Digital Adoption and Engagement Specialist

Location: Other
Salary: starting from £44,577 per annum inclusive of London Weighting
Post Type:  Full Time
Post Type:  Fixed Term
Contract Length: 36 months
Closing Date: Monday 09 October 2023
Interview Date: Wednesday 01 November 2023
Reference: 2475-23-PS

University of East London

We’re the University of East London (UEL) founded in 1898 and proud to change lives through education. Our goal is to advance industry 5.0 careers-first education and provide a clear path to the jobs and opportunities of the future. We’re committed to driving diversity in the 5.0 talent pipeline, working in partnership to promote talent wherever it is found and crafting a balanced, inclusive, and green future.

About the Job

The Digital Adoption & Engagement Specialist working within the Digital Adoption & Engagement Team (DAET) is responsible for delivering and embedding the adoption, engagement and training strategy in support of the University’s Digital First Transformation Strategy. The focus of the DAET is to bring to bear available technology to improve investment costs and ROI, ensuring employees, students and other customers can use and are exploiting the functionality of our digital investments.

You will:

• assist the team leader in developing positive relationships between UEL’s IT Services and our business customers both internal and external.
• work with the team leader to resolve digital development issues and assist in positioning the DAET as key enablers to support the University’s Digital Transformation programme.

A key responsibility for the post is the development of blended learning tools either through the creation of learning resources or through the signposting to already established and available resources.

About You

You will have substantial experience and knowledge of IT practice and application and designing and delivering IT training. You will a degree level qualification in a relevant subject, or proven and significant equivalent experience. In addition, you will hold a PRINCE2 certification or an equivalent project management qualification or experience.

Benefits Package

Here at UEL we understand it’s about more than just a salary. It’s about the entire package on offer along with our outstanding work environment and inclusive culture. We know the market rates for this vacancy and will offer a genuinely competitive salary DOE.

We care deeply about your wellbeing and our benefits includes: 20% pension (4% from you, 16% from us), 25 days holiday (plus 3 days closure over Christmas) plus bank holidays, hybrid working for most positions, and we’re always open to consider flexible working arrangements. We have a shared success bonus of £4,250 pa, subsidised gym membership, 3 times base salary life assurance, a cashback healthcare scheme and wide variety of other generous benefits including discounts on; Apple and Samsung products, holidays, clothing, fitness, lifestyle, dining out and weekly shopping.

Equal Opportunities

UEL is an inclusive equal opportunities employer and are proud of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity achievements, including: zero gender pay gap, members of Stonewall and have won Athena Swan awards. We expect all employees of UEL to accept our EDI policy and will not tolerate discrimination in any form.

We're a disability confident employer and value all applications. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.

So, if you’d like to take your career to the next level with us here at UEL and are passionate about our environment and commit to success, we want you to apply today!

Further details:    Job Description & Person Specification    

To contact the recruitment team please phone +44 20 8223 3000 x 4600 or e-mail hrhub@uel.ac.uk

CVs without a completed application form will not be accepted.

At UEL we are committed to working together to build a community which values diversity in both our staff and student populations, is representative and inclusive, enabling all to progress and thrive.