Freelance Senior Instructional Designer

Location: South Africa

About LRN

Do you want to use your Senior Instructional Designer expertise to help people around the world do the right thing? Join us at LRN to be a part of a global company where you can make an impact.

LRN is a SaaS based e-Learning provider with a presence across US, EMEA, APAC and LatAm. More than 2,500 companies worldwide (including some of the world’s most recognizable brands) utilize LRN services and leverage LRN e-learning courses to help navigate complex regulatory environments and foster ethical, responsible, and inclusive cultures. In partnership with LRN, companies translate their values into concrete corporate practices, training materials, and leadership behaviors that create a sustainable competitive advantage. By acting upon shared values, companies and their people find the means to out behave and outperform.

As our Learning Manager, you will be designing training solutions for our clients, who are represented by some of the largest brands in the world. You will meet with the client, either virtually or in person, visiting them at their offices to find out their business needs. You will attend a Design Workshop where you will deliver exciting ideas that will have the greatest impact on the learners; a 20-minute e-learning course, an interactive workbook, a game, an animated sequence, an acted drama – or a combination of ALL these things. Then you will guide a team of Graphic Designers, Programmers, and Instructional Designers through the project to ensure that training solution is creative, captivating, modern and will create a measurable change in the organization.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Leads Instructional Designers and subject matter experts across the content team to develop e-learning course content.
• Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating online learning and support solutions based on the client requirements using different digital media appropriate to their needs; and working with Instructional Designers on instructional, graphic and assessment design across multiple learning project workflows simultaneously, within stipulated standards, resources, and deadlines.
• Responsible for coming with innovative creative ideas which will help in design and implementation.
• Leads the team of Instructional Designers to ensure greater team coordination.
• Responsible for a strong versatile creative writing skills and guides the team to write for e-learning, animations, drama, printed materials etc.
• Develop templates, organize, manage, and repurpose course content files (audio, video, SCORM), schedule periodic course reviews, and track documentation and version control in order to manage content creation and the effective organization of digital and digitized information.
• Responsible to run a creative meeting and keep it on-track.
• Responsible for multiple delivery methods (HTML5, Storyline, Articulate Rise, PDF, Word, PPT.)

• A minimum of 4 years' experience in Instructional Design
• BA or equivalent experience
• Experience of Creative Writing
• Has strong views about how best to communicate information to a diverse audience.

• Has an eye for good visual design
• Primary fluency/bilingual proficiency or full professional proficiency with English (per the Interagency Roundtable scale)

• Competitive hourly rates