Curriculum Designer / Curriculum Specialist / Business Skills Tutor

*** Candidate Spotlight *** On the market now – we Have a Highly adept Curriculum Designer / Curriculum Specialist / Business Skills Tutor based in the North West – available immediately for interview and start

£35k Permanent Full Time – ideally remote or hybrid (North West )

Profile

• Highly experienced in curriculum writing and designing eLearning programmes for Apprenticeships and Commercial, accredited products

• Skilled in using Articulate Rise, Canva Pro and Riverside video software and adapting learning programmes from PowerPoint to eLearning

• Promotes digital delivery experience using Teams and other digital platforms.

• Trained in observer processes, mentoring, teaching and assessing staff.

• A1 and DTLLS L5 qualified
• Able to take Apprenticeship standards or qualifications and create detailed Schemes of Work, sequenced to best meet learner needs.

• Possesses a full, clean UK driving licence and excellent remote working capabilities.

• Writing resources and assessments and eLearning programme designs.

• Specialist in using digital tools to create interactive educational content.

• Focused on developing inclusive and accessible training materials.

• Provides training for staff on digital tool utilisation and virtual teaching methods of engagement.

• Holds relevant teaching qualifications, enhancing educational standards.

Skills

Curriculum writing, eLearning programme design, Digital delivery, Observer processes, Mentoring, Teaching, Assessing, Learner engagement, Remote working

Experience

Curriculum Specialist April 2022- September 2026

• Part of a Curriculum team, writing delivery materials for Apprenticeship programmes in line with Apprenticeship standards and where applicable Diploma qualifications, to ensure that delivery is of the highest quality and aligned with Ofsted expectations of provision of teaching and learning.

• Building inclusive materials and supporting Inclusion professionals with bespoke microlearning materials to support learners with additional needs based on briefs provided, including using Canva Pro to adjust background colours for learners with specific colour needs.

• Revamping product offerings to transform from PowerPoint to eLearning and microlearning using CoPilot tools to create prompts to add to Rise authoring tool and Create AI function to make suitable lessons for topics.

• Use of a variety of tools, to produce resources including Articulate Rise, CoPilot, Canva Pro and Riverside, utilise Teams functions for remote teaching and Whiteboard, Padlet and for resources and teaching activities.

• Use digital video recording facilities using Riverside recording suite to make videos, edit videos, use AI functions to enhance, remove duplications and make changes

• Used Canva Pro to add videos to intros and outros, to make a polished overall branded product using additional tools in Canva.

• Used Heyzine to create flipbooks from PDF materials and Adobe Acrobat to enable PDF workbooks to have text boxes for learners to record their answers to questions.

• Building Schemes of work, learning plans and produced and added SCORM assets within Aptem portfolio system, building and updating learning plans, and reviewing and uploading content to maintain functionality.

• Part of Skills England trailblazer groups to enhance current and new standards as they are released, offering insight into the future of roles and programmes aligned to Apprenticeships for Business administrator and Customer service practitioner and Specialist.

• Updated L3 AET for commercial offer to eLearning format and introduced a brand new L2 Information, Advice and guidance programme for commercial space and internal colleagues that was also produced with eLearning content

• Supporting partners with delivery materials, updating project plans for build work, creating bespoke versions of curriculum programmes for businesses

• Updating of SharePoint areas to ensure resources are available for colleagues and partners to use, updating and uploading materials to Aptem learning platform, syncing for learners and editing learning components.

• Utilising a variety of digital tools to ensure virtual teaching and learning is engaging including use of Teams apps, Polls, Microsoft Whiteboard, Padlet, Microsoft Forms and Breakout rooms.

• Carrying out individual support sessions to promote the use of digital tools for delivery of engaging teaching

• Supporting colleagues with the formation of resources where they are the subject specialist to ensure that they have resources that are suitable for engaging teaching and learning sessions

• Delivery of product training to wider business including enrolment teams and delivery teams, new starters and stakeholders.

