Title: Head of Learning Design
Location: UK Remote Only
Role: Permanent
About Avado
Here at Avado, we believe in unlocking potential and changing lives. We are a professional academy that helps people and companies transform and grow through interactive learning experiences in data, finance, people, technology and marketing. Our connected learning approach combines deep expertise, collaborative learning, scalable technology and award-winning learning design to deliver learner experiences for people who want real change.
Who we need:
The Head of Learning Design role is pivotal to the future success of Avado and will influence and shape learning content across all Avado products.
The Head of Learning Design will contribute creative thinking, with strong experience of content development and the ability to work at a strategic level, demonstrating commercial understanding and a passion for creating outstanding learning experiences. Leading teams of learning design and editorial experts, the Head of Learning Design is instrumental in ensuring Avado continues to lead the way in the EDTech space through design and delivery of industry-leading learning design, with enthusiasm and an awareness of advances and key issues in the industry.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of content and editorial specialists to design and develop outstanding learning experiences for Avado, with responsibility for delivering quality, scheduling, and communication of risks and issues to relevant stakeholders
- Provide consultancy services to internal and external stakeholders, taking ownership for the development of Content-led strategy planning.
- Lead in shaping the Learning Design team’s offering aligned to team strategy, growing and expanding the range of innovative solutions we can offer to learners and clients and contributing to business case development where required
- Teams to efficiently deliver against project timelines
- Regularly review stakeholder feedback, identifying areas for innovation that improve the user experience, developing proposals with other stakeholders as part of the wider Avado strategy
- Keep up-to-date with technology and platform developments to seek and identify possible improvements to the learning experience of Avado clients
- Build and maintain close working relationships with colleagues from key functions across the business (including Product Owners, Learning Technology, Lightbox Studio and Project Management)
- Design and deliver staff training initiatives to raise awareness internally of the output from the Content team
- Implement a development plan for the Content team to ensure skills are relevant and up to date
What you'll bring
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A great leader. You will have significant experience (10+ years) managing people within a content function, and be able to evidence how you can help your reports develop and achieve
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Process driven. With extensive experience of creating and implementing robust processes for the production of great digital and face-to-face learning programmes
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A content expert. You will have strong content-related background, with extensive knowledge of learning design principles and theory
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Able to create amazing solutions for clients. With significant experience in designing learning solutions that delight clients, and inspiring and guiding others to design solutions that will delight clients
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A master traffic-controller. You will have high levels of personal organisation and be able to organise resource across multiple projects in order to meet deadlines
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Expert in stakeholder management. Have significant experience of effectively managing stakeholders across different functions in a business
And… just for being here, we offer you a culture that’s created and nurtured by super smart people and underpinned by our Values. Our Values of Accountability, Ambition, Care, Empowerment and Transparency were created for our people, by our people; they guide our thinking, decisions and actions, creating a truly unique place to work. You will also get a chance to be at the forefront of digital transformation and professional growth, enviable workspaces, serious personal development opportunity and a few nice job-related and lifestyle perks.
What you’ll get:
Lots of benefits including:
- Holidays – 25 days (bank holidays on top & birthday paid day off)
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Great work life balance through flexi working/remote working
- Avado learning days
- Wellness and fitness (Mindfulness)
- A home in our growing, ambitious team, whose sharp focus is growing the future skills of the workplace
- The opportunity to truly own and be responsible for making great things happen, making a real difference and working with some of the world’s leading brands
- A fast and furious, exciting place to be with real challenge and a meaningful opportunity
And we’re highly inclusive….
Avado is one of those rare places where anyone from anywhere with any background or experience is free to come and do their very best work. We believe in the diversity of thought, as that’s what helps us help our customers and learners – whether investing in their own development, or having their employer invest for them. Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are critical to our success; come and see for yourself.