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What We Do
We create custom eLearning and highly Interactive Workshops for our clients.
We simulate the job environment and then learners get to play the "game" of doing their job. By making choices and then seeing the results of their choices, they develop their skills. Interactivity is key to our design philosophy. Not passive lectures, or reading, or videos. If learners aren't actively participating (which includes making mistakes and experiencing the consequences), they aren't going to get better at their jobs.
One of the best parts of the work we do is the variety. One week it's helping therapists learn how to work with borderline personality disorders, the next week it's manager training for a large technology company, and the weeks after that we're designing a simulation of electrical circuits for car mechanics.
You can read more about the work we do and about us at: https://www.handcraftedlearning.com
What's The Job?
This can vary, but here are some common tasks:
- Co-leading client meetings with a Design Director
- Building rapport and establishing great working relationships with clients
- Collaborating with other PMs to plan people resourcing
- Breaking deliverables down into daily tasks
- Creating a schedule and hours estimate for a new project
- Maintaining quality across all deliverables for a project
Who We're Looking For
Over the years we've found that these are the three most important traits for people who do well at this job: interpersonal warmth, improvisation, and a sense of ownership.
Interpersonal warmth is hard to quantify, but we know that it makes a difference with our clients and our team. We're looking for people who put other people at ease, and who gain satisfaction from the way those around them feel about the experience of working together. They're positive, and they put empathy over ego. The journey matters as much as the destination.
Our Project Managers are improvisers. They're conductors for the project team, and the team is playing jazz, and jazz goes where creative opportunities reveal themselves. That means establishing a tempo, driving forward, adjusting to the unexpected, and anticipating challenges and opportunities. When we kick off a project, we know the starting point and that the end point is a quality learning experience, but the exact form that experience takes is discovered along the way.
At Handcrafted Learning, a Project Manager holds everything: the color palette, the deadlines, the skills and abilities of the people working on the project, the acronyms, the recent changes in the organizational structure of our client, and the bottom-line business drivers that are the reason we're creating this training in the first place. In our experience, these people tend to have very high personal standards. It's innate. They can't imagine sending out work that is below their own standards and that leads them to have a strong sense of ownership.
Here are some specific requirements:
- Ease with learning new software
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Intermediate to advanced MS Office skills
- Enjoys collaborating with a team
Here are some nice-to-haves, with bonus points:
- Interest in how people learn (+4)
- Sense of humor (can be goofy, witty, or dry) (+2)
- Interactive simulation experience (+3)
- Writing or editing skills (+1)
- Experience working in an iterative creative field like TV/movie/game production (+2)
Who We Are
We're a small, but growing custom learning company. We are a woman and minority-owned business and we value the diverse group of people we work with.
We work hard, we're dedicated to our craft, and we really value the community aspect of our work. We've built a great team of people who are smart and kind. We laugh a lot, even when we're working on a tight deadline.
We were recently named a Great Place To Work, which you can check out here:
https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7051918
You can also learn more about us here:
https://www.facebook.com/handcraftedlearning
This Position
This is a 40 hours per week contract position. If you're looking for a half-time contracting position, then this would not be a good fit.
Prior experience is a plus, but not required. We look for people who have the core traits we listed above and who are excited to learn how we design learning experiences at Handcrafted Learning.
We pay folks in this position $30-$40/hr depending on experience. We'd consider going slightly higher than that if someone was especially skilled and/or experienced.
This is a work-from-home contract position. You supply your own computer, desk, etc. We don't care where you're located so long as you have a good internet connection and you're in the main US/Canada time zones.
This 1099 contract position is for 3 months and could lead to an employee position with benefits.
Hiring in a Pandemic
We've been 100% remote since we founded the company in 2009, so we've been fortunate to not have to change the way we work. Also, we specialize in online learning (eLearning simulations as well as virtual workshops) and our business has continued to grow.
In a time when there has been so much change in the world, our work has actually been a source of stability. We're still checking the news for updates like everyone else, but at least what we do and the amazing people we work with provide some solace in these times.
Interested?
Send us your resume, a cover letter, and some samples of your writing or links to your work online. Non-academic writing samples are ideal, such as a blog, a professional document, or a movie review. Please send the above to Rachel.