Curriculum Content Manager – Logistics/Business Oct 2020- April 2022

• Part of the Learning and Innovation Team, responsible for writing, reviewing and updating curriculum materials for new and existing programmes of learning following National standards for a variety of sectors

• Writing and creating self-paced topics for Nearpod interactive platform for adding as SCORM to Canvas LMS.

• Able to use Articulate Rise package to add content, images and text etc. to build interactive courses and utilised Synthesia to make AI information videos to add to Rise packages.

• Rewrote Business Administration level 3 Apprenticeship to include Nearpod self-paced materials and Teams tools such as Whiteboard.

• Experienced in using Teams tools such as Microsoft Forms for polls and surveys and other Microsoft teaching tools such as Whiteboard

• Provide training for Teams tools such as breakout rooms, Forms, presenter view and Whiteboard

• Devising curriculum plans for new standards in collaboration with subject matter experts following Skills England standards

• Knowledgeable of requirements for EIF, Matrix and Safeguarding, PREVENT and British Values

• Liaising with subject matter experts on content and utilising government and other suitable sources of information to ensure materials are up to date and to industry standard

• Mentor for EdTech for tutor groups, producing effective training sessions to help others use learning tools such as Microsoft Whiteboard, Forms and Breakout rooms as part of their online delivery

Staff coach/Programme development/skills tutor June 2014-August 2020

• Part of a Product and People development team, developed and delivered bespoke masterclasses and courses to cover core knowledge elements across a suite of new Apprenticeship standards and short courses including Team leader and Customer Service

• Involved in updating current courses for team leader as virtual delivery sessions for Microsoft Teams and refreshing Apprenticeship standards across the business including updating lesson plans, schemes of work

• Supporting and teaching colleagues with vocational competence to develop appropriate teaching resources and strategies

• Delivering Award in Education and Training level 3 to staff and commercial customers who were making transition from drivers to CPC tutors.

• Writing of assignment briefs for BTEC qualifications including level 3 Award in Education and Training and Work skills level 1.

• Carrying out internal observations of teaching, learning and assessment to support teaching and assessing staff in delivery and compliance, giving feedback and guidance on areas for improvement and recording on SISRA for more efficient recall and reporting trends to support standardisation.

• Responsible for initial planning, development and on-going implementation of Award in Education and Training for internal tutors and commercial customers, including organising evidence, reports and documentation for external SV visits.

• Part of a team developing and delivering resources and materials for Drivers’ CPC, specifically contextualised Customer service training for professional drivers, attending meetings with departments to understand requirements

• Updating, attending and delivering regular CPD sessions to ensure full understanding of current teaching practices within the organisation including PREVENT, British Values and safeguarding.

Adult Skills Coach/Programme developer September 2011-June2014

• Developing of bespoke courses for unemployed learners to enable them to complete and pass an online test for BTEC Certificates in Customer service and Retail enhancing their employability prospects.

• Responsible for the rollout of bespoke short classroom courses to employment coaches in 14 centres across the UK including mentoring staff in the delivery, planning and implementation of short courses including booking of exams and correct invigilation implementation.

• Responsible for completing BTEC pre planner sessions and developing Functional skills session plans to support assessors delivering coaching sessions for Maths, English and ICT.

• Conducting initial assessments during robust induction process of unemployed learners which include literacy, numeracy and ICT assessments, barriers to employment assessments, realistic job goals, work readiness to highlight learners’ prior knowledge and advice and guidance to cover any other areas indicated.

• Forming individual learning plans with all candidates to ensure correct planning including planned job search, realistic job goals and any further training required for basic skills if required.

• Ensuring inclusion of all candidates in sessions with a variety of specific resources designed to engage at all levels in the groups in line with current teaching practices.

• Ensuring equality and diversity and safeguarding is adhered to, individual learning styles are considered plus any learning difficulties including physical limitations to learning and actual learning barriers such as dyslexia.

Qualifications

DTLLS- (Professional Diploma in Education) Level 5

University of Bolton/Bolton Community College   Sept 2009-June 2011

To find out more about my candidate and to arrange a formal introduction please call me on 0161 320 3793 / 07866625747 [email protected]