Friday, March 31, 2023

Digital Learning Specialist – Animation Expert/Illustrator

Organization: Aflatoun
Closing date: 13 Apr 2023

Organization : Aflatoun

Location : Remote/Netherlands
Job type : Full time
Compensation : Competitive
Comment : Inclusive of pension, health insurance, holiday allowance and national insurance contributions
Deadline : 13/04/2023

The Organization
Aflatoun International is a non-profit organization, which offers social, financial & entrepreneurship education to children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a more equitable world. Aflatoun creates high-quality curricula for different age groups, which are contextualized to local needs and circumstances, and are implemented by over 300 partner organizations in 101 countries. Aflatoun programmes inspire children to discover their talents and put them to use, to stand up for their rights and those of their communities through active learning and problem solving. They learn how to save, how to budget, and how to set up social and financial enterprises that benefit themselves, their families and their communities. Aflatoun has been recognized globally (Brookings, Harvard, HundrEd, Million Lives Club) for its high-impact, low-cost model, which has shown to be effective in changing behaviors of participants across the globe.

By using a social franchise model, Aflatoun transfers curricular content, monitoring and evaluation tools, and training capacity to partner organisations, helping them enhance their existing expertise and create an efficient learning ecosystem. Aflatoun’s programmes follow an active-learning, participant- centered methodology, which combines social and financial education (SFE) through engaging participants, educators, government institutions and civil society organisations.

We are currently looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Digital Learning Specialist – Illustrator/Animator to join us in our mission.

Position
The digital learning specialist is responsible for helping our content development approach and building the team capacity to authoring appropriate and flexible digital content that can be used across different platforms/Apps. This Specialist will help ensure that the education team has the capacity to translate its existing content using authoring tools. We hope that the resulting content will be organized in a manner that is agnostic, reusable, accessible and manageable across different platforms or Apps. We expect the specialist to work within and seek to improve a defined set of content standards and technological approaches that will be developed prior to the start of this work. This process will help refine how content is developed and setup for delivery across multiple learning platforms.

Key Areas of Responsibility
• Developing illustrations or animation videos for multiple platforms and based on design requirements
• Manage the entire illustration or video production process including script writing and voice recordings
• Providing training on best practices for illustrations or video production and design
• Updating existing videos or illustrations
• Work closely with the instructional designer, project manager/product owner and other team members

Key deliverables
• Developing illustrations or animation videos to reflect agreed content and of exceptional quality
• Identifying tools to support the development of illustrations/videos
• Supporting conceptualization, storyboarding, content adaptation and development
• Sustaining the collaborative relationship with the departments and forging new relationships to engender the use and scale of digital resources

Non-technical responsibilities as Aflatoun staff
• Positively contribute to team discussions and the effective running of the organisation;
• Cross-departmental collaboration, compliance with organisational policies and procedures including submitting monthly timesheets;
• Promote Aflatoun’s work on social media;
• Perform other duties and tasks, consistent with the skills and expertise, as required in non- routine circumstances;
• Be willing to adapt to different tasks and different cross-organisational tasks, this includes but is not limited to helping deliver Aflatoun events such as the International Conferences and staff retreats.

Required Skills & Qualifications
• At least 2 years experience in illustrations/animation video content development, and or illustrations
• Experience in Multimedia Design, Audio Production, Illustrations/Graphic Design or User Experience Design
• Experience in developing illustrations/videos for e-Learning interventions for self-directed, facilitator-led or blended learning
• Experience in any illustration/animation video production tool and AI voice generation tool
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Knowledge of additional languages such as Dutch, French, Arabic, Spanish, German or Russian is an advantage.
• Ability to multi-task and to work under pressure with very tight deadlines
• Ability to work effectively in a team in an international organisation
• Ability and willingness to travel

Employment details
The position is for a full time. We offer a dynamic and pleasant multicultural working environment, with competitive compensation per month (inclusive of pension, health insurance, holiday allowance, and national insurance contributions) - the compensation level awarded will depend on relevant work experience and educational background.

Due to the nature of Aflatoun’s work with children around the world, specific attention is drawn towards Aflatoun’s Child Protection Policy and its Policy on the Protection of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). These two policies are required to be signed by new employees and forms part of the employment documents related to the employment contract. The applicant commits to zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse. An additional written test may be required. Management may appoint at a lower step based on the candidate’s skills and experiences against the position’s requirements

How to apply

Please apply at https://aflatoun.bamboohr.com/careers/177 no later than 13/04/202023. If you have any specific questions on the position please contact the Digital Learning and Innovations Manager at maxwell@aflatoun.org.
Please include links to your portfolio when applying for this position.



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