Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ALX Africa is a non-profit organization focused on unlocking Africa's digital potential through tech skills training and career acceleration programs. The Learning Experience Designer will lead the creation of high-impact enterprise learning solutions and collaborate with various stakeholders to translate business needs into engaging learning experiences.
Responsibilities
- Translate client needs, role requirements, and business goals into clear learning strategies and program architectures
- Shape enterprise learning interventions across multiple formats, including workshops, blended journeys, short online programs, intensives, and longer cohort-based programs
- Determine when to adapt existing ALX programs and when to build new corporate learning experiences from the ground up
- Build clear learning outcomes, session flows, module structures, facilitator guides, learner materials, assignments, case studies, job aids, and capstone or project-based activities
- Design for multiple modalities, including live virtual, self-paced, cohort-based, hybrid, and in-person workshop environments
- Ensure learning experiences are practical, engaging, appropriately rigorous, and relevant to working professionals and enterprise teams
- Create modular content and reusable design assets that support scalability, quality, and efficient customization
- Design assessments, rubrics, simulations, applied tasks, and project-based evaluation approaches that validate real capability, not just recall
- Build mechanisms for skills measurement, feedback, and continuous improvement across the learner journey
- Incorporate diagnostics, self-assessments, manager sign-off, or role-based evidence where appropriate
- Design for behaviour change and transfer to work through reinforcement, nudges, reflection, peer learning, and practical action planning
- Help define how learning outcomes and business outcomes will be tracked and evidenced over time
- Partner closely with subject matter experts to convert deep expertise into accessible, structured, high-value learning
- Collaborate with facilitators, program managers, operations, product, and commercial teams to ensure design feasibility and delivery readiness
- Engage confidently with senior internal stakeholders and, where needed, client stakeholders during discovery, design, review, and refinement
- Apply strong learning design standards, templates, and quality assurance processes across all corporate offerings
- Use learner feedback, stakeholder input, performance data, and delivery insights to improve learning experiences iteratively
- Review existing ALX offerings and identify where they can be adapted for stronger corporate fit
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the corporate training design playbook, templates, reusable assets, and design systems
- Maintain strong version control, documentation, and organisation of learning assets for reuse and scale
- Use appropriate instructional design, authoring, collaboration, and AI-enabled tools to improve design quality and speed
- Explore new methods, technologies, and media formats that improve learner engagement, accessibility, and measurable impact
- Support clean handoff into LMS or platform deployment, working with the relevant teams to ensure readiness and quality
- Bring disciplined project management to design work, balancing creativity with structure, timelines, dependencies, and execution rigor
Skills
- Proven experience in instructional design, curriculum development, or related fields
- Strong experience designing for adult professionals in corporate, executive, higher education, or workforce development contexts
- Demonstrated experience building learning across online, live virtual, in-person, and blended formats
- Experience working with subject matter experts to shape content in complex domains
- Strong command of instructional design models, adult learning principles, and learning transfer practices
- Ability to move from ambiguous brief to clear, practical, high-quality learning
- Strong workshop and experiential learning design capability
- Ability to design assessments, rubrics, and application mechanisms that validate skill acquisition and on-the-job use
- Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to make complex ideas clear, concise, and usable
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across commercial, academic, technical, and operational teams
- High attention to detail, strong judgment, and an excellent sense of learner usability and relevance
- Proficiency with modern design, collaboration, and learning tools; comfort experimenting with AI-assisted workflows is an advantage
- Deep belief that learning should lead to practical capability, behaviour change, and measurable value
- Commercially aware and outcome-oriented, with the judgment to balance quality, speed, customization, and scale
- Curious, thoughtful, and intellectually versatile across technical, behavioural, and leadership-oriented subject matter
- Structured and execution-focused, with the ability to manage complexity without losing clarity
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping strong solutions from incomplete inputs
- Open to feedback, iteration, and continuous refinement in a fast-moving environment
- Energised by building, improving, and taking ownership in a growth-stage corporate training function
- Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges
- Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others
- Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey
- Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond
- Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger
- Experience in one or more relevant domains such as AI, data, analytics, leadership, management, organisational effectiveness, culture, or change is strongly preferred
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