Elearning content creator, instructional designer; Remote

e-learning content creator, instructional designer - Volunteer

About us

Guided by our vision, mission, and values, we promote equality and diversity, regardless of gender, lifestyle, background, age, or religion. Our curriculum promotes social and environmental responsibility, human rights, and equality.

Through education and knowledge application in STEM subjects, business studies, entrepreneurship, health and life skills, English and foreign languages, we address the root cause of poverty. Our methodology and learning contents are based on the Swiss dual education system, international and national curricula.

While our students study online at their own pace and in peer groups, we provide the methodology and coaching training to our local partners to coach them in problem solving and improving their learning methods to score well in their semester assignments.

Besides preparing students for national exams, we are working on establishing a globally recognized online examination board.

Besides academic courses, we provide vocational training with a strong focus on ICT through our own entrepreneurship projects and seek partnerships with local and international companies and organizations. While we offer education for free, our students are expected to volunteer and help develop their community as well as our organisation.

We are looking for professional educators and instructional designers to create engaging learning content for our academic, vocational and staff training courses.

As a volunteer of empowermefirst you are expected to commit to consistency, proactive communications and a minimum of three hours per week of volunteering for at least six months.

Your responsibilities

• You will collaborate closely with educational planning and other team members to develop unit plans and engaging lessons based on a curriculum which follows international and national standards such as IGCSE, A/AS-Level and IBO.

• You will plan and develop original content for courses, such as written lessons, video lectures.

• You will design and draft original materials to assess student progression from easy to mastery, especially quizzes, assignments.

• You will review developed material from other team members to ensure consistency and quality.

Who you are

• You are self-motivated, share our vision of equal access to education and enjoy doing projects for the challenge, not for external rewards. You understand the value of volunteering and making an impact, keep to deadlines and are ready to attend online meetings.

• You have a relevant degree, MA or PhD or practical experience in one or our subjects or as instructional designer. Preferably you have experience in creating engaging elearning courses and, or teaching.

• You are passionate about education:
  You know the importance of education and how it can impact someone's life.

• You are an excellent communicator in verbal and written English: you know how to captivate, relate and adapt to your audience. You are comfortable explaining complex concepts to a non-knowledgeable audience.

• You are comfortable using Google Suite (Google docs, Google slides, and Google sheets) and willing to learn how to use our online platform.

• You are able to work independently, but you are also comfortable asking questions and saying, “I don’t know.”

• You are a team player:
  You know how to communicate effectively about your progress and understand that we need the help of everyone to succeed.

Culture fit

Our values represent who we are and how we act. You will enjoy working with us if the following statements describe you:

• You value others and have the desire to have a positive impact on the world.

• You know that you don’t know everything and are willing to learn, experiment, and view feedback as an opportunity to improve yourself.

• You are committed, consistent and don’t give up when things become more challenging.

• You don’t take shortcuts. You have high integrity and aspire to do things the right way.

• You are proactive and ready to work in a flat hierarchical structure.

• You reach out when you face challenges

• You strive for excellence and have high attention to detail.

The process

Did you recognise yourself in our description?…