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Academic Content Writer (Remote)

3 days ago
Application ends: March 1, 2025
Deadline date:
March 1, 2025

Job Description


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.
 
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications –
  • A minimum postgraduate qualification in the relevant field of Information Technology.
  • A Master’s Degree will be preferable.
 
Experience/Skills –
  • 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.
Potential areas of specialisation required:
    • 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
 
Advantageous –
  • Publishing of academic journals.
 
ATTRIBUTES:
  • 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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