Alternative Futures Group
Learning Content Designer - 12 Month Maternity Cover
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Job Purpose
The Learning Content Designer will be responsible for designing, developing, and creating engaging, effective, and impactful learning content and materials.
You will be creative and detail-oriented, bringing a blend of instructional design expertise, creativity, and technical skills that meet the needs of our diverse organizational audience.
Experienced in design methodology for in-person, virtual, and blended learning delivery, you will develop impactful, best-in-class learning experiences to enhance employee engagement, improve performance, and drive organizational success.
Key Accountabilities
- Design and Develop Training Content
- Design and develop high-quality, engaging, and best-in-class learning materials for training sessions, workshops, digital sessions, and blended learning.
- Utilise Instructional Design Principles
- Apply best practice in instructional design and adult learning theory to create learner-centric and outcome-focused training content and learner experiences.
- Use simple, effective, and easy-to-follow guides, instructional videos, interactive activities, assessments, and other relevant training-related methodologies.
- Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts
- Work closely with subject matter experts and key stakeholders to analyze content requirements.
- Ensure accuracy and relevance in the design of training materials.
- Use Creative Software
- Utilize multimedia tools and software to create visually appealing and interactive content aligned with the different learning preferences and needs of the learner.
- Conduct Needs Assessments
- Analyze training needs and learner analysis to identify gaps in current training material and tailor new or updated content to specific audiences.
- Version Control & Quality Management
- Manage the consistency of our training content and conduct regular quality reviews for changes in practice, standards, and legislation.
- Monitor and Evaluate Learning Content
- Build a review process to monitor and evaluate how learning content is used by the 'trainer' and is received by the 'learner'.
- Evaluation data will be used to review and revise content to ensure it is up-to-date and aligned with current best practices, business goals, and learner needs.
- Stay Updated with Industry Trends
- Stay current with emerging training trends, best practices in learning technologies, and instructional design, exploring new ways to enhance the learning experience through microlearning, adaptive learning, AI, and gamification.
- Provide Support to Wider Training Team
- Provide support and guidance to other team members on best practices in content design and development.
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Skills & Knowledge
- Specialist knowledge of learning content design.
- Methodical approach to creating engaging training content.
- Strong understanding of instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, SAM) and adult learning principles.
- Knowledge of training design and storyboard techniques.
- Effective planning and prioritization skills with the ability to set and work to deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple learning projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery, quality standards, and budget compliance.
- Ability to deal with complex and ambiguous information where an answer isn’t immediately clear.
- Excellent oral and written skills to produce data insights, reports, content, and presentations.
- The ability to understand and explain complex technological scenarios into simple end-user content.
Values & Attitudes
- A quick learner who’s keen to develop.
- Takes personal responsibility and holds others to account.
- Is solution-focused and has a “can do attitude”.
- Can inspire others with passion and enthusiasm.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and demonstrates through their behaviors the organizational values.
- Embraces change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- To be accurate and methodical in approach to work.
Experience
- Experience at working collaboratively with various stakeholders at different levels in the organization.
- Proven experience in designing and evaluating training content and how it is experienced by an end user.
- Experience of simplifying the “complex” into easy-to-understand language for end users.
- Experience of working as part of a high-performing team.
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Qualifications and Training
- Degree in HR, Training, OD, Instructional Design, Education, or a related field. Equivalent professional knowledge or experience within a relevant field.
- Strong proficiency of Microsoft 365 suite and associated applications.
Other
- Ability to work remotely in a Hybrid working environment.
- This is a predominantly home-based role, with travel to our collaboration hub in Liverpool and other sites within the north-west required regularly. We therefore require applicants to live within the north-west of England with the use of a vehicle to facilitate in-person working.
With our extended flexible working options, you can choose to work your 35 hours per week on a 9-day fortnight or a 4.5-day week basis, supporting our employees with their work-life balance.
This role is Band I as per our structure.
About Us
We’re Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition.
We’re proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years.
We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create a personalized, outcome-focused plans to achieve their aspirations.
As a ‘values-based’ employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.
At AFG, we also recognize the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life-changing support that we do without people like you!
In return for your contribution, we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development, and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled, and valued from day one of your employment with us.
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