Senior Learning Designer

Senior Learning Designer - Fixed Term (5-month maternity cover)

• Based in Wellington Central
• Be part of the Customer Experience and Analytics team

Are you passionate about e-learning?

Do you want to make a difference to the way NZQA engages with our customers and staff, empowering them with what they want to know or should know and get skilled at, so they can do their job well?

Are you keen to take NZQA's Learning Management System (LMS) from good to great?

If yes, we are keen to hear from you.

Whakatairangatia nga kete o te matauranga ki te ao marama!

E te tai whakarunga, e te tai whakararo – nau piki mai, nau kake mai ki te Mana Tohu Matauranga o Aotearoa.

May the baskets of knowledge (education) be brought into the world of light.

We welcome one and all to join us at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

About the role

The Senior Learning Designer role will be the Product Owner of NZQA's Learning Management System (LMS) and will work closely with other learning design and delivery specialists and other managers and staff across the organisation (and externally) to prioritise a backlog of learning modules that will be delivered via the LMS.

The Senior Learning Designer will have their eye on a key outside-in objective – ensuring that the learning products and services delivered via the LMS are having the desired outcome and are being perceived as value-adding by learners (customers or NZQA staff).

This role will also convene and chair an LMS Working Group across NZQA to assist in backlog development, carrying out and peer reviewing Learning Needs Analysis (LNA), peer reviewing LMS modules and evaluation of LMS modules / products.

The Senior Learning Designer will also design and develop LMS modules themselves or acquire modules from other education sector / government agencies or third parties.

This role is a collaborative role with lots of support and will work closely with a Systems Administrator, other Customer Experience (Cx) professionals, learning design experts and subject matter experts.

Skills and experience

You are, first and foremost, absolutely customer focussed and fully understand that your role is aimed at ensuring that various learning products and services delivered via NZQA's LMS enable our customers and staff to be successful in doing their job well.

You are someone with lots of experience in learning design (particularly e-learning) and delivery, but more importantly you know how to channel that experience constructively by bringing people along the journey.

You know that other people may not constantly 'live in your world' so you know how to bring them along the journey towards best practice learning scoping and LNA followed by designing, delivering and evaluating learning products (especially e-learning).

You would ideally have experience in the following :

About us

NZQA is a te reo Maori learning organisation and is committed to equity and lifelong learning.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds that will enrich our understanding of the education system.

We prioritise the importance of understanding tikanga in building a culturally responsive workplace.

NZQA is dedicated to providing a welcoming environment to Maori and Pacific staff and has active Maori and Pacific staff networks which contribute to NZQA's strategic action plans.

What we can offer :

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For more information about this role and NZQA please refer to the job description, NZQA's Customer Charter and Organisational Values.

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If you would like to discuss further, please call Dominic Doyle at

Applications close at 5.00 pm on 16 September 2025.