systems administrator United Kingdom
Job description
We are looking for an Learning System Administrator to join our amazing team.
Location: Gilwell Park, Chingford, London (with Hybrid working)
Salary: £28,678 per annum - Band D Level 3, inclusive outer London weighting
Term: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.
About the Role:
As our Learning System Administrator, you will get to help us set up and configure a new Learning System for 150,000 volunteers across the UK. You’ll make sure we have the right course templates, notifications messages, learning logics and content structures in place.
What we are looking for in our Learning System Administrator:
- Specialist experience in administrating, configuring or managing Learning Management or Experience Systems or similar
- Knowledge of and/or skills in Inclusive Design and Accessibility, especially the Web Content 11 Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)
- Great technical and digital skills – xAPI, SCORM, Widgets and other such terms are familiar to you, and you are happy to learn more about and engage with the technical aspect of Learning Systems and IT integrations
- Basic HTML skills – you are confident in using basic html code to design system messages and emails
- Strong administrative skills and attention to detail
- Willingness to work as part of an Agile team
Key responsibilities as our Learning System Administrator:
- Delving deep into the configuration and setup of our new Learning Experience System becoming an expert in the system
- Setting up course templates and categories
- Defining and configuring logics in the learning system to make sure our volunteers have the right learning assigned or recommended to them
- Importing existing training materials as courses and resources in the system
- Assisting in the data migration of historic learning records for our volunteers to make sure their learning is recognised in the new learning system
- Plugging in xAPI packages, making sure they can communicate with the Learning System
- Setting up skill structures, meta-tags and notification messages in the Learning System that help our volunteers engage with the right learning at the right time
- Developing the necessary documentation and guidance to help staff and volunteers engage with our Learning System
- Collaborating with colleagues to make sure we end up with a user-friendly, inclusive and accessible learning system for our volunteers
- Making sure we follow standards and best practices for all of the above from a digital perspective (versioning, change logs, consistency of approach, etc)
As our Learning System Administrator in return, we offer you:
- Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department
- Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
- Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
- 28 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 32 days after two years
- Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
- Three extra days over Christmas
We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Flexible working hours
- Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
- Study and volunteer leave
Closing date for applications:11:59pm Sunday 6 August 2023
Interviews will be held on: 10th or 12th August 2023
The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.
Strictly no agencies.
