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Faculty Technology Enhanced Learning Officer (SSPP)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£32,676 to £37,297 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
30 Jun 2021

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Faculty Technology Enhanced Learning Officer (SSPP)

Job ID: 025267

Salary: £32,676 to £37,297 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Posted: 14-Jun-2021

Closing date: 30-Jun-2021

Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy

Department: SSPP Faculty Office

Contact details: James Brown, james.m.brown@kcl.ac.uk

Strand Campus   Professional and support services    


Job description
This role will support the development and delivery of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP), working with the King’s Centre for Technology-Enhanced Learning.
 
This will include supporting e-learning innovations that improve the user experience and assisting with the training of academic and professional services staff. The successful candidate will have a passion for technology-enhanced learning and will be able to inspire and support the drive for continuous improvement. The post-holder will act as the second-line support within the Faculty for the College’s virtual learning environment (VLE), KEATS, alongside other teaching and learning platforms.
 
The post-holder will work within the SSPP Faculty Education Team and will be responsible to the Faculty Technology-Enhanced Learning Manager.
 
At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers and the potential to join community staff networks. The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is committed to embedding good diversity and inclusion practice into all of its activities. It actively supports the creation and maintenance of a community that allows all of its members to develop their full potential.
 
This post will be offered on an indefinite  contract .
This is a full-time  post – 100% full time equivalent.

Key responsibilities

  • To provide second line support via the faculty technology-enhanced learning (TEL) support channels. 
  • To provide advice and guidance to academic and professional services colleagues on the best use of the Moodle VLE (known as KEATS) / LMS. 
  • To support technology-enhanced learning, online and flexible pedagogy – acting as an educational developer to assist and advise staff who may have little experience of teaching online.  
  • To assist in the delivery of workshops and training sessions and deliver ad-hoc support in effective TEL practices. 
  • Supporting the fully flexible teaching delivery in the faculty and the preparation of online learning environments for subsequent academic years. 
  • To work effectively with academic and professional services colleagues in the faculty and across the college to ensure effective communications and drive improvements.   
  • To deliver a training and development programme for academic and professional services staff in the faculty, including induction provision. 
  • Contribute to the design, development and delivery of e-learning materials and workshops. 
  • To undertake ad-hoc ‘desk-side’ training of staff on relevant software and processes. 
  • To advise on the management of course structures, access and permissions and ensuring KEATS pages and My Reading Lists are well structured and kept up to date. 
  •  To support the implementation of appropriate procedures for managing and updating learning material, including managing staff access, quality assurance checks, and the annual rollover process. 
  • To update e-learning materials and KEATS pages as required, in accordance with school and college stated standards and requirements. 
  • Support the Faculty TEL Manager and internal project teams on TEL proposals/applications and developments. 
  • Actively liaise with other TEL staff across the college and faculty to enable exchange of ideas and experience including the design and implementation of new systems and increased efficiency. 
  • Maintain flexibility in their approach to work to contribute to Education Team tasks and projects when required, e.g., module evaluations and surveys and lecture capture. 
  • Any other reasonable duties as specified by the Faculty Technology-Enhanced Learning Manager, including deputising in relevant fora. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  
 
Skills, knowledge and experience 
 
Essential criteria

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • Experience of working in an administrative environment within the HE sector or a similar administrative environment.
  • Practical and detailed knowledge of the use of a range of functionality within a VLE (e.g. Moodle).
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with an ability to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders, both within and outside the organisation.
  • Experience of facilitating face-to-face training for staff and producing learning /training materials for different audiences.
  • Ability to work independently and proactively and as part of a team.
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
  • The ability to work to a high level of accuracy, with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Highly proficient IT skills (Outlook, Excel, Word) and the ability to quickly learn how to use new software/functionality.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience of supporting the development of online materials and content.
  • Experience of using video conferencing software in the delivery of teaching and learning resources (e.g. Skype, MS Teams, Kaltura, Echo 360).
  • Working knowledge of video editing programmes.

Further information 

  • The selection process will involve a panel interview (held online), which will take place w/c 5th July 2021.
  • The vacancy will be available from August 2021. 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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