Educational Design jobs in South Africa

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Assignment: Learning Design for Deel’s Leadership Academy

Contract Period: June 1st, 2024 – December 1st, 2024

Scope: Deliver comprehensive, multi-modal learning resources in collaboration with the People Development Partners, to support the creation, launch and iteration of Deel’s Leadership Academy within H2 2024.

Contract Deliverables:

• Develop interactive e-learning modules (using Articulate) and associated or stand-alone assets including but not limited to animations, videos, quizzes, and case studies on topics related to the Leadership Academy programs.
• In partnership with People Development Partners, design visually engaging live leadership workshops plus custom-designed facilitator guides and participant workbooks.
• Create visually engaging job aids, infographics, and one-pagers summarizing key leadership models, frameworks, and best practices for quick reference and reinforcement.
• Support with the creation of ‘marketing’ content for the Leadership Academy, including the design of promotional materials such as videos, slide decks and other visual assets.

Total Rewards

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Some things you’ll enjoy

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available

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HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world.

We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers.

We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook), which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work. We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology.

This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries.

We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education, who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). We're backed by nearly investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history.

As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale-up tech business, join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

As our full-time Head of Learning Design at HyperionDev, you will lead the critical functions of course design, development, and evaluation. This is a new role that exists within the Learning Experience part of the organisation.

The Head of Learning Design will oversee all aspects of HyperionDev's course strategy, development, and maintenance to ensure that our learners have the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to embark on a career in tech. Reporting directly to the Director of Learning Experience, the Head of Learning Design will also be responsible for line managing a number of HyperionDev learning designers, course evaluators, and other specialists, setting key goals and expectations as it relates to new course development and existing portfolio maintenance. To excel in this role, you need to be able to think strategically and prioritise effectively in order to deliver on ambitious targets related to course quality, student satisfaction, retention, and engagement.

It will require someone who can manage multiple tasks and priorities as well as people, while keeping sight of bigger picture goals and targets.

1. Oversee new course development and existing portfolio maintenance to ensure learner success, improved bootcamp completion rates, learner retention & satisfaction.
2. Streamline and scale course building and course maintenance strategies to drive efficiency, contain scope, and improve course quality.
3. Translate department and business goals into regular team operations.
4. Manage and develop team members by establishing quarterly performance goals, allocating resources, assessing performance, conducting coaching conversations, providing feedback and proposing individual merit, and/or promotional increases.
5. Plan and oversee course production and maintenance in collaboration with HyperionDev's Director of Learning Experience and Operations Manager.
6. Review, update and oversee departmental success metrics related to course quality, student satisfaction, progression and graduation.
7. Work cross-functionally with all relevant teams to research, propose, and implement scalable, effective and efficient approaches to teaching and learning at HyperionDev.

Minimum

1. 7+ years experience in learning/instruction design, ideally within EdTech
2. 5+ years direct team management experience, having directly line managed a team of 5+ individuals
3. A deep understanding of learning design and educational technology best practices in the context of online/blended higher education
4. Experience working with high-ranking university partners or other prestigious institutions
5. Experience vetting and onboarding scalable methodologies, tools and platforms to enable and support the course design, development and evaluation processes
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
7. Excellent relationship management skills
8. Good business acumen

Preferred

1. A degree in Learning Design, Instructional Design, Learning & Development, or other relevant qualification
2. A proven track record of scaling teams and support structures within a startup environment, ideally in EdTech
3. Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, Basecamp, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, etc.
4. Experience aligning content to accredited material and running the administration process of accreditation
5. Experience with the production and maintenance of STEM/Coding content

Hybrid work: We are a hybrid work organisation offering flexibility on your schedule. Remote working options are available for candidates not in proximity of a HyperionDev Campus.

Generous annual leave and medical benefits: We provide up to 20 annual leave days as part of our leave policy, as well as health insurance or medical aid benefits for our staff.

Learn new tech skills: We offer our employees the opportunity to enrol part-time in our Coding Bootcamps.

Join the heart of tech in Africa, Europe and the US: You'll work with the best of the best and rub shoulders with the world leaders in edtech, developer education, and developer assessments.

Join one of the most ambitious and highest performing tech companies in the space, with a management team that draws their former experience from top tech companies.

