Content & Instructional Designer

Content & Instructional Designer

• Are you passionate about creating impactful and innovative educational content?
• Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• Free health and life insurance, generous leave provisions plus additional leave based on length of service, free car parking.
• Based in Te Awamutu 
• A whanau-friendly workplace with potential of flexible work options

About us

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWoA) is New Zealand’s second largest tertiary institution, and we’ve been providing transformational education opportunities to New Zealanders for nearly 40 years.  Our vision of ‘Whānau transformation through education’ drives our commitment to being at the forefront of tertiary education underpinned by Māori culture and values.

Ko ngā uara (our values) are woven throughout the actions we take to achieve great outcomes for our tauira (students) and kaimahi (employees):

• Te Aroha: Having regard for one another and those for whom we are responsible and to whom we are accountable.
• Te Whakapono: The basis of our beliefs and the confidence that what we are doing is right.
• Ngā Ture: The knowledge that our actions are morally and ethically right and that we are acting in an honourable manner.
• Kotahitanga: Unity amongst iwi and other ethnicities; standing as one.

About this role

The primary purpose of the Content & Instructional Designer is to design and draft purposeful and informed educational activities in preparation for the Digital & Instructional Designers to implement via learning management systems (LMS) and/or printed materials. This position requires the incumbents to work closely with subject matter experts, Kairuruku, Programme Developers, Programme Development Advisors and Digital & Instructional Designers. This role is a critical component of learning design therefore requires excellent listening, research and people skills to gather essential information that inform quality educational activities.

There is a great expectation in this role to ensure that Te Kaupapa Matua and Mātauranga Māori underpin all systems, processes, procedures and practices.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Lead and promote the development of content capability in instructional design to enhance learning and knowledge acquisition in the team
• Work closely with Programme Developers and Programme Development Advisors to deliver innovative, evidence-based, and scalable content solutions
• Complete amendments for existing programme learning & teaching resource change/s to enhance and support quality programme improvement
• Develop, curate, and manage content for the Digital & Instructional Designers
• Develop, interpret and execute briefs and reverse briefing sessions with creatives and multiple internal clients and be a key point of contact with management and clients
• Collaborate with production and creative teams including designers, sound and audio, production managers, contractors and kaimahi as required
• Produce and manage end-to-end content creation and deliver engaging and creative content on brief
• Engage in research and participate in project reviews to improve programme related policies, regulations, processes, procedures and guidelines
• Maintain current knowledge of teaching and learning resource development practices and associated tools for teaching and learning
• Establish and manage strategic and operational relationships with external stakeholders and kaimahi to support strategic partnerships
• Work closely with Programme Developers and Programme Development Advisors to inform reports to the Poururuku – Curriculum Development

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Education or relevant filed
• Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management
- NZQA 11551 and 11552 or equivalent skills and knowledge
• Diploma in Te Reo Māori
• Full NZ Drivers Licence (Class 1)

Experience:

• 2 years’ experience in a leadership role preferably in the tertiary education sector
• 4+ years’ experience in on-line learning and e-learning development
• 4+ years’ in learning & resource design and/or instructional design
• 4+ years’ experience in project management or equivalent
• 4+ years’ experience working with the NZQA Framework
• 2+ years programme development experience

Āhuatanga Māori:

• Engages in cultural activities and has a sound understanding of Āhuatanga Māori (values, culture and tikanga)
• Understands and uses basic Te Reo Māori phrases, mihi and greetings (TARM level 2 or equivalent qualification)
• Prepared to increase knowledge, understanding and everyday use of te reo and āhuatanga Māori and support other kaimahi in the same endeavour
• Actively applies Te Wānanga o Aotearoa values in the workplace

If this sounds like an opportunity you’d be interested in, and you have the experience we need - we'd love to hear from you.

Click “APPLY NOW” to submit your application online.  For additional enquiries, please email jobs@twoa.ac.nz

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