Consultancy for Instructional Designer: Virtual Learning Academy Courses at African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC)

Scope of Work

• Apply globally recognized instructional design principles to translate and digitize the eight courses to Portuguese ensuring that the designed courses meet the learning objectives and course outcomes.
• Design effective and interactive assessment strategies that will help demonstrate the required learner competencies.
• Provide hands-on support to content authors to ensure that any challenges that they arise in the development of the materials are addressed.
• Develop a quality assurance checklist that will be used to ensure that the translated courses meet internationally recognized course design principles and guidelines.
• Using wireframes and other design tools, demonstrate the key features of each model course for approval by APHRC before digital course content development.
• Content authoring using tools including Canva, Synthesia, Voice AI (Text to Speech translation), Articulate 360, SCORMs and other AI tools.
• Working with the subject area experts, interactively digitize the courses developed, ensuring they meet the required quality standards. Toward this, the consultant should incorporate weekly review meetings and peer-review as part of quality assurance.
• Publish all the developed course materials in both VLA Soma’s web-and mobile-based platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology or other related fields.
• Proven working experience with the development of Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) and WordPress.
• Demonstrated understanding of instructional design principles and experience in designing or digitizing e-learning courses.
• Experience with using Databases in Learning Management Systems including MySQL and PHP scripting languages.
• Strong ability to design interactive assessments and learning activities that measure learner competencies effectively.
• Experience in using wireframes and other design tools in content development before digitizing.
• Demonstrated experience in eLearning Content authoring using tools including Synthesia, Voice AI (Text to Speech translation), Articulate 360, SCORMs and other AI tools.
• Experience in integrating AI and ChatGPT on the Moodle platform.
• Good knowledge and use of new and evolving technologies and digital platforms.
• Ability to work with a team methodically, meet deadlines, and incorporate changes swiftly.
• Excellent project management and delivery skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English is essential.