Position: Freelance Learning Manager
Location: South Africa
About LRN:
LRN is the world’s leading dedicated ethics and compliance SaaS company, helping more than 30 million people every year navigate complex regional and global regulatory environments and build ethical, responsible cultures. With over 3,000 clients across the US, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America—including some of the world’s most respected and successful brands—we’re proud to be the long-term partner trusted to reduce organizational risk and drive principled performance.
Named one of Inc Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies, LRN is redefining how organizations turn values into action. Our state-of-the-art platform combines intuitive design, mobile accessibility, robust analytics, and industry benchmarking—enabling organizations to create, manage, deliver, and audit ethics and compliance programs with confidence. Backed by a unique blend of technology, education, and expert advisement, LRN helps companies turn their values into real-world behaviors and leadership practices that deliver lasting competitive advantage.
About the role:
As our Freelance Learning Manager, you will be supporting our internal teams designing training solutions for our clients, who are represented by some of the largest brands in the world. You will meet with the client, either virtually or in person, visiting them at their offices to find out their business needs. You will attend a Design Workshop where you will deliver exciting ideas that will have the greatest impact on the learners. This could be a 20-minute e-learning course, an interactive workbook, a game, an animated sequence, an acted drama – or a combination of ALL these things. You will guide a team of Graphic Designers, Programmers, and Instructional Designers through the project to ensure that our training solution is creative, captivating, and modern and will create a measurable change in the organization.
Requirements
What you'll do:
- Leads Instructional Designers and subject matter experts across the content team to develop e-learning course content.
- Responsible for analysing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating online learning.
- Support solutions based on the client requirements using different digital media appropriate to their needs.
- Working with Instructional Designers on instructional, graphic and assessment design across multiple learning project workflows simultaneously, within stipulated standards, resources, and deadlines.
- Responsible for delivering innovative creative ideas which will help in design and implementation.
- Leads the team of Instructional Designers to ensure greater team coordination.
- Responsible for a strong versatile creative writing skills and guides the team to write for e-learning, animations, drama, and printed materials.
- Develop templates, organise, manage and repurpose course content files (audio, video, SCORM), schedule periodic course reviews, and track documentation and version control in order to manage content creation and the effective organisation of digital and digitised information.
- Responsible to run a creative meeting and keep it on-track.
- Responsible for multiple delivery methods (HTML5, Storyline, Articulate Rise, PDF, Word, PPT.)
What we're looking for:
- A minimum of 4 years' experience in Instructional Design
- BA (Bachelor of Arts) or equivalent experience
- Experience of Creative Writing
- Has strong views about how best to communicate information to a diverse audience.
- Has an eye for good visual design (you do not need Photoshop skills)
Benefits
- Competitive hourly fee rates
LRN is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
