Learning Design and Curriculum Manager at Microsoft Nigeria

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. 

At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Learning Design and Curriculum Manager

Job Number: 1030411
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Human Resources
Role Type: Individual Contributor

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality written, video, and interactive content for self-service and instructor-led delivery.
• Have skills in instructional design, learning development principles and tools, the ability to develop technical training content.
• Work closely with engineers to design, develop, and maintain technical learning content and curricula for engineering disciplines.
• Be comfortable working autonomously in an area of technical and professional skills to analyze training needs and develop complex curricula and interactive activities.
• Assess training needs through surveys, interviews, and product telemetry to determine performance gaps and identify opportunities, priorities, and recommended training interventions within course ware and software to improve course development strategies.
• Customize and build content to support the program strategy
• Drive the execution, implementation and delivery of the curriculum and program based on strategy, plan design and modality.
• Assist in developing & maintaining technical training content, lab exercises, presentations, and accompanying materials.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment to deliver learning content on rapidly changing technologies.
• Have strong project management and communication skills so that stakeholders, teammates and leadership understand timelines and milestones.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with successful on-demand and instructor-led training programs.
• Proven skills with a variety of eLearning content creation tools.
• Demonstrated success in using data and metrics to validate assumptions, recommendations and drive lasting positive operational changes and improvements.
• Highly self-directed and comfortable in a startup environment with ambiguous and rapidly growing learning demands.
• Strong sense of urgency in driving projects to completion.
• Diversity and inclusion are core to who you are:
  • A collaborative team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable working in a highly matrixed environment.
• Startup experience a plus.
• The job requires travel up to 25% travel.
• Nigeria work authorization and criminal background check are required.

Benefits / Perks
Listed below are the benefits/perks, and may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.