Life-changing work: Solve real problems that make education and tech careers accessible to those who need it most: you're allowed to brag about it.

We're a people-forward company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.

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About Us

HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook), which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.

About Us

HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook), which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.

We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education, who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).

We're backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale-up tech business, join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

About The Role

As our full-time Head of Learning Design at HyperionDev, you will lead the critical functions of course design, development and evaluation. This is a new role that exists within the Learning Experience part of the organisation. The Head of Learning Design will oversee all aspects of HyperionDev's course strategy, development and maintenance to ensure that our learners have the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to embark on a career in tech.

Reporting directly to the Director of Learning Experience, the Head of Learning Design will also be responsible for line managing a number of HyperionDev learning designers, course evaluators, and other specialists, setting key goals and expectations as it relates to new course development and existing portfolio maintenance.

To excel in this role you need to be able to think strategically and prioritise effectively in order to deliver on ambitious targets related to course quality, student satisfaction, retention and engagement. It will require someone who can manage multiple tasks and priorities as well as people, while keeping sight of bigger picture goals and targets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee new course development and existing portfolio maintenance to ensure learner success, improved bootcamp completion rates, learner retention & satisfaction.
• Streamline and scale course building and course maintenance strategies to drive efficiency, contain scope, and improve course quality.
• Translate department and business goals into regular team operations.
• Manage and develop team members by establishing quarterly performance goals, allocating resources, assessing performance, conducting coaching conversations, providing feedback and proposing individual merit, and/or promotional increases.
• Plan and oversee course production and maintenance in collaboration with HyperionDev's Director of Learning Experience and Operations Manager.
• Review, update and oversee departmental success metrics related to course quality, student satisfaction, progression and graduation.
• Work cross-functionally with all relevant teams to research, propose and implement scalable, effective and efficient approaches to teaching and learning at HyperionDev.
  
  

• 7+ years experience in learning/instruction design, ideally within EdTech
• 5+ years direct team management experience, having directly line managed a team of 5+ individuals
• A deep understanding of learning design and educational technology best practices in the context of online/blended higher education
• Experience working with high-ranking university partners or other prestigious institutions
• Experience vetting and onboarding scalable methodologies, tools and platforms to enable and support the course design, development and evaluation processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Good business acumen
  
  

• A degree in Learning Design, Instructional Design, Learning & Development, or other relevant qualification
• A proven track record of scaling teams and support structures within a startup environment, ideally in EdTech
• Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, Basecamp, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, etc.
• Experience aligning content to accredited material and running the administration process of accreditation
• Experience with the production and maintenance of STEM/Coding content
  
  

• Seniority level Director

• Employment type Part-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries E-Learning Providers

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HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook), which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.

We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education, who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).

We're backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale-up tech business, join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

As our full-time Head of Learning Design at HyperionDev, you will lead the critical functions of course design, development and evaluation. This is a new role that exists within the Learning Experience part of the organisation. The Head of Learning Design will oversee all aspects of HyperionDev’s course strategy, development and maintenance to ensure that our learners have the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to embark on a career in tech.

Reporting directly to the Director of Learning Experience, the Head of Learning Design will also be responsible for line managing a number of HyperionDev learning designers, course evaluators, and other specialists, setting key goals and expectations as it relates to new course development and existing portfolio maintenance.

To excel in this role you need to be able to think strategically and prioritise effectively in order to deliver on ambitious targets related to course quality, student satisfaction, retention and engagement. It will require someone who can manage multiple tasks and priorities as well as people, while keeping sight of bigger picture goals and targets.

• Oversee new course development and existing portfolio maintenance to ensure learner success, improved bootcamp completion rates, learner retention & satisfaction.
• Streamline and scale course building and course maintenance strategies to drive efficiency, contain scope, and improve course quality.
• Translate department and business goals into regular team operations.
• Manage and develop team members by establishing quarterly performance goals, allocating resources, assessing performance, conducting coaching conversations, providing feedback and proposing individual merit, and/or promotional increases.
• Plan and oversee course production and maintenance in collaboration with HyperionDev’s Director of Learning Experience and Operations Manager.
• Review, update and oversee departmental success metrics related to course quality, student satisfaction, progression and graduation.
• Work cross-functionally with all relevant teams to research, propose and implement scalable, effective and efficient approaches to teaching and learning at HyperionDev.

