kineo_internal_top banner

Jobs at Kineo

Great people are the heart and soul of Kineo. As a growing company, we are looking for highly enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic individuals, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects with tight deadlines.

In addition to a competitive basic salary and generous benefits scheme, we offer a great working atmosphere in a friendly and supportive team, challenging and interesting projects, and the freedom to think creatively and innovate.

Find out more here.

Kineo also has a graduate recruitment scheme which runs each summer. For more details on the Kineo Graduate Scheme, and to find out more about one of our recent graduates, click here or follow the link in the left hand menu.

Current Vacancies

Our current UK vacancies are listed below. 

 STRICTLY NO AGENCIES.

Solutions Architect (Permanent - Sheffield, UK)

We are looking for a Business Solutions Architect to join our Learning Management Systems Division, working on interesting and challenging projects within a friendly and supportive team.

You’ll be working in a project based environment, figuring out how best to customise and configure Totara, Moodle, Drupal and other open source products to meet our client requirements.

On a day to day basis you’ll:

  • Provide functional and technical expertise on proposals
  • Work closely with clients to understand & analyse their requirements, through discussions, system walk-throughs and documentation 
  • Design solutions to meet these requirements, through a combination of existing functionality and customisations
  • Create functional specifications & configuration documents, including site architecture, role profiles, contextual diagrams, user journeys and mock-ups

We are looking for someone with the following key skills:

  • Excellent client facing skills
  • Ability to lead functional and technical design meetings/workshops
  • Requirements capture and business analysis
  • Solution/application design and problem solving
  • UI design/wireframing
  • Able to write clear, concise and effective documentation
  • Learn new technologies and techniques quickly 
  • Highly-motivated, well-organised, articulate and persuasive when under pressure

It would also be a bonus if you have knowledge or experience in some of the following areas:

  • Formal and informal learning technologies and platforms
  • Website design and development
  • Understanding of HR functions such as training & development and performance management
  • Open source LMS and CMS products

Salary: We can offer the right person a competitive salary and a very generous benefits package.

To apply: email your CV and covering letter to jobs@kineo.com. We are looking to fill the role as soon as possible and will contact you to arrange a date for interview if your application is successful.

No agencies please.

 

Bid Manager (Permanent - Brighton, UK)

We are looking for someone to develop, manage and maintain our proposal process to ensure we deliver high quality, successful bids to our clients. The objective of the role is to help us to operate more effectively, produce even better results and to enable further business growth.

This role is based within the Kineo Sales & Marketing team and you will work across multiple teams at Kineo with senior employees and clients. There is potential for growth within Kineo and City & Guilds as we develop our bid strategy

This is a senior role requiring ownership, management and accountability. You will need to be experienced in this type of work, enthusiastic, have a can do attitude, be highly organised, a great people person, flexible and hard working. In return we offer a competitive salary with excellent benefits and an exciting opportunity to join a fresh, successful and growing global organisation.

Download the full job description.

Salary: Competitive, based on the e-learning industry, level of role and your experience

To apply: email your CV and covering letter to jobs@kineo.com.  We are looking to fill the role as soon as possible and will contact you to arrange a date for interview if your application is successful.

No agencies please.

 

Senior Web Developers (Permanent - Brighton, UK)

We are looking for experienced, autonomous programmers who are fluent and highly skilled in at least one language or platform in all tiers of Open Source web application development: data persistence (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL), back-end (e.g. PHP, Python, Java), front-end (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).

You’ll probably have a background in traditional software engineering (either academic or commercial experience) and must be comfortable applying fundamental object-oriented design principles to achieve robust software models. You will preferably have an understanding of SOLID design principles and definitely have a keen appreciation for clean, decoupled, testable code. While our senior developers are adept OO programmers, their appreciation for minimal code means they understand that quite often, a humble function is all that’s needed.

You’ll take the technical lead on projects and be able to break down functional specifications aimed at business people into time-estimated development task lists aimed at programmers. We are looking for developers who will be comfortable mentoring junior colleagues and possibly have prior experience of this.

The right candidates will be keen to share their knowledge and have the drive and enthusiasm to push forward best practices. You’ll identify emerging web development trends, frameworks and technologies that are likely to last and have the wisdom to differentiate these from others which end up being a flash in the pan or a passing fad.

Download the full job description.

Salary: Up to £40k depending on experience

To apply: Please send a CV and covering email to jobs@kineo.com including details of your salary expectations.

No agencies please.


Graduate Systems Analyst (Permanent - Brighton, UK)

We are looking for a Graduate Business/Systems Analyst to join our Learning Management System (LMS) Division in Brighton. The LMS team specialise in Moodle and Totara LMS as well as other open source tools which help support learning – such as Drupal, Mahara and Joomla.

You’ll be working directly with clients to guide them through the implementation of their LMS project. Typical tasks involve demonstrating and explaining features to clients (via webinars or face to face meetings), gathering and analysing client requirements, configuring the LMS accordingly, creating Functional Specifications for custom functionality and working with the Art Directors in our team to theme the LMS in accordance with the client’s brand and visual identity.

You will be given full training and you’ll learn all about our products and the implementation process. As part of this, you will work with our experienced Project Managers, Art Directors and Developers and quickly progress to taking on a lead role on projects.

You’ll be working in a fast paced environment, where you’ll need to think on your feet and use your initiative. This role is best suited to an enthusiastic and outgoing person, who enjoys working with people, as part of a team and has an eye for detail. There are plenty of career opportunities and professional development options within Kineo for ambitious people.

Download the full job description.

What do we offer?
We offer a permanent role with a salary of £20,000 for the first year and a generous benefits package.

