Head of Learning

13 hours ago


Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Alef Education Full time

Head of Learning

**Job Details**

**Department**

Educational and Content

**Reporting Manager**

Director, Education & Content

**Job Location**

HQ, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

**Job Purpose**

Responsible for owning and implementing the Alef Education learning model, directing continuous improvement, innovation and delivery of content that reflects our learning theory, instructional design, assessment, and accessibility goals.

**Key Responsibilities**

**_
Digital Learning & Vision Strategy _**

Design and implement the learning model of Alef Education, facilitating ongoing communication and collaboration with the Product and Service Delivery division to enable cohesive implementation between the platform and the content within it.

**_ Measure Learning Outcomes _**

Enable research based instructional design and assessment strategies to steer improved instruction and reliably measure student learning outcomes.

**_ Content Production & Design _**

Lead digital production strategies that deliver cohesive and immersive instructional and graphic design to engage students and enhance their ability to achieve targeted learning outcomes.

**_Operational Effectiveness _**

Lead and enable high performing, collaborative education specialty teams known for their creative and agile delivery of objectives and key results within time and cost constraints

**Education, Experience and Required Skills**

**Educational Qualification**
- Bachelor degree in a relevant education field
- Master degree in pedagogy or relevant field strong advantage

**Experience**
- 10-12 years in a digital K12 education environment
- 5 years team leadership experience required
- 2 years digital education publishing experience required
- Generalist understanding of how instructional design, assessment, animation and graphics and interactive functionality contributes to a quality learning experience.
- 2-3 years leadership experience in schools an advantage
- Sound knowledge and experience of the grade 5-12 classroom and its digital learning possibilities.
- Demonstrates a clear vision for the digital future of secondary education.
- Previous experience negotiating contracts and coordinating work with contractors
- Strong Business & Financial Acumen; specifically budget and cost management (USD 10M);
- Experience developing and managing scalable systems and processes; governance and business growth and management processes
- Matrix style management experience an advantage
- Ability to manage cross-functional teams with multiple functional reporting structures;
- Excellent ability to facilitate and influence decision making and cyclical information flow
- Arabic/Middle East experience strongly desired to enable effective student engagement across Middle East markets

**Essential Skills**
- Problem solving; ability to drive toward project completion, overcoming obstacles, bottlenecks and other risks as required
- Relationship Builder; ability to quickly establish credibility, influence and trust with other team members in order to better drive results
- Creative Design; ability to see the big picture of the design process and influence continuous creativity details without losing focus on schedule and process efficiencies
- Deadline oriented; ability to articulate priorities and revise plans to meet tight deadlines
- Project Management Tools Expert; familiar with various project management practices and tools (kanban, scrum, etc) with proven ability to implement and customize to the needs of team and/or project


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