GLF Learning Instructional Designer

Overview

The GLF Landscape Academy is the go-to place for learning about landscapes dedicated to accelerating the uptake of sustainable, inclusive and integrated landscape approaches. The Landscape Academy houses 30+ courses on landscape-related topics including a certificate program of five Massive and Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Its newly developed Digital Campus represents a dedicated learning management system with abilities for offline, online and blended courses, social learning, community engagement, collaborative course design and content management on landscape related topics. The main objective of the GLF instructional designer is to collaboratively lead the instructional design and delivery of learning courses and products.

Duties and responsibilities

Lead the instructional design and delivery of offline, online and/or blended learning courses: Conduct learning needs and competencies assessments and surveys Lead collaborative processes with project partners for developing course outlines and content, facilitating peer review processes, and building content on the digital campus’ learning management system;  
Facilitate online sessions for courses, wherever needed;  
Regularly audit and update course content on the digital campus.
Lead the instructional design and deliver of learning products:  
Lead collaborative processes with project partners for developing learning products, facilitating peer review processes, design, and communications, uploading to the website and digital campus.
Work with the GLF learning team to further develop the Landscape Academy and advice on the best ways to host online and blended courses on its Digital Campus. 

Education, knowledge and experience

The ideal candidate would have 3+ years of experience in instructional design, or an undergraduate degree in instructional design, pedagogy or a related field
Excellent understanding of principles of pedagogy for sustainable development and adult education, and having experience with online learning design and learning management systems
Fluent in English. French or Spanish speaker is desirable;
Understanding of WordPress CMS and data management systems

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worldagroforestry.org