What's next?
Drop us your CV with a covering letter telling us why you're who we're looking for. Email jobs@kineo.com with Grad Scheme in the subject line by June 30th 2013.

No agencies please.

E-Learning Designer (Permanent - Brighton, UK)

Job purpose: To create design approaches and e-learning content for a wide range of Kineo projects, delivering to Kineo’s quality standards, and ensuring design and content meets client and project objectives.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with clients to identify performance and training requirements
  • Link training requirements with performance outcomes
  • Provide gap analysis between existing client materials and desired approach
  • Create and recommend learning approach (and alternatives)
  • Able to explain advantages (and disadvantages) about differing learning approaches
  • Identify suitable learning objectives
  • Ensure learning approach is logical and methodical for all learning users
  • Create content suitable for client and learning model
  • Provide brief and review content created by others (client and Kineo based)
  • Work with clients to review and improve content
  • Ensure graphical elements are consistent with client branding
  • Recommend audio, video and differing graphical approaches as appropriate
  • Implement design approaches created by others as part of a larger team
  • Provide briefing to Kineo colleagues on design requirements and technical approaches
  • Coach and mentor junior learning designers
  • Accurately estimate and forecast delivery timescales


Essential characteristics:

  • At least 3 year’s experience designing and scripting in an e-learning position
  • Highly enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic individual comfortable working in a fast-paced growth company, on multiple projects with tight deadlines
  • Capable of taking initiative: making recommendations on best approach in terms of scoping, design and scripting and following through with action, working with support of lead designer
  • Strong writing and editing skills, with proven ability to write a range of technical, instructional, educational materials in different contexts, in a range of tones and styles (writing samples will be required)
  • Strong analytical skills, ability to review large volumes of information and make informed decisions about priorities and treatment of materials
  • Excellent communication skills: capable of explaining rationale of decisions to clients, communicating progress and updates to clients and to colleagues, communicating design aspects and requirements to graphic designers and technical team members
  • Strong IT capabilities in range of MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), comfortable learning new applications including e-learning authoring tools and graphics application packages


Desirable characteristics:

  • Client facing experience in capturing requirements and presenting solutions
  • Experience in developing authoring tools and working with LMS/CMSs (e.g. Articulate, Captivate, Mohive, Atlantic Link, Flash, Dreamweaver, Moodle, other open source LMS/CMS) and their capabilities
  • Experience with project plan development and cost estimation


To apply: please send a CV and covering letter to jobs@kineo.com

No agencies please.


 Solutions Consultant  (Brighton/London based, plus UK travel)

The Solutions Consultant role is the key Kineo’s to successful relationships with clients, because our client relationships start with you.

You’ll be the person who goes to see our existing and prospective clients, to understand their challenges and goals. You’ll put the ideas together for how we can partner to meet those challenges and then you’ll present the proposed solution to win the opportunity to make it our next new project. You’ll work with our production teams to ensure they’re involved during the process – and you’ll stay involved to ensure successful delivery to our client’s objectives.

It’s a sales role - you will have a target, and you’ll be well rewarded for achieving it and going beyond it. But we don’t want just ‘traditional salespeople’. We want people who are passionate about learning and technology, and who ideally have firsthand experience of designing, developing, managing and implementing solutions.

People thriving in this role at Kineo today include experienced eLearning designers, former clients, former project managers, and consultants with a flair for selling solutions. You’ll need to be confident, credible and able to hold your own with senior stakeholders in conversations around the eLearning and/or LMS market, design, delivery, and technical solutions.

You’ll be great at communicating, both in proposals and pitches, and at tradeshows and marketing events. Ideally you will know the eLearning and/or the LMS industry well, and will build relationships within it. You’ll be competitive and be thrilled by winning new opportunities to work with our clients. You’ll be great at building relationships with clients and making them feel loved.

Is that you? Then we want you to join the leading eLearning company - and take us, and our clients, to further success.

Download the full job description.

Salary: Competitive and in line with role expectations.

To apply: Please send your CV, covering email and two examples of your writing to jobs@kineo.com. 


For the writing, ideally these will be proposals (or extracts from proposals) for eLearning / LMS services that you’ve written. They could be internal proposals or documents that make a business case / call for action or investment. If you don’t have anything along those lines, then please provide an alternative example of persuasive writing/presentation material that you have developed.

We have on-going recruitment for this role and we'll be in touch to arrange an interview if you're application is successful.

No agencies please.


Freelance Learning Designers / Scriptwriters (Brighton, UK)

Kineo is looking to expand its team of freelance learning designers for its award-winning e-learning team. If you have one or more years' experience in instructional design and script-writing and are looking to work on an exciting range of projects, we may be just what you are looking for.

Skills Range:

  • At least 1 year’s experience in an e-learning or technical writing position.
  • Highly enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic individual comfortable working in a fast-paced growth company, on multiple projects with tight deadlines.
  • Capable of taking initiative: making recommendations on best approach in terms of scoping, design and scripting and following through with action, working with support of lead designer.
  • Strong writing and editing skills, with proven ability to write a range of technical, instructional, educational materials in different contexts, in a range of tones and styles.
  • Strong analytical skills, ability to review large volumes of information and make informed decisions about priorities and treatment of materials.
  • Strong communication skills: capable explaining rationale of decisions to clients, communicating progress and updates to clients and to colleagues, communicating design aspects and requirements to graphic designers and technical teams members.
  • Strong IT capabilities in range of MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).

To apply: Please send a CV, day rate expectations and a sample of work to jobs@kineo.com.

We have on-going recruitment for this role and we'll be in touch to arrange an interview if you're application is successful.

No agencies please.