Learning Catalog Specialist / Archivist

Are you driven to help people learn and grow, all while affecting positive change in the world? Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that depends on you for results? Then come join Freethink! Help us make people smarter, faster.

Freethink is a new media publisher telling stories from the frontiers of our rapidly-changing world. We release short-form videos profiling innovators, entrepreneurs, and activists who are thinking differently and making a difference.

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About Big Think+ at Freethink

Big Think’s mission has always been to help people get smarter, faster around critical human qualities. Easy to ignore because they’re hard to quantify, “soft skills” are what help humans learn, grow, and navigate the world with greater ease. Broadly speaking, this set of superpowers—in areas such as creativity, decision making, leadership, and emotional intelligence—enables us to learn from history and come up with better ways of doing things—not only to progress, but to continually rethink what progress means as a society and within ourselves. And with the array of global challenges we face, from economic inequality to social and political fragmentation to climate change, these skills are now of existential importance. Our e-learning solution, Big Think+, is designed to help individuals and organizations navigate the challenges of the 21st century with agility and confidence.

Recently Big Think and our e-Learning platform, Big Think +, were acquired by Freethink.

What You’ll Get Out Of This Opportunity

• Collaborative culture in a startup environment
• Competitive salary and benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance, 401(k), Commuter Benefits, Mobile Phone Stipend, and more!
• Growth opportunities within a fast-growing company
• The chance to catapult your career in the evolving online education industry, with the added benefit of pursuing a “mini-MBA” while immersing yourself in the Big Think + library.
• Remote, work from home flexibility.

What You’ll Do

• Metadata Tagging - As a Learning Catalog Specialist for Big Think+, you will partner with the Head of Learning, Instructional Design Team, and Platform Lead to implement our metadata tagging system for an ever-growing catalog of 1000+ video lessons for individual contributors, team managers and senior leaders.
• Content Marketing Alignment - Coordinate content alignment between the Big Think+ learning catalog, bigthink.com, and social media properties. The Catalog Specialist is familiar with instructional design methodology and understands the educational value of content for learning managers, teachers and learners. This individual will work closely with the Head of Learning to implement strategic direction for brand messaging, information hierarchies, and content distribution plans. You will bring a bird’s-eye view to Big Think+ learning content, with the goal of understanding where individual pieces of content can fit into larger education plans. An educator by training or in practice, the Catalog Specialist is familiar with - or a quick study in - best practices in usability, search engine optimization, enterprise-level content management systems and content marketing.
• LMS Administrative Support - Support content and sales projects as requested; Assist with managing and maintaining our content publishing process. The Big Think+ catalog brings adult learning principles together with engaging storytelling from subject matter experts across Big Think’s Top 21 Capabilities for Personal and Organizational Development in the 21st Century. The Learning Catalog Specialist will own the cataloging process that serves LMS administration, digital asset management, and instructional design.

What You’ll Need

• Positive, can-do attitude
• Ability to thrive in a competitive environment
• Communication, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills
• Bachelor Degree in Adult Learning, Instructional Design, Educational Technology or a related field; Master’s Degree preferred
• A familiarity with instructional design methodology and an understanding of the educational value of content for learning managers, teachers, and learners.
• Detail-oriented and learner obsessed
• Critical reasoning and problem-solving skills, including the ability to assess microlearning content for multiple learner levels and contexts
• Superb curriculum and instructional design skills, with the ability to see where a piece of content might fit into a larger education plan
• A desire to evolve your position and become a critical thinking partner serving on an ambitious, mission-driven team
• Technical skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Google Office Suite and Analytics, SEO; Basic graphic and image editing skills a huge plus

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