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Senior Learning Designer - Ireland based

£45K-£50K Basic Salary
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  • Ref: 3813
  • Permanent
  • Overseas

Our client, a prominent organisation dedicated to delivering innovative and impactful solutions, is seeking a Senior Learning Designer to join their team. This pivotal role involves leading the design and delivery of creative digital learning solutions. You will collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to define project scope, develop specifications, uphold quality standards, and oversee deliverables. Additionally, this role includes mentoring team members, driving innovation, and fostering a culture of excellence.

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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to design and deliver creative digital learning solutions aligned with project objectives.
  • Design comprehensive learning design models and strategies for strategic projects.
  • Define learning content scope and write comprehensive learning design specifications.
  • Oversee project deliverables, ensuring quality standards and timelines are met.
  • Act as a mentor and coach to Learning Design team members, providing guidance and support throughout development.
  • Contribute to team development through peer reviews, onboarding new team members, and sharing best practices.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement through proposals, tenders, and throuhh leadership activities such as publishing articles and hosting events

Skills

  • Attention to detail with exceptional written and communication skills.
  • Expertise in e-learning authoring tools e.g. Articulate Storyline and Evolve, and instructional design methodologies.
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.
  • Familiarity with learning platforms, including LMS/LXP, and knowledge of UX/UI principles.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and maintain high-quality output under tight deadlines.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and work collaboratively across teams.

Experience

  • 2 to 3 years experience in developing engaging learning content
  • Proven experience in leading a team within a learning development environment.
  • Track record of creating innovative, interactive digital learning solutions.

Education

  • A degree of equivalent in multimedia design, instructional design, or a related field is desirable
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Design and develop solutions

Create and manage content
3 – Advanced

(Co-)Creating relevant learning content using sound learning design principles, and ensuring content is aligned with needs analysis and learning solution design and assessment strategy. Editing content when required to maintain, accuracy and relevance.

Curation
2 – Proficient

Gathering, verifying, adding meaning to, organising and sharing information/resources to serve a defined learning- or performance-related purpose. Using digital tools and non-digital /manual techniques to achieve this.

Design and develop solutions
3 – Advanced

(Co-)Designing and developing learning experiences and solutions that include appropriate formal and informal learning solutions, resources and performance support, ensuring that business, performance and learner requirements are met.

Manage projects
3 – Advanced

Initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing the work of teams on L&D projects to achieve goals and meet success criteria.

Performance support
2 – Proficient

Ensuring resources are available for improving performance, tagging and placing them within the context of the workflow and need as an output of performance consulting, the information architecture and learning solution design.

Strategy and operations

Manage and improve L&D processes
2 – Proficient

Managing L&D business processes and their continuous improvement.

Support learning

Support coaching
3 – Advanced

Building a culture of coaching where coaching is available at all levels of the organisation. Developing the skills of, and providing support to, leaders and managers to coach individuals and groups.

Support mentoring
3 – Advanced

Structuring a programme of support and guidance to members of the organisation via mentoring. Supporting development and application of skills by others to help people build successful mentoring relationships.

Support work teams
2 – Proficient

Working with line and project managers to help a work team perform by working, collaborating and learning effectively together.

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Katie is our recruitment team leader, supporting and guiding the team to find exceptional L&D talent for brilliant L&D opportunities. She possesses six years’ experience in L&D recruitment – across all levels of roles and all types of organisations.

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