Senior Learning Technologist - London, United Kingdom - University College London

University College London
University College London
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London, United Kingdom

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Description

Ref Number
B


Professional Expertise
IT and Digital


Department
Vice-President (Operations) (B01)


Location
London


Working Pattern
Full time


Salary
£51,474-£60,521


Contract Type
Permanent


Working Type
Hybrid (20% - 80% on site)


Available For Secondment
No


Closing Date
19-Feb-2024


About us:

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information
- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.


Our goal is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team's capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering.

We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.


Within ISD, this post is in Digital Education, UCL's hub for supporting, exploiting and enhancing the use of technology in education.


High level departmental objectives are:

  • Providing and enhancing core digital education and educational media services;
  • Supporting and spreading excellent practice;
  • Innovating and evaluating;
  • Developing fullyonline learning capability and capacity;
  • Developing digital capabilities of staff and students;
  • Supporting digital accessibility.

About the role:


As a Senior Learning Technologist, you will provide coordination and expertise in learning technology with a focus on the Wiseflow and Moodle platform as well as other assessment technologies.

You'll support academics and network with colleagues in both academic and professional services roles as well as design and provide training, cascade developments to departments, support strategic planning, collect, and share practice, liaise with suppliers and play an active role in the assessment agile product team.


  • Please note, this is an Internal recruitment advert, available to eligible UCL workers only. Eligible UCL workers will have until to be considered for this role._

Job Ref:

B

Closing Date:
:59 (UK time)


About you:


As an experienced Learning Technologist within UCL, you have substantial expertise in assessment-related learning technologies, along with a strong understanding of digital pedagogy.

You're comfortable to managing an adaptable workload with changing priorities and tight deadlines, as part of a flexible team. Additionally, you have excellent collaboration, communication, influencing and relationship building skills.

You will also be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Educated to degree standard (or equivalent), or relevant experience in developing, promoting, supporting and evaluating a range of educational technologies to enhance teaching, learning and assessment in an education or training context
  • An understanding of how digital technologies can be used to enhance learning, teaching and assessment
  • An understanding of the pedagogical, social and cultural issues affecting the adoption of new learning environments/technologies and ability to develop strategies to deal with them
  • Expertise in the use of virtual learning environments, online assessment tools and lecture capture software.

What we offer:

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

  • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days
  • Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
  • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
  • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
  • Immigration loan
  • Relocation scheme for certain posts
  • On-Site nursery
  • Onsite gym
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
  • Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.


These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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