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Moodle Specialist

Johannesburg
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: IT
Reference: JHB006508/LD

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Employer: Datacentrix (Pty) Ltd

Managed Talent Solutions a Business Unit within Datacentrix is looking for an experienced Learning Management System: Moodle Specialist who will be responsible for configuring, maintaining and overseeing the company's learning management system (LMS) application and environment.The primary responsibility includes optimising LMS application performance, documenting the operation and support processes and procedures related to the LMS application and environment, investigating, and resolving LMS application and server environment errors and communicating with the business community.The LMS Specialist will be expected to collaborate with IT, learning colleges and business to adhere to and maintain policies, processes and procedures related to maintenance, update, upgrade, integration and development of the LMS application and environment.

Education and Skills Required:

Matric
Moodle Educator Certification, Moodle Partner Certification
Experience with other LMS platforms.
Understanding of e-learning standards (e.g., SCORM, xAPI).
Knowledge of cloud-based Moodle hosting solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure)
3 or more years of experience with administration, development, and customisation of a LMS in a business or educational environment.
Demonstrated experience with different Moodle hosting solutions and knowledge of relevant security requirements.
Demonstrated experience with data management and query building.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Configure, administer, maintain, update, and document the Moodle LMS environment.
Supervise the security, performance, and faulty tolerance of the Moodle LMS environment.
Partner with business areas utilising Moodle / LMS.
Consult with instructional designers, business, and other users of the LMS environment to support the integration and development of features and customisations for the LMS application.
Oversee relationships with related vendors and host providers, enforcing SLA and support expectations.
Respond to inquiries and requests from users for Moodle-related assistance as escalated through the support process.
Develop an all-encompassing policy on Moodle, including access rights, and identifying roles on Moodle.
Assign, grant and approve roles and responsibilities of users.
Integrate educational technologies to improve teaching and learning.
Document the Moodle LMS environment and plug-ins.
Site administration: Set up and change key features of the learner management platform, including the site's front page, mobile app, messaging, notifications, location, language.
Arrange for plugins and upgrades: install plugins and upgrade the Moodle site as directed by IT.
Upgrade self if possible, or at least manage it with the vendor.
Provide ongoing support across the business.
Respond to user inquiries and requests for assistance.
Create and assist programme heads to generate management reports across projects.
Provide best practice expertise to content owners, developer of programmes to ensure continuous improvement of learning material and how users access content.
Develop roles and duties and present training workshops for content owners to use Moodle.
Collaborate with each functional owner to develop and import course content, update content, build engaging pre and post assessments for content and create learner dashboards to track progress and leaders .
Design online training modules where required.
Adding and managing badges, creating competency frameworks, and learning plan templates.
Assist, develop and implement IT training initiatives.

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About Datacentrix (Pty) Ltd

At a Glance

Our Business:

Datacentrix is a leading, empowered ICT integrator that provides high performing and secure ICT solutions to corporate South Africa and the country’s public services sector.

Our Footprint:

Datacentrix operates from regional branch offices in Pretoria, Samrand, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban, with a network of small medium enterprises (SMEs) and service personnel around South Africa that are responsible for servicing remote areas.
Our Partners: Datacentrix’ global partnerships with its technology partners remain critical to the company’s success. The company is accredited by its vendors at the highest possible level both in the technical and sales arenas, which enhances the company’s strategic value as a single source service provider.

To achieve this, Datacentrix invests in its people through training and education, embracing broad based black economic empowerment (BBBEE), while actively partnering and representing leading technology partners with distinction.

Vision

Datacentrix intends to become the preferred ICT partner to the majority of South Africa's top commercial and public sector organisations over the next five years.