Consultant Instructional Designer East Africa

Position Title: Consultant Instructional Designer East Africa

Location: Eastern Africa based

Reports to: Senior Facilitator East Africa

Hours per week (average): As needed basis

Our Vision and Mission WomenLift Health envisions a world where diverse accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision we seek to expand the power and influence of talented midcareer women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in East Africa India North America Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach to other regions.

Our Work Established in 2019 we work to advance equality in health leadership through a range of actions at the individual institutional and societal levels. This includes Leadership Journeys which focus on equipping midcareer women with tools along with peer mentor and coach support to successfully use their voice expertise and leadership for impact. It includes pushing conversations and partnerships with senior leaders in health institutions taking steps to prioritize gender equality. It also includes supporting/ convening global conversations about the importance of womens leadership amplifying the voices of national and global health leaders including at the biannual WomenLift Health Conference.

Our Culture and Values We are building a diverse entrepreneurial team of people who bring unique cultural and technical perspectives and experiences. We welcome resultsoriented problemsolvers of any nationality race gender sexual orientation age and disability. We are a growing organization that is committed to building a culture that values:

• Collaborative leadership that celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences and ensures everyone contributes to their full potential.
• Partnership grounded in humility respect empathy and inclusion.
• Transformative change based upon bold strategic thinking combined with adaptability and pragmatic action.
• Spirit of learning that ensures we are open forwardlooking constructive and committed to growing collectively and individually.
• Achieving impact by improving global health and gender equality.

Position Summary Consultant Instructional Designer East Africa

WomenLift Health is seeking a Consultant Instructional Designer to work under the direction of the East Africa Senior Facilitator and in close collaboration with Leadership Development teammates. The Consultant Instructional Designer will be responsible for adapting and contextualizing predeveloped WomenLift content for new audiences; creating new content based on the needs of WomenLift and WomenLifts partner organizations; supporting the packaging existing WomenLift content in accessible downloadable platform that is available primarily for partner organizations as well as general public; developing supplemental materials for specific modules; documenting where contextualizations have been made; quality control of all materials.

Time commitment will be projectbased not weekly. The intensity may vary in relation to projectbased deadlines especially when associated with events.

The Consultant Instructional Designer must possess strong instructional design functional and technical skills have a humancentered design focus have experience designing for an East African audience and be passionate about creating highquality interactive content. They will be responsive to our team via emails and WhatsApps available for occasional video meetings and turn work around in a timely yet reasonable manner. They value human connection and are strongly aligned with WomenLift Healths Mission Vision Culture and Values. Not necessary but desirable to have familiarity with public health leadership development and/or gender equality domains.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

In close collaboration with the EA Senior Facilitator EA Hub staff EA partner organizations and WomenLift design team:

• Design and develop culturally relevant original content based on WomenLift and partner organizations needs. This includes:
  • Assess the needs of partner organizations to drive the content development process
  • Align with WomenLift team and partner organizations on specific goals and outcomes that any module or curriculum is hoping to address
  • Run ideation sessions
  • Conduct research on content topics
  • Design develop and finalize for publication all materials for original content modules such as facilitation guides ppts speaker notes workbooks reference guides handouts overviews of materials etc.
    • This includes supporting finalization of other modules developed by WomenLift Health
• Contextualize and adapt preexisting content for WomenLift and our partner organizations.
• As part of the design and contextualization process:
  • Use a humancentered design approach
  • Ensure content is relevant to the needs and learning styles of specific institutions health systems and cultures.
  • Track the changes made to predeveloped content in our contextualization mapping systems
  • Reference our glossary and style guide for language guidance
  • Share learnings and insights with the team throughout the process
  • Identify and respond to East Africa Hub needs for the curricula to be expanded or go deeper to meet the needs of the audience
  • Support development of communication materials related to the content
• Document lessons learned from specific institutions and document the common training needs across different institutions
• Contribute to monitoring evaluation and learning systems and processes
• Stay abreast of new learnings and best practices related to instructional design

Scope of Work

Ad hoc based on project needs.

Work closely with East Africa Leadership Development and Communications team as well as the CrossRegional Design team on an asneeded basis.

Time Frame for Guaranteed Scope of Work: beginning upon hire for 6 months; option to renew depending on performance

WomenLift Healths Ideal Candidate Comes with the Following:

Required Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Ability:

Minimum Bachelors degree in related field

• Minimum 5 years experience in leadership training curriculum development for diverse East African audiences
• Expertise on Instructional Design including:
  • Proven ability to independently design and develop curricula as well as processes systems and tools to prioritize adapt contextualize and create instructional products for learners across different cultures
  • Knowledge of learning theories and ID models and how/when to employ them.
  • Ability to apply and adjust ID models and the skill to improve and refine them for future use.
  • Ability to take a humancentered approach to instruction that places the learner at the center of the experience matching desired outcomes with the needs of the learners.
• Have a strong command of the English language as it is written and spoken professionally both within East Africa and internationally
• Proven ability to collaborate and cocreate within teams
• Depth of experience maturity and confidence ability to learn and adapt befitting an instructional designer
• Proactive selfstarter able to work independently while communicating important information and asking questions

Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

Demonstrated success in following through and successfully completing projects in a timely manner

Value human connection and are strongly aligned with WomenLift Healths Mission Vision Culture and Values

Skill with Microsoft Office suite Miro Slack email and other technologies.

Preferred (not required) Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Ability:

• Masters degree highly preferred
• Familiarity with and/or strong interest in public and/or global health leadership development and/or gender equality
• Instructional design experience for international audiences
• Knowledge of digital & online learning
• Facilitation experience
• Skill with Adobe suite of tools such as InDesign or Photoshop
• Fluency in additional languages especially French or Swahili

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