Managing educational technology projects/ programmes and monitoring and evaluating the efficacy!
Business Management
Calculating organisational overhead/running costs using a budgeting approach that systematically keeps administrative costs as low as possible while maintaining productivity and efficient processes.
Calculate daily rates for staff/team members and track targets to ensure staff/team members meet required targets.
Project tracking and ensuring project budgets cover the overhead/organisational running costs of the business effectively.
Contracting of organisations/sub-contractors and staff/team members.
Cashflow management.
Incentive schemes/Profit share.
Requests for funding/tender submission/proposal development.
Budget creation and management.
Funding/business/project reports (narrative and financial).
Formal requests for extensions/no-cost extensions.
Business Administration/ HR Coordination
Setting up and managing business administration processes,
Organisation/ company registrations.
SLAs (draft/ sign and file in a shared repository).
Grant agreements (consolidate supporting docs/ onboarding/ sign and file in a shared repository).
Section 18A certificates.
Payroll/ SLA invoices.
Payments.
IRP5s.
Operational budget/ expense tracking.
Recruitment process.
Recruit/ interview new team members.
Onboarding processes for new team members.
Letters of appointment (including KPIs/ job descriptions).
Leave (policy, applications and schedules).
Professional development/ team wellness.
Project/ Programmne Management
General Project/Programme Management and Strategic Support
Overall project/programme management includes planning, initiating, executing, controlling, and delivering high-quality work on time and within budget to meet specific funding requirements.
Providing training to clients and their educational constituencies (local and international travel).
Contracting and managing project participants (including project leaders, project managers, researchers, instructional designers, subject matter experts, graphic designers, professional editors, technical developers etc.) and stakeholders across South Africa and internationally.
Writing effective design briefs for copy, instructional text, audio scripts/video scripts.
Training Materials, Content and Course Development (Online and Blended Training Initiatives)
Setup and configuration of Learner Management System (LMS).
eLearning/Digital course development including:
Development of course overview, content/assessment strategy
Development of curriculum framework
Module template design
Subject matter expert review/support
Instructional design/storyboard development
Multimedia/animation creation
Audio/video production
Graphic design
Editorial review/support
LMS upload and quality control
External review/evaluation
Accreditation alignment
Research, Evaluation and Usability Testing
Conceptualising, managing and conducting Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL).
Conducting instructional research through pilot testing (including developing research instruments, data collection, and report writing).
Implementing research outcomes back into project processes.