Academic (Financial Advice)

**Play a pivotal role in shaping the financial advice profession**:

- **26 days' of Annual Leave - including 1 for your birthday, and 2 days' of Wellbeing Leave**:

- **We value a positive and supportive work environment**:

- **Permanent full-time position based in Sydney**

**Role**

Join us at Kaplan Professional as Academic (Financial Advice). In this role, you will lead and contribute to the development, review, and evaluation of learning and assessment materials across Higher Education (HE), Vocational Education (VE), Continuing Education (CE), International, Non-award, and bespoke programs. You will play a crucial role in ensuring an optimal learning experience for students through the creation and updating of educational content and assessments.

**Responsibilities**
- Write and update content outlines and briefs which includes learning outcomes, overview of content components, external references and reading lists.
- Ensure all feedback from students, Course Coordinators, assessors/tutors, benchmarking activities and other sources is incorporated into content where appropriate.
- Write and develop multimedia content in collaboration with Multimedia Producers to rigorous technical, intellectual and academic standards.
- Ensure content is developed at appropriate AQF level or competencies as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Instructional Designers and Multimedia Producers and provide final content sign-off.
- Identify appropriate industry and academic experts with appropriate qualifications and experience to use in video interviews.
- Write scripts, present to camera and record voice-overs for videos and motion graphics.
- Collaborate with Multimedia Producers and/or external production company in the production of video content.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of the financial advice sector, current issues, legislation and regulations.
- Regularly consult with technical experts and industry practitioners relevant to financial advice.
- Participate in internal governance committees in accordance with the Academic Quality and Governance Framework.
- Comply with the relevant expectations of external stakeholders including government regulatory bodies such as ASQA and TEQSA, as well as with external and professional bodies and associations.

**Requirements**:

- Postgraduate qualification in Financial Advice (essential)
- Minimum of 5 years experience in the financial advice industry (essential)
- Minimum of 3 years experience in learning design and delivery within higher education and/or vocational education environments (essential)
- Excellent research and writing skills
- Demonstrated experience in end-to-end multimedia educational content development including scoping outlines, learning outcomes, writing assessments and creating learning artefacts.
- Demonstrated knowledge of industry/professional association codes
- Understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements impacting the industry
- Proven ability to convey complex ideas in a user-friendly manner, utilising multimedia formats
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to meet tight production deadlines
- Ability to collaborate with Instructional Designers and Multimedia Producers in the production of multimedia content
- Experience with video, piece to camera (PTC), voice-overs (desirable)

**_Applications close 06 March 2025_**

**Kaplan Professional**

Kaplan Professional is Australia’s major provider of financial planning, applied finance, real estate, mortgage broking, insurance & leadership online higher education, vocational education and corporate courses and programs. Our Sydney office, by Wynyard station, comprises around 150 people who work in a range of professional and academic roles. We also have staff in other locations around Australia, both in office environments and working remotely.

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