Senior Learning Architect

Job Title: Senior Learning Architect

Salary: 80.000 - 100.000 (annually incl. 8% holiday allowance)

Job Type: Permanent (Full-Time )

Location: IB (International Baccalaureate®) Global Centre, The Hague

About the job

This role will report to the Sr Learning Architect Lead and work with a cross-functional team of subject matter experts, researchers, IB business leaders, and IB PL design thought leaders to design and develop an educator learning ecosystem to include formal and informal professional learning opportunities, creating a continuous learning journey for educators. This role involves the iterative development of an educator capabilities framework that will be the basis for the IB PD recognition system of micro credentials. This role also leads the  broader architecture of professional learning for a given market portfolio which leads to teachers earning professional micro credentials to support growth in their practice and as professionals. Working closely with the Senior Content Operations Manager, this role will ensure that all content curated and produced for their market is in line with the overall content strategy and desired impact of the channel on educator professional learning

The learning architect will be accountable for the learning experience design and adult learning within thea specific market (e.g., Non-IB/Consultancy, Adult Competencies, Onboarding, IBWS). As the design and learning sciences expert within the PL Design team the Senior Learning Architect will lead the product design in the rollout of IB’s next-generation professional learning model.

• Establish the portfolio of designs for their market portfolio, deciding on the target and scope of 
  coverage from internal, outsourced, and partner content, setting the direction for production 
  content workstreams
• Leverage the instructional design principles and specifications for both the formal and informal 
  learning in alignment with the IB philosophy and approach to adult learning as applied across 
  all IB programmes and non-affiliated audiences
• Design a recognition system (i.e., micro credentials) of outstanding teaching practice aligned to 
  IB’s Teacher Capabilities Framework, which together will be the recognition for all future formal 
  and informal IB PD
• Design the scope, user interface, and methodology for aligning learning outcomes learning 
  experiences to the Capabilities Framework. 
• Design and scope sets of learning experiences and journeys which align to micro-credentials
  and ensure their smooth and timely handover to the production team
• Ensure the design of the learning modules generate a portfolio of evidence of their professional 
  learning so teachers have access to portfolio reviews to earn credentials
• Establish and maintain clear content design requirements responding to feedback from 
  instructional designers and educators based on data analytics from the platform
• Lead the alignment IB’s formal professional development offerings, including online and in person workshops, and other certification stakeholders to the Teacher Capabilities Framework 
  and recognition framework for market portfolio
• Contribute to the design and development of teacher self-assessment instruments to
  guide teacher engagement with content and propose learning modules for educators
• Establish a process to create educator personas based on user data and IB educator persona 
  information to guide content development and optimization
• Lead the design of packages of content, premium content, facilitated premium content, and 
  coaching products 
• Liaison with Research and Learning & Teaching teams as PD lead in all design and academic 
  work associated with all programme implementation
• Design the training required for IB Educators to be awarded micro-credential for pre-requisites to IBEN roles. 
• As a thought leader ensure micro-credentials' value is recognized internally and externally, working with internal stakeholders across the organization to develop awareness and recognition of micro credentials as a currency of educator professional learning 
• Establish the learning outcomes and parameters for all learning aligned to micro-credentials in an open badging framework
• Lead the ongoing expansion of the Teacher Capabilities Framework and micro credentials, including the construction of survey instruments to capture school, educator and internal stakeholder input
• Partner with leaders from IB’s Learning & Teaching and Professional Development teams to reconcile Digital Channel micro credentials with the certificates teachers earn through formal workshops and other forms of professional learning. 
• Establish policies for the issuance and renewal of micro credentials, and work with IB’s World Schools and Marketing divisions to promote modular learning and micro-credentials with schools.

About you:

• Extensive years of experience in a learning architect or senior L&D or instructional design role
• Master’s degree or equivalent work experience or higher; PhD preferred • Demonstrated expertise in learning design, adult learning, teacher learning and knowledge structures 
• Demonstrated expertise in design of teacher professional learning systems that deliver the intended outcomes with results demonstrated through efficacy research 
• Previous experience developing certification pathways or micro-credentialing system and designing the learning that aligns to the micro-credentialing system 
• Previous experience in program assessment and evaluation, professional growth models, or train the trainer systems for professional learning and credentialing 
• Demonstrated experience leveraging expertise in teacher learning and knowledge with learning design and market input to develop a content strategy 
• Previous experience developing job-skills frameworks or competency-based learning models using data-driven (bottom up) as well as expert driven (top down) processes 
• A proven track record developing self-paced learning experience for an adult audience using scalable, efficient processes 
• Previous experience setting requirements, evaluating audience characteristics, and content and learning constraints when designing learning experiences

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including

• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to 5 days additional
• Flex benefit allowance of 2.5% of salary
• Bicycle scheme
• IB Pension
• Life insurance 2x annual salary net
• Travel and work from home allowance
• Health insurance allowance
• Disability insurance
• Excellent continuous professional development