Academic Content Writer (Remote)
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Academic Content Writer (Remote)Cape Town - Western Cape ~ Johannesburg - Gauteng ~ Durban - KwaZulu Natal ENVIRONMENT: DEVELOP course material, including module guides, study manuals, video content and assessments and ingest (where needed) on an ongoing basis for a dynamic Academic Institute seeking an Academic Content Writer for its Faculty of Information Technology. The successful incumbent must possess a Postgraduate tertiary qualification in an IT-related discipline with 3 years work experience lecturing and / or developing study materials for Higher Education able to setup a module page and proficient in a LMS system. DUTIES:
- Develop new learning material for students (study material and assessments), in collaboration with subject matter experts within the faculty by way of establishing communities of practice:
- Follow development guidelines.
- Develop material to program specifications and brand.
- Review material with moderator for quality assurance.
- Submit developed material for Copy Editing via the approved process.
- Upload / release material in required format to relevant platform.
- Review and update learning material and assessments.
- Resolve content related queries.
- Ingesting of module content where needed.
- A minimum postgraduate qualification in the relevant field of Information Technology.
- A Masters Degree will be preferable.
- At least 3 years experience of lecturing and / or developing study materials for Higher Education.
- Writing skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Competence in field for which development takes place.
- Proficiency in a LMS system.
- Setting up a module page.
- Programming (Backend) (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Security and Cloud ((BSc IT / Honours); and
- Databases and Programming (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Networking (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Robotics (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Data Science (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Web (Frontend) (BSc IT / Honours); and
- Server
- Publishing of academic journals.
- Initiative and responsibility.
- Constructive teamwork.
- Relations and networking.
- Effective communication (verbal and written).
- Analysis and judgment / problem solving.
- Innovation and change.
- Systematic approach (planning and organising).
- Execution.
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