Learning Technologist - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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£29,619 - £34,308 per annum

Infrastructure, Information and Learning Technology Services Team, School of Social and Political Science, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Full time: 35 hours per week

Open Ended:
Permanent

The Opportunity:


This is new and exciting opportunity to join a School which is committed to expanding, enhancing and supporting its learning and teaching to deliver the highest standards.


As a member of the school's integrated Web, Systems and Learning Technology team you will be responsible for the creation and support of innovative digital synchronous and asynchronous teaching content and methodology.

You will carry out this work in partnership with academic and technical colleagues, informed by your experience in delivering high quality pedagogic and practical advice and guidance.


The primary role of this post is to support the team to design, develop, implement, and evaluate learning and teaching technologies through the management and creation of high quality interactive digital content and services on a variety of platforms, including the University's VLE software (Blackboard Learn).


Your skills and attributes for success:

  • HNC/HND or equivalent level qualifications plus relevant experience of the uses and capabilities of online technologies for teaching and learning
OR

  • Experience of the uses and capabilities of online technologies for teaching and learning, demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding work/roles
OR

  • Proven experience in supporting users to make the most of the capabilities of the Learn VLE or similar, and in the use of technology enhanced learning tools, such as blogs, wikis, and collaboration tools, within a pedagogical framework.
  • Welldeveloped written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to communicate with a diverse audience, with a wide range of technical expertise.
  • Ability to identify, prioritise, plan and manage work independently without direct supervision, and flexibility to accommodate peaks and ad hoc changes in workload
  • Ability to quickly learn to use new tools and interfaces effectively and to liaise effectively with IT professional and administrative staff to secure enhancements.
  • Experience of media creation and editing using packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro or other advanced photo, audio and video editing software.
  • Experience of website development using an enterprise content management system and or Microsoft SharePoint

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.


The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will typically be held - 3 weeks after the post closing date.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges.

Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.


The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) is one of the largest and most successful schools of social science in the UK, with global reach and local and global impact.

Our goals are to promote excellence in education, research and innovation.

The School comprises six Subject Areas plus a number of research and teaching centres and institutes, and a number of cross-Subject consortia and other units.

The academic staff complement currently numbers c.200fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 1,100 undergraduate students on its programmes of study, over 500 taught postgraduates, and over 300 doctoral researchers.

In REF 2014, the School ret
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