• 7+ years experience in learning/instruction design, ideally within EdTech
• 5+ years direct team management experience, having directly line managed a team of 5+ individuals
• A deep understanding of learning design and educational technology best practices in the context of online/blended higher education
• Experience working with high-ranking university partners or other prestigious institutions
• Experience vetting and onboarding scalable methodologies, tools and platforms to enable and support the course design, development and evaluation processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Good business acumen

• A degree in Learning Design, Instructional Design, Learning & Development, or other relevant qualification
• A proven track record of scaling teams and support structures within a startup environment, ideally in EdTech
• Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, Basecamp, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, etc.
• Experience aligning content to accredited material and running the administration process of accreditation
• Experience with the production and maintenance of STEM/Coding content

Hybrid work : We are a hybrid work organisation offering flexibility on your schedule. Remote working options are available for candidates not in proximity of a HyperionDev Campus.

Generous annual leave and medical benefits: We provide up to 20 annual leave days as part of our leave policy, as well as health insurance or medical aid benefits for our staff.

Learn new tech skills: We offer our employees the opportunity to enrol part-time in our Coding Bootcamps.

Join the heart of tech in Africa, Europe and the US: You'll work with the best of the best and rub shoulders with the world leaders in edtech, developer education, and developer assessments. Join one of the most ambitious and highest performing tech companies in the space, with a management team that draws their former experience from top tech companies.

Life-changing work: Solve real problems that make education and tech careers accessible to those who need it most: you're allowed to brag about it.

We're a people-forward company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.

HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook), which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.

We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education, who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).

We're backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale-up tech business, join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

As our full-time Head of Learning Design at HyperionDev, you will lead the critical functions of course design, development and evaluation. This is a new role that exists within the Learning Experience part of the organisation. The Head of Learning Design will oversee all aspects of HyperionDev’s course strategy, development and maintenance to ensure that our learners have the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to embark on a career in tech.

Reporting directly to the Director of Learning Experience, the Head of Learning Design will also be responsible for line managing a number of HyperionDev learning designers, course evaluators, and other specialists, setting key goals and expectations as it relates to new course development and existing portfolio maintenance.

To excel in this role you need to be able to think strategically and prioritise effectively in order to deliver on ambitious targets related to course quality, student satisfaction, retention and engagement. It will require someone who can manage multiple tasks and priorities as well as people, while keeping sight of bigger picture goals and targets.

• Oversee new course development and existing portfolio maintenance to ensure learner success, improved bootcamp completion rates, learner retention & satisfaction.
• Streamline and scale course building and course maintenance strategies to drive efficiency, contain scope, and improve course quality.
• Translate department and business goals into regular team operations.
• Manage and develop team members by establishing quarterly performance goals, allocating resources, assessing performance, conducting coaching conversations, providing feedback and proposing individual merit, and/or promotional increases.
• Plan and oversee course production and maintenance in collaboration with HyperionDev’s Director of Learning Experience and Operations Manager.
• Review, update and oversee departmental success metrics related to course quality, student satisfaction, progression and graduation.
• Work cross-functionally with all relevant teams to research, propose and implement scalable, effective and efficient approaches to teaching and learning at HyperionDev.

• 7+ years experience in learning/instruction design, ideally within EdTech
• 5+ years direct team management experience, having directly line managed a team of 5+ individuals
• A deep understanding of learning design and educational technology best practices in the context of online/blended higher education
• Experience working with high-ranking university partners or other prestigious institutions
• Experience vetting and onboarding scalable methodologies, tools and platforms to enable and support the course design, development and evaluation processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Good business acumen

• A degree in Learning Design, Instructional Design, Learning & Development, or other relevant qualification
• A proven track record of scaling teams and support structures within a startup environment, ideally in EdTech
• Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, Basecamp, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, etc.
• Experience aligning content to accredited material and running the administration process of accreditation
• Experience with the production and maintenance of STEM/Coding content

Hybrid work : We are a hybrid work organisation offering flexibility on your schedule. Remote working options are available for candidates not in proximity of a HyperionDev Campus

Generous annual leave and medical benefits: We provide up to 20 annual leave days as part of our leave policy, as well as health insurance or medical aid benefits for our staff.

