Learning Experience Design Animator – StudyForge

Heritage Christian Online School is a thriving online learning community offering K-12 home and online education to students across the province. HCOS provides flexible solutions and programming tailored to every child’s learning journey. StudyForge is the curriculum development department of HCOS that creates and licenses innovative, engaging, and effective digital resources for tens of thousands of middle and high school students across North America, founded on best practices in digital learning refined over the last 17 years.

StudyForge has an opening for a temporary, Learning Experience Design Animator. This is a full-time, remote, temporary position working 40 hours per week for approximately 9-10 months. As a Learning Experience Design Animator, you will be joining a team of passionate educators developing world-class digital curriculum for online schools. This arena is fraught with challenges: When students are taking an online course, the slightest error can derail them. Teachers need detailed answer keys and content needs to be inclusive and accessible for all learners.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and review animated content using Adobe CC Suite apps, ensuring a high standard of quality
  • Collaborate with other teams and team members across StudyForge to understand and influence design intent when developing content
  • Review animated content created by other team members, and discuss reviews from other team members of your own work
  • Develop and present a creative vision for animated content as you become accustomed to the work and environment
  • Support and maintain existing products by repairing and updating videos
• Contribute to the culture of StudyForge
  • Represent the values and mission of HCOS and StudyForge well, in all internal or external communications
  • Be willing to receive feedback, collaborate with others, and actively participate in creating a better workplace for everyone
  • Give open and honest feedback about potential problems with the product, your job, or the work environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a commitment to, and a lifestyle reflective of, the KCCS Foundational Beliefs
• A decisive knack for understanding how animation communicates ideas
• At least a strong intermediate Animate CC and/or Adobe After Effects CC skillset
• A high standard for quality animation, creating effective and beautiful motion, and the ability to hold others to those standards
• A solid understanding of iterative design processes as it applies to animation
• An extreme attention to detail, prepared for real stakes for students when details are missed
• Excellent communicators, both verbal and written
• Valuing of relationship, empathetic, servant-hearted
• Relentless and determined when solving complex issues
• Open and willing to both give and receive constructive feedback
• Flexible and willing to learn new technologies

How we work:

Prioritize the Person  |  Innovate through Iteration  |  Collaborate Constructively  |  Insist on Integrity

These core values at StudyForge influence everything we do. Within the curriculum team, this means:

• We always keep in mind all of the individuals who will encounter our content and we pay attention to the reality that each person on our team has a unique perspective that only they can bring.
• We build on what we have done before. We are always learning and listening to feedback on every iteration. Mistakes are inevitable, but we see them as opportunities for growth.
• We are a team. We succeed together and we fail together. We share new ideas and give constructive criticism with dignity and respect.
• We don’t cut corners, ensuring that every piece of content we build is scrutinized with the goal of student and teacher success in mind.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive Compensation
  • Salary $34.83 – $36.32 per hour
• Impact: 
  • StudyForge reaches tens of thousands of students each year
• Collaboration: 
  • Work with experienced online educators and curriculum developers
  • Collaborate with other teams such as visual design, learning experience design, software development, and business development
• Variety: 
  • Regular projects and challenges
• Balance: 
  • 3 weeks annual vacation to start
• Flexibility: 
  • Work from home, in the Kelowna office, or wherever you feel productive
  • Work when inspiration hits and set your own hours as long as you are available for meetings and training and get your work done