TRAINER
+All those Universities on the edX homepage are full of incredible professors and teaching teams, designing on-line courses that will change the face of education. The edX team is constantly training whole new university teams on how to make their visions shine using edX software. We’re looking for some truly talented people to help train people on the tools that are enabling the future of education.
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- Facilitate training programs as required ensuring that best practices are incorporated in all learning environments. +
- Create and design learning materials for training curriculums, incorporate edX best practices into training curriculum. +
- Incorporate key performance metrics into training modules; participate in strategic initiatives +
- Measure, monitor and share training results with business units to identify future training opportunities. +
- Identify and leverage existing resources to maximize partner efficiency and productivity. +
- Work with both Universities and edX to provide strategic input based on future training needs. +
- Communicate effectively in oral and written presentations. +
- Analyze learners training needs and identify cross training opportunities. +
- Mentor and train others on training tools to expand training efficiency and uniformity. +
- Build relationships with universities to be viewed as a trusted training partner. +
Requirements:
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- Minimum of 1-3 years experience developing and delivering educational training, preferably in an educational technology organization. +
- Lean and Agile thinking and training. Experienced in Scrum or kanban preferred. +
- Excellent interpersonal skills including proven presentation and facilitation skills. +
- Strong oral and written communication skills. +
- Flexibility to work on a variety of initiatives; prior startup experience preferred. +
- Outstanding work ethic, results-oriented, and creative/innovative style. +
- Proactive, optimistic approach to problem solving. +
- Commitment to constant personal and organizational improvement. +
- Willingness to travel to partner sites as needed. +
- Bachelors or Master’s in Education, organizational learning, instructional design or other related field preferred. But we're all about education, so let us know how you gained what you need to succeed in this role: projects after completing 6.00x or CS50x, Xbox cheevos, on-line guilds led, large scale innovations championed. +
If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org.
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