Learn new tech skills: We offer our employees the opportunity to enrol part-time in our Coding Bootcamps.

Join the heart of tech in Africa, Europe and the US: You'll work with the best of the best and rub shoulders with the world leaders in edtech, developer education, and developer assessments. Join one of the most ambitious and highest performing tech companies in the space, with a management team that draws their former experience from top tech companies.

Life-changing work: Solve real problems that make education and tech careers accessible to those who need it most: you're allowed to brag about it.

We're a people-forward company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.

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Job Overview

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

We are looking for a senior manager to help design Group-wide learning solutions to enhance the value of Learning in delivering on our strategy and moving towards our vision – Africa is our home, we drive her growth . In this role, you will deliver on our Learning strategy by researching and designing diverse development experiences in partnership with business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) colleagues. The ideal candidate will be a strategic designer, efficient project manager, and problem solver, who can manage complex learning delivery. We need someone ready to work in a changing environment, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications
Degree in Social Science or equivalent.

Experience required
• A solid 8-10 years of experience in learning, including 3-4 years of leading a team.
• Research, design, develop and implement multi-year Group-wide learning programmes.
• Design sustainable and well managed programmes and processes.
• Engage the business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) community on learning needs and optimal design.
• Experiment with learning and people insights technologies to optimise the value of learning experiences.
• Devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences.
• Engage with a range of learning modalities to create impactful learning experiences.
• Use strong stakeholder management and communication skills to devise the best solutions.
• Scan the global environment and integrate macro trends in learning design and delivery into our designs.
• Coach learning teams to design optimally.
• Collaborate across P&C centres of excellence and all learning teams across the business.
• Manage collaborative and respectful relationships with partner vendors.

Additional Information

Technical Competencies
• Learning and Development: Strong experience in Learning and Development.
• Project Management: Exceptional skills in managing and organising multiple parallel projects.
• Learning Design: Exceptional skills in learning experience design and academy design.
• Communications: Strong stakeholder engagement, negotiation, collaboration and presentation skills.
• External Partnership: Experience in partnering with vendors for learning value.
• Learning Technology Adoption: Ability to devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences.
• Learning Technology: Experience in sharing learning experience digitally through most appropriate platforms – LMSs, LXPs, micro-learning platforms, content libraries etc. Experience in using people insights technology to harness data insights for learning experience improvement.

Job Overview

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

We are looking for a senior manager to help design Group-wide learning solutions to enhance the value of Learning in delivering on our strategy and moving towards our vision – Africa is our home, we drive her growth . In this role, you will deliver on our Learning strategy by researching and designing diverse development experiences in partnership with business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) colleagues. The ideal candidate will be a strategic designer, efficient project manager, and problem solver, who can manage complex learning delivery. We need someone ready to work in a changing environment, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications
Degree in Social Science or equivalent.

Experience required
• A solid 8-10 years of experience in learning, including 3-4 years of leading a team.
• Research, design, develop and implement multi-year Group-wide learning programmes.
• Design sustainable and well managed programmes and processes.
• Engage the business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) community on learning needs and optimal design.
• Experiment with learning and people insights technologies to optimise the value of learning experiences.
• Devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences.
• Engage with a range of learning modalities to create impactful learning experiences.
• Use strong stakeholder management and communication skills to devise the best solutions.
• Scan the global environment and integrate macro trends in learning design and delivery into our designs.
• Coach learning teams to design optimally.
• Collaborate across P&C centres of excellence and all learning teams across the business.
• Manage collaborative and respectful relationships with partner vendors.

Additional Information

Technical Competencies
• Learning and Development: Strong experience in Learning and Development.
• Project Management: Exceptional skills in managing and organising multiple parallel projects.
• Learning Design: Exceptional skills in learning experience design and academy design.
• Communications: Strong stakeholder engagement, negotiation, collaboration and presentation skills.
• External Partnership: Experience in partnering with vendors for learning value.
• Learning Technology Adoption: Ability to devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences.
• Learning Technology: Experience in sharing learning experience digitally through most appropriate platforms – LMSs, LXPs, micro-learning platforms, content libraries etc. Experience in using people insights technology to harness data insights for learning experience improvement.

