Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. E...
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Learning Experience Design Specialist
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience5 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldEducation / Teaching 
Identify and research problems affecting the learning experience of OoSY - 20 %
- Review performance metrics and evaluation data to spot blockers to impact
- Offer technical advice on product and learning experience strategy development
- Design and conduct user-research to get a deeper understanding of the pains, jobs to be done, skills requirements
- Shadow and observe implementation of the learning experience to generate new insights
Ideate and test learning experience solutions to improve OoSY product - 20%
- Conduct benchmarking research using secondary resources to identify best practices
- Design and support the implementation of rapid experiments
- Support development of user journey maps for the OoSY products
- Create LX strategy based on product strategy and insights from different data points
Develop curricula, training and assessment materials that support high quality delivery of the learning experience - 40%
- Create work plans to effectively execute all tasks
- Design high quality skills sessions and teaching and learning support materials that are appropriate for the OoSY target group and scale
- Conceptualize real world practical application activities for OoSY
- Develop mechanisms for youth to receive individualized feedback and support
- Incorporate feedback from peers, frontline teams, end-users and supervisors to continuously improve learning experience materials.
- Develop motivation/incentive strategies to drive learning and adaptation of new behaviors.
Prepare and develop training materials for trainers of trainers to ensure program implementation teams can effectively implement the learning experience - 20%
- Design and deliver high quality training of trainers of trainers to ensure the designers’ intent is clearly articulated for the implementing team.
- Collaborate with the program implementation team consistently to identify opportunities to ease learning experience delivery for frontline teams.
Who You Are:
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Education, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Social Science, Adult Education, or a related field. With at least five years of professional experience in learning experience design, instructional design, human-centered design, or training design, you’ve likely worked in design-centric organizations, including social enterprises or start-ups.
- You also have experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research within human-centered design processes, and you possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as a high level of computer literacy in tools like Google Docs and spreadsheets.
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to Educate! on job-boards.greenhouse.io to apply
