EF

Overview

We are looking for a freelance, Swedish-speaking Learning Designer (LD) to help develop great online content that will enable learners to improve their Swedish proficiency level.

The LD will be tasked with creating engaging, CEFR-level appropriate content that leverages the power of Catalyst Editor, EF’s own authoring tool selected for this project.

Location: UK / Europe / North America / South America / Asia / Australasia.

This role requires you to work remotely from your own location, for which you will need reliable access to high-speed internet.

About the role

You will:

• contribute to project goals through syllabus planning.
• create compelling course content and engaging learning activities which is fit for our adult learners and appropriate for a specified CEFR level.
• author original carrier content such as level-appropriate audio/video scripts, texts, and scenarios, which links to specified learning outcomes and meets project guidelines.
• develop sequences of practice activities and scenarios that support specified learning objectives as well as devising summative tasks, scenarios and short assessments.
• take part in internal quality checking processes such as peer-review/constructive critiquing of other learning designers’ work at draft and final stages of production.
• attend and contribute to project-relevant meetings and trainings, as necessary.

This role is for an initial period of three to four months and a minimum availability of 15 hours per week, with anticipated start date of June/July 2023. In return, you will be offered a competitive compensation package based on the work delivered with payment milestones set throughout the duration of the project.

About you

You will be:

• passionate about developing and delivering language learning content that meets the real world needs of our learners.
• familiar with the CEFR and its use in developing quality, level-appropriate content for adult language learners.
• driven to develop quality, publishable content for learners of Swedish that meets project specifications and is supplied within stipulated timeframes.
• used to devising carrier content that is relevant to learners’ real-world needs as well as devising sequences of practice activities, tasks, scenarios, and short assessments.
• excited to work with cutting-edge authoring tools and content management systems.
• comfortable working digitally with a globally distributed team.

Additionally, you will have:

• Experience teaching Swedish as a foreign language and, ideally, you will have developed your own teaching materials and/or self-study resources for learners of Swedish as a foreign language.
• Demonstrable, pedagogical knowledge of Swedish and experience of dealing with issues that learners of Swedish from different language backgrounds encounter.
• Tertiary level qualifications in language teaching, applied linguistics and/or digital learning.
• C2 proficiency in Swedish and B2 (or above) in English.

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.