Content Design Lead

**Job Title**: Content Design Lead

**Salary**: £51,840 to £56,549 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £51,840 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £56,549 will be via incremental progression.

**Location**: Hendon/Sidcup

**Job Summary**:
This highly skilled content architect role will lead the content design teams of all future blended learning content into the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), ensuring that all technical content is architecturally compatibility with the Learning Management System (LMS).

This senior role will drive forward the Met’s ‘Curriculum Modernisation Programme’, which delivers highly professional learning interventions building knowledge retention & improved learner outcomes.

Reporting to the Content Development Lead the role holder provides strategic leadership, management & accountability, implementing the content assessment design, build, test & deployment (including existing certifications). Management of the Content Catalogue & Design Guidance Repository.

**Key Result Areas**

The role holder will act as the content creation project lead and will create content design proposals, before making recommendations for internal / external build. The role holder will oversee the final production of legally complex training content, through the entire life cycle of ‘design, build, test, deployment & review’.

The role holder will determine the most appropriate build solution through detailed understanding of internal capacity & capability versus commercially available solutions.

Part of the role will be reviewing existing content and rebranding / developing existing learning pathways to create consistency across all MPS learning content.

The role holder will lead the integrated Police Officer ‘Operational Content Developer’s’ function within the team to embed operational relevance & community focus within content development, to ensure all learning content is aligned to core MPS demand / risk, and that the learning intervention translates into meaningful delivery across all MPS operations.

Provide organisational reassurance that training design and delivery is fit-for-purpose through effective liaison with senior internal & external stakeholders / governance forums. This is achieved through strict ownership of the content creation budgets, future workflows and project schedules of both curriculum & peer-2-peer based learning content.

The role holder will lead teams of technical and non-technical staff.

We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

**Knowledge**:
**Detailed knowledge and understanding of commercial, contractual and procurement design constraints to enable consideration of all viable training platforms.**:
**Ability to oversee projects scanning for potential risks through delay or through the release of sensitive / harmful / incorrect content.**:
**Working with modern blended learning content into a large-scale organisation to generate efficiencies for both L&D and the learner.**:
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**Skills**:
**Skilled to graduate degree level (or higher) in learning and design or equivalent technical degree or relevant industry experience.**:
**Skills to demonstrate up-to-date use of technical content solutions, software packages, data compliance packages (e.g. SCORM II) to construct and modify digital learning content.**:
**Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Products as well as standard digital learning development products e.g. Articulate 360, Adobe CC.**:
**Understanding of video, animation and blended learning design tools.**:
**Proven ability to successfully design & build learning content, with an understanding of development methodology, linked to wider blended solutions which may include traditional face-to-face interventions, virtual classrooms, self-directed, workplace coaching.**:
**Must have a good working knowledge of the ‘design, build, test’ principles of content creation.**:
**CIPD qualification desirable.**:
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**Experience**:
**This senior manager will have a proven track record of experience driving blended learning packages through the design, build and test lifecycle. Train the Trainer qualification or relevant educational design experience or College of Policing sector standard.**:
**Experience influencing and communicating effectively, both internally and externally, to ensure L&D receives the support services agreed upon and expected.**:
**Experience in technical LMS architecture including scripting languages, programming languages, database architecture.**:
**Experience leading teams of