OUTsurance has been propelling the South African insurance industry forward for the last 24 years. As leaders in the field, we’re always looking for innovative ways to create digitally-advanced solutions, without losing sight of our human values.

Our continued success can be attributed to OUTstanding employees who set the bar high with their energy and expertise. If you’re keen to grow your career in a vibrant environment with lots of friendly ‘gees’, this could be the career opportunity you’ve been looking for.

We are seeking a creative and innovative individual whose main role will be to work with our eLearning knowledge and content specialists to design and develop online content for internal learning purposes.

As a secondary role, this person will support our eLearning Administrators in taking care of the operational performance of our Learner Management System (LMS) as well as offering assistance to the trainers within the OUTsurance Learning Academy.

This person must gain an in-depth knowledge of our LMS, be able to identify and solve system related anomalies and create efficiencies within the environment.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in the learning material development process, including deliverables, sign-offs and timelines
• Design and develop online learning content using applicable software
• Design and develop mailers, infographics and internal communication content using applicable software
• Deal with technical support calls/emails/queries from stakeholders and trainers  
• Provide first line support on LMS concerns and user issues by logging and managing cases on the applicable platform.
• Reporting on usage and statistics
• Test and quality assure content on the LMS
• Maintain the LMS procedure document
• Manage and maintain the social component of the LMS
• Explore trends in mobile learning and build onto the adoption of this feature
• Investigate the LMS, suggest improvements that will reduce manual tasks
• Ensure trainers’ LMS knowledge and skill is up to date based on new findings within the LMS
• Assist Academy trainers by:
  • Uploading and updating course material and assessments to the LMS
  • Creating and managing classes on the LMS, as well as daily attendance rostering
  • Creating, monitoring and drawing of online surveys/feedback forms
  • Manually uploading results to the LMS
  • Conduct per question trend analysis
  • Providing support during virtual classroom sessions

This list is not exhaustive and is a guideline. This person will be expected to undertake any additional tasks which are deemed to be fair and reasonable, and fall within the scope of the Learning and eLearning Academy.

Required Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• Computer literacy
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• High attention to detail
• Strong admin orientation with exceptional language and writing ability
• Able to work in isolation as well as within a team
• Creative and innovative
• Open to criticism and feedback
• Researching skills
• Highly analytical, with problem solving abilities
• Passionate about systems and creating efficiencies
• Ability to engage with, and to transfer knowledge to, peers and stakeholders at any level

• Diploma / BA Graphic Design or similar

Exposure to one or more of the below disciplines will be beneficial:

• Graphic design
•  Instructional design
• Video animation and editing
• Audio and video production

Exposure to coding using HTML, CSS and JavaScript will be highly beneficial, but is not compulsory

Align themselves with the OUTsurance culture and values of Awesome Service, Passionate, Honest, Human, Dynamic and Recognition.

In accordance with OUTsurance Insurance Company Ltd Employment Equity goals, preference will be given to individuals who meet the job requirements and are from the various designated groups.