Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer | 7-Month Fixed-Term Contract

It’s a career beyond expectations.

7-month fixed-term opportunity | $140,000 + superannuation, pro rata | Make an impact through contemporary learning design

About Us

We create extraordinary experiences. We create memories, we take care of our shared heritage. This means careers where we innovate, always push for better, and value your perspective. This is a world where we bring together our love for the natural environment and our care for one another to make a real difference. This is a world where you’ll discover something new, every day.

Join our Talent and Experience Team to drive inclusion, engagement and employee safety in a sector leader that balances exceptional performance and service delivery with care.

Bring your passion for learning, drive for innovation, and an ability to quickly build relationships to this community-focused, purpose-driven organisation.

The Role

Join us for 7 months as an experienced Instructional Designer, earning $140,000 + superannuation, pro rata, and help shape learning that makes a genuine difference. This role is a 0.8 FTE part-time opportunity with flexible hours and days worked.

Working across safety, wellbeing, culture and inclusion, you’ll partner with subject matter experts to:

• Create engaging eLearning and learning resources using adult learning and contemporary design principles, with a focus on integrating recent psychosocial safety and positive duty legislation into existing courses using Articulate Rise 360.
• Lead learning projects to roll out new policies and procedures, from discovery and design through to delivery and evaluation.
• Turn complex information into clear, accessible and relatable learning experiences.
• Ensure learning meets quality, compliance and organisational requirements.

About You

You’re an experienced learning professional who can take a learning need from initial conversation through to a polished, practical solution. You’re comfortable partnering with different stakeholders, turning complex content into accessible learning, and managing multiple stages of learning projects.

You’ll bring:

• Experience in eLearning technology, instructional design, adult education, learning and development or a tertiary qualification in related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience in learning needs analysis and instructional design, applying contemporary methodologies, adult learning principles and learning technologies.
• Demonstrated experience developing interactive, engaging and accessible eLearning using Articulate Rise 360.
• Strong stakeholder partnering, communication and co-design skills.
• The ability to manage learning projects, monitor delivery and respond effectively when priorities or requirements change.

Experience developing learning content within Human Resources and/or Health, Safety & Wellbeing environments, or previous public sector experience, will be highly regarded.

What’s on Offer

This is an opportunity to apply your instructional design expertise to learning that supports meaningful organisational priorities, while joining a purpose-driven organisation and collaborative People & Culture environment.

We offer a fulfilling career with exceptional personal and professional growth opportunities, along with a comprehensive range of benefits, including:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Employee Health, Wellbeing and Assistance Programs, including complimentary onsite physio services
• Discounts available at our employee café and onsite florists

Don’t meet every requirement? We still encourage you to apply. Your unique strengths might be just what we need.

We care for our colleagues and the community we serve. To protect one another, it is a requirement that all successful candidates complete background checks.

If you have any access requirements which restrict you from fully participating in our recruitment process, please contact [email protected] so that we can discuss necessary adjustments.

We're reviewing applications as they come in and may remove this ad early once the position is filled, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

For more information on Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, please visit www.smct.org.au.

SMCT is an equal opportunity employer and a Diversity Council Australia Member.