Description
Curriculum Designer
Application Deadline: 24 February 2025
Department: Business Support
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Home United Kingdom
Description
Working closely with the Curriculum Director, and Learning Experience team you will have accountability for ensuring the timely development, maintenance and performance of Davies Apprenticeship/Skills Bootcamp and Commercial products including; High Impact Training courses, Digital Study Solutions and CPD courses
This includes supporting Product Managers and Associates with writing, evolving and tailoring the curriculum scheme of work and course blueprints, along with the development of delivery models and learning pathways and creating or supporting the creation of engaging digitally enabled, learning resources. You will work closely with the Curriculum Director, Learning Experience Manger and any other internal and external stakeholders to ensure that our apprenticeship, bootcamp and commercial product portfolio supports our approach of developing knowledge, skills and behaviours into fulfilling future careers and that our apprenticeship products meet the requirements outlined by the Department of Education in providing suitable evidence for Off-The-Job learning and supporting our clients with driving learning On-The-Job.
You will be accountable for the timely development, delivery and launch of products within your business area’s caseloads and managing Product Managers and external associates to ensure that all segments of products are at a high standard. You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to maximise product performance and resolve any performance concerns identified as early as possible.
Davies Learning Solutions is widely regarded in the Insurance and Financial Services industry for working with clients to bespoke our apprenticeship programmes to incorporate their resources, align durations to the graduate schemes and creating and evolving client and learner facing resources and documentation and building engaging and digitally led learning pathways on our Learning Experience Platform and ePortfolio platform.
Working Hours - Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm (flexible hours will be considered)
Key Responsibilities
- Design & development of products across our product portfolio of apprenticeships, Skills Bootcamps, HIT courses (6-16 week training courses including digital and face to face content), Study Solutions (digital Professional Qualification revision packs) and CPD courses
- Maintaining and improving our product portfolio, through analysis of competitor activity & government / regulator policy changes at applicable points in a product’s lifecycle
- Taking ownership of your product caseload, tracking and monitoring their performance and lifecycle stage.
- You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to maximise product performance and resolve any performance concerns identified as early as possible.
- Undertake regular assessments of your caseload products against the product checklist to ensure everything connected to the product, such as IfATE Standard changes, collateral, website, learning assets remain fully up to date.
- Manage and update the asset register for your caseload of products as requiredWorking with other Product Managers and the wider business to support the achievement of deadlines
- Working with the Instructional design Apprentice/learning designer to storyboard eLearning content
- Being an active member of apprenticeship trailblazer groups for all of your caseload products, and work with other relevant external key stakeholders/partners to ensure our products continue to be market leader.
- Creation of client product facing documents, marketing collateral and website content in line with Davies Group brand guidelines
- Creation of learning and development content utilising Canva, Adobe, Foxit and wrap around collateral such as digital pathway builds, digitising mock exams and writing quizzes across products when necessary
- Sharing best practice with others through standardisation meetings
- Building engaging and digitally led learning pathways on our Learning Experience Platform and ePortfolio platform
- Promotion of our product portfolio through social media posts and campaigns
- Working with Subject Matter Experts to be able to provide guidance on the creation of learning content
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of the retail banking and the insurance sector training & development needs including ICA, CBI, PMI, LIBF, CIS, CILA and CII qualifications
- Qualified to at least CertCII level, completed an apprenticeship in an Insurance or Financial services role or have a qualification that evidences experience within education or further education
- L&D professional with experience in designing, writing & developing training programmes and content
Desirable
- Experience of product management
- Experience in market research & competitor analysis
- Experience in creating client facing documentation & marketing collateral
- Experience in creating engaging and digitally led learning and development resources
- Experience in using Learning Authoring tools such as Articulate
- Experience of building pathways on Learning Management Systems and ePortfolio’s, such as Aptem
- Experience in creating blended learning programmes
- Knowledge of Apprenticeship sector & funding / regulatory rules
- Knowledge of the Education Inspection Framework (EIF)
- Management of awarding / professional body relationships
- Experience of writing and acting upon Sector and programme level Self-Assessment Reports and Impact Reports
Job Benefits
Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof).
Join us and enjoy our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:
Join us and enjoy our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:
- Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
- 25 days holiday (rising with service)
- Well-being centre
- Recognition programme
- Paid fertility appointments
- Fostering friendly employer
- Pension - matched contribution at 5%
- Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
- Development, training, and professional qualification
