Blended Learning Developer

‘Quick learner with experience in (e-)learning development to support scaling processes’.

Contract Duration: 4-5 months

Background

War Childs ambition is to reach more children through our evidence-based interventions and quality programmes. We hope to increase our reach by strengthening the capabilities of our implementing colleagues and local partner organisations.

Therefore we are aiming to develop a learning and development service, through which we can support our thematical specialists and teams in developing scalable, contextualized and accessible blended learning paths.

The learning paths are expected to be a clever blend of face-to-face training and more remote & e-learning modalities. These take into account accessibility in various contexts, and the potential to reach large audiences.

The learning service will include a user-design learning development process, based on all the tools and modules we have already developed, as part of this the learning manager will be supported in our self-assessment to become a certified learning provider through HPass (Humanitarian Passport Initiative).

Your Challenge

The Blended Learning Developer will coordinate the design of the learning development ‘service’ to support our programme portfolio, and in particular the evidence-based interventions. The service will include:

1. An interactive manual that explains our learning development process step by step, linking to our existing tools, templates and micro modules on (e-)learning design. This includes learner profiles, storyboards, our learning development quality assurance tool and guidance in development of e-learning.
2. A proposal for setting up ‘communities of practice’ so that we are able to benefit from internal and external capacity that has been built up amongst local partners and implementing colleagues.
3. Support process whereby War Child becomes a certified learning provider through HPass, by coordinating a self-assessment activity on the kinds of learning development resources we have available.
4. Support thematical colleagues in the development of several prioritized blended learning paths. One of these learning paths is expected to support the implementation of our We-Act tool, which is one of our evidence-based methods.

Our War Child Learning World is run on the Kaya platform, which is hosted by the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.

The Blended Learning Developer is part of the Programme Quality Team and reports to the Learning Manager (interim Programme Quality Manager). You will work closely with our technical advisers and R&D colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Collect and adapt existing templates, resources for different stages of the learning development process and bring them together in an interactive manual. You will develop this interactive manual in our learning platform/ e-learning authoring tool.
• Provide blended learning support to colleagues who are developing learning paths (including support for learning development related to the We-Act tool)
• Develop a proposal for establishing communities of practice as part of our learning offer, to support learning from peers.
• Coordinate a self-assessment activity for the War Child Learning World to become a certified learning provider through HPass/Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
• Support the learning world helpdesk in responding to helpdesk queries.

Your Profile

• Education level; MA/Education or educational technology, pedagogy, social science or other relevant study
• At least 3 years experience developing (or supporting the development of) e-learning or blended learning
• Strong didactical/blended learning design skills, user design/learner centred, a strong facilitator/trainer
• Motivated to work for an international organization and in a multi-cultural setting
• Experience using e-learning authoring tools and/or learning management systems. (We work with a Totara based learning platform and the e-learning authoring tool we use is called Evolve)
• Fluent in English, written and spoken. French/Spanish/Arabic are a plus
• Great communicator who is enthusiastic in sharing lessons learnt
• Very eager to learn!
• Full support for War Child’s mandate and mission.

Our Offer

Depending on the duty station, local contract with salary and secondary labour conditions based on the country’s salary scale and T&C’s will apply.

Anticipated duration of the contract is 4 – 5 months and for 32 – 40 hours per week.

A consultancy contract would also be considered.

Location

Any country where War Child Holland has an office base. The successful candidate needs to be eligible to work in that country. Preference will be given to local candidates.

The Organisation

War Child is a dynamic organization. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused, and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child Holland offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.