Senior Manager at Wadhwani Foundation
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Wadhwani Foundation - Lead - Content Development & Instructional Designer (10-15 yrs)
Lead - Content Development & Instructional Designer
About Venture Fastrack :
- At Wadhwani Venture Fastrack, we empower entrepreneurs in emerging economies with the knowledge, expertise, and networks to build high-performance startups that create jobs.
- VFT is developing an AI-powered personalized platform for on-demand access to knowledge resources, DIY-tools and mentor/expert/customer connects. Our services include building capacity of Incubators & Accelerator teams (and their startups) to independently use the VFT Platform. This provides a multiplier effect for successful startup outcomes.
- Additionally, VFT works directly with a small number of early & growth-stage startups to help them launch, stabilize and scale. Currently, we are working with over 50 incubators, and supporting over 100 startups in India.
Read more here: https://vft.wfglobal.org/
Overview of Responsibilities & Objectives :
- Venture Fasttrack is looking for a content designer who can create engaging learning content, toolkits and experiences for incubators and entrepreneurs that we support. To do that, we need a content designer with an entrepreneurial spirit who understands digital learning, technology and education.
- The content designer is expected to create and design online content as well as co-strategize content design and development as we take our capacity building programs to the global ecosystem. .
SKILLS Required :
- Learning Design : Be familiar with content design, structure, timing, pedagogical strategies and sequence of learning activities. Specifically but not limited to, must have the following skills:
- Understanding of principles of Instruction Design
- Ability to create content that is engaging, experiential and learner centric
- Be able to conceptualize a broad spectrum of ideas and then narrow them based on experimentation and customer research
- Be able to solicit feedback and contribute constructively to design reviews
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other members of the content and product team
- Ability to evolve the content framework and patterns as per standard brand protocols
- Familiarity with assessment methodologies and frameworks
- Learning Technology : Be proficient in usage of Learning Management Systems, e-learning authoring tools and multimedia production
- Tools like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, Elucidat, Camtasia
- Experience in at least one LMS
- Knowledge of creating interactive toolkits and e-books will give you an edge
- Experience in handling video-based online content is preferred.
- Visual Design
- Have a design sensibility in new and emerging areas of digital media learning. Adept with design skills and ability to work with software such as illustrator, Photoshop, Canva etc.
- Be able to Transform complex texts into conversational, approachable language/infographics.
- Create interactive playbooks, worksheets, workbooks, templates focused on entrepreneurship education.
- Craft user interface text, conversational UI scripts, product messaging for end users who are primarily incubator managers and startup entrepreneurs
Overall responsibilities :
- Plan and implement content development for incubator and entrepreneur capacity development
- Work as part of a content team to execute content strategy for multiple learning platforms across a continuum of entrepreneurial training curriculum,
- Apply industry best practices in developing online learning content and toolkits to improve incubator and entrepreneur learning outcomes
Ideal Candidate Profile :
- 10+ years of experience in learning design, content development, or related field
- Deep knowledge of design principles and methods
- Curiosity and commitment to testing new ideas and innovation
- Effective verbal and written English skills
- Willingness to work in a collaborative working environment
- Keen interest in entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem
- Venture FastTrack is part of Wadhwani Foundation whose vision is to transform millions of lives through high-value jobs. Family-supporting, high-value jobs are aspirational and all-empowering, overcoming health, hunger, education, and other developmental issues. It aspires to globally empower millions and thus transform the individual, their family, and generations to come.
- It has the objective of creating ~10M jobs and placing ~50M people, globally, by 2030. To realize this objective, Wadhwani Initiatives aim to establish interim run-rate goals of creating one million jobs and placement of five million people, annually, in the next 4-5 years.
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