"Educational Learning Technologist"

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, is the interdisciplinary partnership of leading social and biomedical longitudinal population studies. Our mission is to increase the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, data and research to ensure that longitudinal evidence is used to address the health, social, economic and environmental challenges facing the UK, now and in the future.

The Educational / Learning Technologist will be responsible for supporting and enhancing CLOSER's online learning provision, with a key focus on consolidating the existing Learning Hub and Training Hub into a single, user-friendly platform, and supporting the development and delivery of a suite of online asynchronous short courses.

This role involves working with the Head of Education and Training (ET) to develop high-quality, accessible online learning materials that meet the needs of researchers, data professionals and policy makers working with longitudinal population studies (LPS) data. The Educational / Learning Technologist will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering effective digital learning experiences, ensuring that all content is pedagogically sound and accessible to all users.

The role is available until the 30th September 2028 in the first instance.

You will have a relevant degree or significant, equivalent, professional experience and an understanding of how web-based, multimedia and mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning and teaching. You will also have experience of course design using Moodle or other virtual learning environment.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

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.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

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

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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