Job Description

Closing Date 2025/02/20
Reference Number EDU250213-4
Job Title Academic Content Writer: IT (Robotics)
Job Type Fixed term
Campus National
Department Academic - Development (Content)
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Johannesburg
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Minimum Education Level Masters Degree
Job Category Education
Job Advert Summary
Eduvos is looking to employ an Academic Content Writer, with specialisation in Electronical Engeering / Electronics Engineering / Mechanical Engineering/ Mechatronics Engineering / Computer Systems Engineering within the subject area of Robotics, to be based at any of our 12 National Eduvos campuses.
Type of role:
Fixed Term employment agreement
Purpose of the role:
The purpose of the role is to provide content writing services within the Information Technology Department.
Minimum Requirements
Minimum qualifications required:

• Masters in Electronical Engeering / Electronics Engineering / Mechanical Engineering/ Mechatronics Engineering / Computer Systems Engineering

Minimum experience required:

• At least three years experience of lecturing and / or developing study materials in the Higher Education sector.
• Experience in experience in creating interactive content on a learner management system (e.g. Moodle) will highly preferable.
• Experience in setting assessments on various NQF levels.
• Publishing of academic journals will be advantageous.
• Hands on experience with Arduino and/or Raspberry PI (Required)
• Experience in Assembly Programming and/or Python Programming (Required)
• Experience in Modelling of a mechanical system (Required)
• Experience in Position and Orientation of a Robot system (Required)
• Experience in Computer Vision for Robot Applications (Required)
• Experience in Control Systems and Application (Required)

Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
As an Academic Content Writer, you would be responsible for the following:

• Develop new learning material for students (study material and assessments), in collaboration with subject matter experts within the faculty by way of establishing communities of practice:
• Follow development guidelines
• Develop material to program specifications and Eduvos brand
• Review material with moderator for quality assurance
• Submit developed material for Copy Editing via the approved process
• Upload / release material in required format to relevant platform
• Review and update learning material and assessments
• Resolve content related queries
• Ingesting of module content where needed

Potential areas of specialisation required: * Engineering
Functional and Behavioural Competencies
Technical / Functional Competencies

• Writing skills
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Competence in field for which development takes place
• Proficiency in a LMS system (Moodle)
• Setting up a module page

Behavioural Competencies

• Initiative and responsibility
• Constructive teamwork
• Relations and networking
• Effective communication (verbal and written)
• Analysis and judgment / problem solving
• Innovation and change
• Systematic approach (planning and organising)