Learning Technology Advisor

Closing date: 11th May 2022, 5pm

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced and creative learning technologist to join our Learning and Teaching Technologies team. Working closely with colleagues across the University, you will support staff and students to make the best use of our suite of learning technology services.

The Opportunity:

You will help us provide support and guidance on learning technology to a community of over 40,000 staff and students across the University. The learning technology services supported cover a range of learning and teaching activities including virtual learning environments, virtual classrooms, and assessment systems. You will take a lead role in the service management of one or more of the learning technology services. Working with colleagues at all levels of seniority, you will use your communication skills to consult with users, maintain and develop support resources, devise user training activities, and be active in service improvement projects.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Service management and customer relations experience, with demonstrable user focus.
• Excellent communication, digital and inter-personal skills.
• Sound knowledge of learning and teaching context within the HE sector.
• Ability to advise a diverse user base on how to make best use of a range of IT services.
• Awareness and understanding of current technology developments.
• Relevant experience working in a similar or related role.

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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.  

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. 

Interviews will be held mid-May 2022.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work  in the UK.  Further information is available on our right to work webpages.