E-learning Instructional Specialist at Africa Nazarene University (ANU)

Job Purpose
Responsible for instructional design processes and providing support at all stages of content design, development, delivery, and evaluation of online courses, monitoring and ensuring quality. In addition, this role is also responsible for coordinating the development of learning materials that are facilitated through ANU online.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, executing, testing, and assessing instructional design projects and/or technologies
• Orient and train students to learn online
• Support faculty in all stages of instructional design processes – in content design, development, delivery, and evaluation of online courses.
• Support faculty on digital technologies relevant for interactive and engaging online experiences.
• Monitoring quality for online offering
• Ensure adherence to a design standard of an instructional design model that leverages current and emerging technologies, and sound pedagogical designs and strategies.
• Present and make recommendations regarding course design, technology, and instruction delivery options
• Review courses against educational standards and quality before publishing for student access
• Coordinate communication to faculty,students, or other users’ availability of, or changes to online and e-learning courses or materials, programs, services, or applications
• Support the development of new online courses
• Track and participate in workflow of the instructional design process. To ensure its success execution
• Advice and initiate internal and externalsupport providers on instructional design for a continuous
  and sustained faculty and student support.
• Engage in professional development and capacity building opportunities.

Academic and Professional Requirements:

• Master’s degree in instructional design, education technology, or other related field that is aligned with the tasks of this position will be an added advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree in Education or Education Technology or in a relevant field
• Demonstrated skills and certification on web technologies, HTML, CSS and JavaScript and eLearning authoring tools.
• Minimum of three (3) years relevant experience as instructional designer, e-learning designer or course developer in higher education coupled with; Experience in supporting faculty and staff in instruction design or content design, development, delivery, and assessment at higher education levels.

Personal attributes and competencies:

• Strong practical and technical abilities in a variety of online learning technologies including but not limited to devices, interactive learning software, learning management systems.
• Knowledge and skills of teaching and learning/ pedagogy
• Ability to troubleshoot problems, creative, and good in problem solving
• Demonstrate knowledge on generative AI technologies, web technologies, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and a good knowledge of eLearning authoring tools.
• Interpersonal skills: ability to work with the least supervision, communication skills
• Organizing and time management skills
• Team player: Demonstrate ability to work closely with students, faculty, and other staff
• Detail oriented
• Discretion and confidentiality
• Ability to work in a student and faculty environment that is diverse and inclusive in nature.