Bi-lingual (Spanish-English) Instructional Designer/Course Designer
Status: Contractor, Remote
Reports to: Sr Director of Learning & Training
ABOUT TECHCHANGE
Founded in 2010, we are a social enterprise that works with leading nonprofits and government agencies worldwide to push the boundaries of what’s possible in virtual learning and online events. From delivering an online series of courses on COVID response for frontline health workers to powering the world's largest human rights and tech conference (RightsCon), TechChange contributes to some of the most innovative and important conversations of our era. TechChange provides human-powered services like facilitation, production, support, and design and a user-centric platform to support over 500K users across some 800 courses, workshops, and events.
ROLE OVERVIEW
TechChange is working with Freedom House, a non-profit organization focused on political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights, on a project to design and create a series of trainings in Spanish for human rights defenders and civil society organizations from across the Latin America and Caribbean region. We are looking for a bilingual (English and Spanish) contract instructional designer/learning strategist to work with the TechChange Learning & Training team to support the first phase of this project: course design. The instructional design contractor will provide bilingual, LATAM-based instructional design support, and serve as a lead liaison working with Freedom House SMEs to create the content in Spanish first, with TechChange project leads staff overseeing and guiding the process.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support with developing survey(s) for potential training participants to gather end-user motivations, challenges, and desires for training.
- Plan, co-design and co-faciltate two ideation workshops to define the learner personas, key goals and objectives, KSAs and topics for the course. One workshop will be facilitated by contractor in Spanish.
- Co-develop findings report for customer in English, detailing recommendations for the course structure, virtual strategy, and key topics.
- Review source content (presentations, guidebooks, reference materials, etc.) to be included or considered in the course.
- Participate in internal project team (non-customer) design/planning sessions, incorporating outputs from the ideation phase, to develop proposed activity, assessment, and technology recommendations for the training
- Co-develop an initial course outline and/or agenda for the Digital Security Course.
- Participate in project management team meetings (likely weekly but could be more or less frequent depending on the needs of the project)
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in education or instructional design or equivalent job experience
- 3+ years of experience in education, training, instructional design, curriculum development for adult/professional audiences and/or other relevant experience
- A strong understanding of online learning and pedagogical principles and techniques and/or experience developing training for online/hybrid environment
- Human-centered design (HCD)/design-thinking experience valued
- Strong project management and organization skills
- Experience with International Development, Global Health, Government, NGOs not required, but a plus
- Experience with virtual facilitation tools, not required but a plus: Miro, Slido or Mentimeter, Zoom (or similar video conferencing tools)
- Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
COMPENSATION
Compensation: $35/hour USD
Estimated Level of Effort: 15 Days/120 Hours over 3-4 months.
Potential for extension to course development in 2025.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Open until filled.
REMOTE/TIME ZONE CONSIDERATIONS
Remote (distributed, work-from-home structure); flexible East Coast hours while serving global clients.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The position will require extensive time sitting or standing and viewing computer screens from a home setup. The following capabilities may be required to perform this position's essential functions. Reasonable accommodations can be made available to address the following requirements.
- May occasionally lift, carry, stoop, bend, etc. (no more than 20 pounds).
- Ability to travel in the US and internationally (less than 10% time, when appropriate)
EOE STATEMENT
TechChange is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We know that our differences make us better. TechChange does not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
What We Do
TechChange offers an innovative technology platform and a world-class supporting team to meet the training and convening needs of organizations in the digital age. With over ten years of experience and a community of 500,000+ users, our model is reliable, cost-effective, and one-of-a-kind.
We are an all-in-one digital training and events firm. We help you build and deliver a beautiful and engaging virtual experience for your audience, wherever they are in the world. We have an amazing platform that represents over a decade of user feedback and iteration. It’s the bedrock of our model. Then we bring facilitators, designers, animators, videographers, programmers together with the platform to build an incredible course, workshop, event, or summit.
Most of our partners work in the social sector but we’ve worked with over 300 organizations in the last 10 years. So get in touch today if you want to take your online experience to the next level.