Who are we?

SanlamConnect is dedicated to supporting, growing and empowering clients with affordable, easy and suitable solutions, primarily through face-to-face intermediary channels, but also directly. We have approximately 2,000 tied advisers and 2,000 supporting independent brokers, all dedicated to meet the financial needs of our clients. Our vision: We aspire to be the best at building enduring relationships by connecting clients with Sanlam through intermediaries and directly. We create sustainable value by attracting new clients, supporting ongoing client engagement and providing adaptive solutions designed to answer life’s financial questions. ULTIMATELY WE GROW AND PROTECT WEALTH.

This is a specialist role, which is responsible for research, design and development of training content and related workshop material in support of client and/or business requirements and with specific focus on alignment with relevant financial services legislation.

This role is responsible for:

• Providing support to the business by integrating technology into the curriculum and working with the business to successfully implement learning technologies
• Assessing instructional needs within the business and identifying applicable solutions to enhance learning
• Development of instructional content used to support online, blended, and face-to-face learning interventions.
• Assisting with the development of web based and multimedia instructional materials to support learning and development.
• Designing, developing, and delivering professional and technical training for the business on current technologies and new initiatives in the area of instructional technology through web-based tutorials, instructor-led and face-to-face workshops, remote web-conference sessions, and online self-paced training programs.

The role will further support with:

• Scoping and managing research and design projects as and when required
• Designing training workshops in relation to content, structure, and process
• Rolling out of new training including pilots and train-the trainer sessions
• Maintaining, updating, and reviewing of existing training content

• Relevant B Degree
• A relevant professional qualification (e.g., Instructional Technology / Design Qualification) will be advantageous
• E-Learning / Graphic Design experience is recommended
• CFP qualification will be advantageous
• Assessor / Moderator certification is recommended

• Computers and peripheral devices
• Win and Mobile OS, MS Office, Exchange
• Moodle: LMS
• Video and web conferencing, multimedia, learning management and lecture capture systems; courseware development in HTML, Flash, web authoring, desktop publishing and other applications (Adobe CS, Captivate, Articulate, etc.).
• Articulate, Camtasia, AVS, Raptivity, SnagIt, Flipping Book, SAP, Productivity, Handbrake, Visio Photoshop, Notepad, SPP
• Adult Learning Principles and different learning styles/types
• E-Learning and blended learning development
• Training assessment and evaluation
• Training Needs Analysis processes
• Financial Services Product Knowledge (Sanlam and competitors)
• Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge
• Full understanding of the different training qualification frameworks
• Sanlam sales and advice processes
• Research methodology
• Project management

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Detailed minded
• Relationship building and networking
• Structured and good planning skills/co-ordination skills
• Innovative and problem solver
• Decision quality
• Technical professional skills
• Presentation skills
• Influencing abilit
• Coaching mindset
• Continuous learning

• The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
• Closing date: 18 July 2025
• The recruiter reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement prior to the closing date or to allow further applications to be submitted after the closing date indicated.

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

Role Type: Contract - Freelancing Hybrid Position (Not full day)

Salary: hourly rate at R240-R260 per hour

Key criteria for consideration:

• Min 2 years’ experience in a LMS Technical Support role involving instructional design using authoring tools such as Articulate 360 and other Storyboarding tools
• Min Tertiary Diploma in Education, L&D, HR, Instructional Design or IT
• Candidates with certification or completed coursework in LMS, instructional design or e-learning will be given preference
• Project Management experience NB! Using Agile methodology
• Understanding of the Learning Process ADDIE Model
• Experience using Adobe tools as well as video editing to design training materials and e-learning content
• Must know e-learning software and content authoring tools

Responsibilities

• Learning Management System (LMS) Technical back-end support to students and faculty.
• Technical and Administration support with migration, roll-out and implementation of new LMS.
• Liaising with LMS vendor (Moodle) on technical issues.
• Administrative support in the transition of content onto the new LMS System
  • Supporting project planning for the transition and update of Academy content across 4 programmes - with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and faculty.

• Engaging with LMS and instructional design vendors on content development and updates.

If you have not received any feedback from us within 5 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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