Job Overview:
Position Name: Consultant: Learning Strategy and Projects
Employment Type: Full-time Employment
Work Location: New Delhi / Bangalore, India – Hybrid work
Function: Product
Job Description:
The Role Context:
The selected candidate will join VSSPL’s Content Team and contribute to the Learning Content and Services Strategy. The role will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative, AI-powered approaches to create highly engaging and effective learning experiences. It requires a strong understanding of AI tools for learning, instructional design principles, learning theories, and educational technology, complemented by strategic thinking and effective collaboration skills.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Learning Strategy
- Develop course-wise learning strategies aligned with the organization’s programme objectives, learner profiles, delivery environments, and intended outcomes
- Translate requirements into structured curricula, learning journeys, modules, lessons, and microlearning experiences
- Apply instructional-design frameworks; define suitable learning approaches, including video-based learning, scenario-based learning, experiential activities, simulations, assessments, projects, peer learning, and AI-enabled learner support
- Ensure learner-centric, outcome-oriented solutions relevant to learners from diverse educational, linguistic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate AI tools and support their selection and adoption.
2. AI-Enabled Design and Development of Learning Content
Contribute to the Foundation’s AI-powered Content Factory by:
- Establishing effective prompt frameworks for storyboarding, voice over, On screen Texts, and media generation.
- Setting the relevant context, storytelling techniques, language, tone, background for the learning experience at the onset
- Develop concise, engaging, and outcome-focused video-based microlearning.
- Use appropriate video formats, including demonstrations, process explanations, scenarios, role plays, first-person narratives, and post-video learning activities.
- Use AI tools to localize learning products, while addressing cultural differences.
- Revisit video prototypes as well as emerging tools to iteratively improve the learner engagement, and production quality.
- Ensuring appropriate human review, validation, and sign-off at defined stages.
- Implement interactivity that contributes to retention and better learning outcomes
· Create assessment blueprints, question banks, rubrics, scoring guides, feedback mechanisms, and quality-review standards.
- Ensure effective outputs across web, mobile, low-bandwidth, and blended-learning environments.
3. Learning Technology
- Research and recommend effective teaching and learning technologies and learning interventions for specific learning products.
· Leverage learning technologies that enhance engagement and personalization, including but not limited to adaptive learning, microlearning, stackable- credentialing, gamification etc. Stay updated on the latest AI-powered learning tools, platforms, services to understand & use their potential. Specifically focus on AI based tools for bringing production efficiency and agility in design and development. Be responsible for deployment of solutions for such distinctive learning experiences.
· Drive the development and implementation of innovative learning experiences, while managing the balance between design-superiority and pragmatic implementation-constraints.
· Collaborate with technology teams to configure LTI-enabled learning experiences with the appropriate content based on contextualized prompts
4. Stakeholder Collaboration
- Connect with target learners and trainers as applicable, for new initiatives as well as validation of offerings
- Conduct prototyping, learner testing to improve usability, accessibility, engagement, and effective learning.
5. Project Management
- Develop and manage project plans covering scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements.
- Coordinate with internal and external team members including vendors.
- Monitor progress against agreed deliverables and proactively address risks
- Effectively use AI for updates, dashboards, presentations for stakeholders.
- Ensure deliveries on time, within budget, and in accordance with agreed learning and quality standards.
Skills and Experience
- Graduate or Post-graduate
- Relevant certifications in AI, instructional design, programme management, learning technologies would be an advantage.
- 5-10 years of relevant professional experience, in learning strategy with AI technology roles in EdTech firms
- Abreast with the emerging AI technology and tools in the field, quick to self-learn, compare & contrast, enabling decisions
- Well-versed with Instructional design models and theory of learning with respect to skill seekers
- Behavioural competencies:
o Self-motivated and results oriented.
o Strategic thinker finds connections to bigger picture and drives valuable experiences and conversations with members.
o Knowledge of and experience in delivering edtech powered learning projects
o Comfortable speaking in front of small and large groups.
o A sense-maker: able to perceive emerging industry trends and translate them into content and/or learning experiences.
o Proven experience as an adaptive and collaborative member, willing to take on new projects and support initiatives that build an enterprise.
o Strong networking and interpersonal skills.
o Team-player, willing to both lead and be led, motivated to contribute to other’s success.
o Significant demonstrated experience, excellent organizational skills .
o Openness to new ideas; a creative and innovative mind energetically searching for new solutions.
o Inquisitive, flexible with entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
o A passion for learning and continuous improvement.
o Demonstrates solid judgment and problem-solving skills
o Strong analytical skills, ability to explain complex concepts in a simplified manner
o High attention to detail and commitment to quality