Functional Administrator

Updated: over 2 years ago
Deadline: 11 Oct 2021

The Extension School collaborates with the faculties of the TU Delft to create a high-quality online learning experience for professionals and learners around the world. We offer MOOCs, professional courses, online academic courses and short learning programmes around the themes Energy Transition, Sustainable Cities, Future of Transport, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Technology and Skills for Engineers.

With our research and innovation activities we gain further knowledge on online education and use that to improve our campus education.

In this role, you will partner with the Technical Instructional Designers to ensure that the Extension School can deliver outstanding open, online and blended courses on the following platforms:

  • edX, (edx.org)
  • Professional Education Platform (ProfEd), (profed.tudelft.nl)
  • TU Delft Online Courses (TUDOC), (onlinecourses.tudelft.nl)

You will oversee the Extension School servers, the tools hosted on these servers and supported third-party tools used in our courses.

As a Functional Administrator, you will be:

  • Managing and administrating the Extension School Open edX platforms (ProfEd and TUDOC).
  • Managing and administrating supported third-party tools and applications hosted on the Extension School servers.
  • Supervising the installation, upgrade, and daily maintenance of our Open edX platforms (ProfEd and TUDOC) in collaboration with our IT department and external suppliers.
  • Ensuring that the Extension School Open edX platforms and tools are always up and running.
  • Working collaboratively with team members and key stakeholders to ensure that best practices are followed consistently.
  • Second line support to learners and courses teams and communicate with suppliers.
  • Testing new features / update of tools and open edX platform.


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