Digital Learning Design Apprentice
KINCH ROBINSON LTD
Sheffield, S10 2GJ (S10 2GJ)
Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 14 October 2025)
Posted on 30 September 2025
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Summary
We’re working with a client in the law and finance sector who creates short online learning courses for professionals. They’re now looking for a creative digital learning designer apprentice to help refresh and improve their courses and bring new content to life!
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Digital learning designer (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
During your training period: 5 days per week in the office
Once agreed: 4 days in the office, with 1 day per week working from home for apprenticeship training
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 10 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
We’re working with a client in the law and finance sector who creates short online learning courses for professionals. They’re now looking for a creative digital learning designer apprentice to help refresh and improve their courses and bring new content to life!
The Opportunity:
As a digital learning designer apprentice you’ll play a key role in upgrading and rebranding existing e-learning content, making it more engaging and visually exciting.
As new content comes in, you’ll also have the chance to help create whole new courses from scratch, a great way to showcase your creativity.
What You’ll Do:
- Become proficient in specialist software, including Articulate 360, Synthesia, and Play.ht
- Gain experience with the client’s Learning Management System (LMS) and provide support to users
- Work with a team to design and build interactive course content
- Follow style guidelines to ensure consistent branding, fonts, and templates
- Apply accessibility standards so content is inclusive for all learners
- Contribute to scripting and creating original course content
- Get involved in marketing video production projects
- Share ideas, problem-solve, and take ownership of tasks and projects
- Demonstrate strong communication skills, both in person and in writing
What You’ll Get:
- Salary: Year 1 £18,000 Year 2 £21,000 - the opportunity to earn while you learn
- Launch your career in a Level 5 Digital Learning Designer Apprenticeship - a nationally recognised apprenticeship qualification
- 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays + Christmas shutdown
- Full training in specialist software and e-learning tools
- Opportunities to get involved in designing brand-new courses as content develops
- Support from an experienced team who’ll help you grow
Where you'll work
Sheffield, S10 2GJ
S10 2GJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SCCU LTD
Training course
Digital learning designer (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Develop communication strategies to manage and engage with project stakeholders and use appropriate methods and technologies to facilitate and document communications.
- Plan and facilitate discussions and activities to initiate and progress work, analyse and interpret information, gather requirements, and engage effectively with stakeholders.
- Gather, analyse, and interpret information about learners and learning environments, such as learner feedback, learning analytics, needs analysis, and profile mapping, to inform the learning design approach and technical requirements.
- Select and apply appropriate learning theories and instructional design models and methodologies to inform digital learning design approaches, outputs, and implementation strategies.
- Use instructional design tools, taxonomies, and frameworks to articulate meaningful learning objectives and learning content, through scripts or storyboards.
- Use learning objectives to map a learning journey to facilitate and measure their achievement through formative and summative activities.
- Interpret and synthesise information sources and concepts to organise content and re-present information to align with learning objectives and meet learner needs.
- Communicate concepts, designs, and strategies to suit different stakeholder audiences and facilitate Collaborative processes, using appropriate formats and technologies, such as face to face and virtual presentations, storyboards, and project documentation.
- Select and use distinct software, hardware, platforms, and tools to design, develop, and implement digital learning products and experiences.
- Use professional techniques to script, edit, create, and produce a range of multimedia formats, including text, imagery, audio, and video.
- Configure and apply regulatory, professional, organisational and technical standards and techniques including accessibility standards and data security to the sustainable design and formatting of documents, multimedia, user interface, digital products and platforms.
- Conduct the quality checking and testing of digital outputs whilst ensuring there is ongoing improvement of quality assurance processes with internally and or with target users, prior to implementation, including proofreading, updating, renewing and revising existing content, application of branding, accessibility and functionality.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of digital learning products and experiences in achieving project requirements and intended learning objectives, using appropriate tools and methodologies.
- Plan and manage your own design and development activities and collaborate with others to achieve shared objectives and outputs.
- Organise and manage digital assets and outputs on a platform in accordance with organisational or professional standards, to maintain regulatory compliance, version control, efficient collaborative processes, and quality assurance.
- Assimilate and use evaluative information to contribute to the review of organisational policies, processes and systems.
- Develop communication strategies to manage and engage with project stakeholders and use appropriate methods and technologies to facilitate and document communications.
- Plan and facilitate discussions and activities to initiate and progress work, analyse and interpret information, gather requirements, and engage effectively with stakeholders.
- Gather, analyse, and interpret information about learners and learning environments, such as learner feedback, learning analytics, needs analysis, and profile mapping, to inform the learning design approach and technical requirements.
- Select and apply appropriate learning theories and instructional design models and methodologies to inform digital learning design approaches, outputs, and implementation strategies.
- Use instructional design tools, taxonomies, and frameworks to articulate meaningful learning objectives and learning content, through scripts or storyboards.
- Use learning objectives to map a learning journey to facilitate and measure their achievement through formative and summative activities.
- Interpret and synthesise information sources and concepts to organise content and re-present information to align with learning objectives and meet learner needs.
- Communicate concepts, designs, and strategies to suit different stakeholder audiences and facilitate Collaborative processes, using appropriate formats and technologies, such as face to face and virtual presentations, storyboards, and project documentation.
- Select and use distinct software, hardware, platforms, and tools to design, develop, and implement digital learning products and experiences.
- Use professional techniques to script, edit, create, and produce a range of multimedia formats, including text, imagery, audio, and video.
- Configure and apply regulatory, professional, organisational and technical standards and techniques including accessibility standards and data security to the sustainable design and formatting of documents, multimedia, user interface, digital products and platforms.
- Conduct the quality checking and testing of digital outputs whilst ensuring there is ongoing improvement of quality assurance processes with internally and or with target users, prior to implementation, including proofreading, updating, renewing and revising existing content, application of branding, accessibility and functionality.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of digital learning products and experiences in achieving project requirements and intended learning objectives, using appropriate tools and methodologies.
- Plan and manage your own design and development activities and collaborate with others to achieve shared objectives and outputs.
- Organise and manage digital assets and outputs on a platform in accordance with organisational or professional standards, to maintain regulatory compliance, version control, efficient collaborative processes, and quality assurance.
- Assimilate and use evaluative information to contribute to the review of organisational policies, processes and systems.
Training schedule
Digital Learning Designer Level 5 (Higher national diploma) Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Creative
- Customer care skills
- IT skills
- Logical
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Number skills
About this employer
We’re working with a client in the law and finance sector who creates short online learning courses for professionals. They’re now looking for a creative digital learning designer apprentice to help refresh and improve their courses and bring new content to life!
After this apprenticeship
- This apprenticeship could lead to exciting career paths such as: E-learning Designer/Developer Instructional Designer Learning & Development Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SCCU LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344414.
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Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 14 October 2025)
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