Learning Technologist Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE07: £36,333.00 - £43,155.00 Per Annum
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School, Medical Education
Full Time - 35 Hours per Week
Fixed Term contract for 12 months, in the first instance
We are looking for an experienced learning technologist to join our postgraduate clinical education team within the Edinburgh Medical School: Medical Education. You will work with, support and guide academic and administrative staff across two postgraduate clinical education programmes and one faculty development programme, aimed at improving the knowledge of clinical educators about teaching and learning and related issues. This is an opportunity to work with highly-experienced and knowledgeable educators: our team was nominated in 2019 and 2020 for an Advance HE Collaborative Award in Teaching Excellence. The successful applicant will have creativity, energy and expertise in how technology is used in effective course design and development, innovative teaching and integrated approaches to assessment and feedback. We are seeking a highly-skilled and motivated individual with experience of working with a wide range of learning technologies to support online programmes.
The Opportunity:
The post-holder will work with the programme teams of two postgraduate programmes to design and develop online tasks and resources, and will contribute to the strategic direction in line with the values, purposes and context of each programme. This will involve considerations of UX, accessibility, student-focused design, practicalities for staff and students, and streamlining and integrating processes with existing systems (e.g. Blackboard Learn VLE). The post will also involve developing ad hoc materials, supporting a range of activities relating to the programmes (including marketing-related materials, social media, and academic webinars), and playing a key role, where appropriate, in designing and setting up local and integrated systems to support programme administration.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Previous experience of working in a related role within an educational setting
- Proven capacity for designing and developing online learning materials and resources.
- Commitment to learning new skills and keeping up-to-date on developments in pedagogy in relation to technology
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to communicate with people with a wide range of technical expertise
- Enthusiasm and ability to work flexible hours and autonomously
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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. 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.
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The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
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