Job Opening at African Management Initiative

Job description

AMI is looking to expand its learning team, and is looking for a Learning Designer to play three critical roles at AMI:

• Learning design – programmes, content, technology (50%)
• Business development support (30%)
• Facilitator recruitment, coaching, & management (20%)

The Learning Designer will be based at AMI’s head office in Nairobi, but will be working with teams across Africa. S/he should have extensive experience in adult learning and workplace learning (including learning design, online learning, and experiential facilitation) and a solid understanding of how business works and what businesses need in terms of learning solutions.

About the Job

The Learning Designer must be a driven, organized, tech-savvy professional with experience designing learning solutions for business. S/he should be comfortable with online and blended-learning solutions, and able to work with multiple stakeholders (AMI’s programme managers, content managers, sales team, facilitators and clients) to ensure a seamless, integrated learning experience is delivered to clients.

The successful candidate will play several key roles at AMI:

• Learning design – programmes, content, technology (50%) - work with the Chief Learning Officer and Chief Product Officer to develop and improve AMI’s blended learning strategy and processes for scalability; design programmes that leverage AMI’s world-class methodology, content and online platform to meet the individual needs of business clients; customise materials - including courses, resources, case studies and activities - as appropriate for key business clients; convene cross-functional project teams (consisting of platform, content and programme management people) to ensure learning solutions are fully blended and integrated; oversee impact measurement and analysis of programmes
• Business development support (30%) - support business development teams across geographies (particularly in East Africa) in understanding client needs and scoping new programmes; attending key sales meetings and events; conduct TNAs (training needs analysis) & creating high-level learning designs for client proposals
• Facilitator recruitment, coaching, & management (20%) - provide learning and facilitation guidance/expertise to AMI facilitators; identify, select and train new facilitators; provide ongoing support and assessment for existing facilitators; create facilitator training manuals and supporting documents as AMI scales its blended learning offering; provide overall management and oversight of AMI facilitators in East Africa