Department: School of HistorySalary: £42,405 per annum (pro-rata) (Grade 5)Reference: 2175Location: Mile EndDate posted: 3 May 2024Closing date: 27 May 2024
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About the Role
Applications are invited for a 12-month fixed-term Learning Technologist (Maternity Cover) in the School of History’s Teaching and Learning team, who are responsible for operational delivery of the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes. This role will be responsible for enhancing the use of learning technologies across the School providing expert advice, guidance, and support to academic and professional staff.
Reporting to the Teaching and Learning Manager, this role will be responsible for setting-up, maintaining, developing, and improving user experience for various E-Learning platforms, including developing documentation and relevant training. The role will also be responsible for managing School of History records on timetabling and student record systems, and overseeing management of the School’s Examination processes, plagiarism cases, assessment deadline extensions, arranging in-class tests, and supporting the School’s Examination Boards for UGT and PGT programmes.
About You
The successful candidate will have experience of using virtual learning environments, knowledge of learning technologies and skilled at working with computer-based record systems and be a critical and detail-oriented creative systems thinker committed to promoting continuous improvement and problem solving. They will also have good communication and organisational skills and be committed to supporting students and staff.
About the School
The School of History at Queen Mary University London is internationally recognised for its teaching and research. The School of History seeks to sustain and enhance its distinctive research and teaching profile, while ensuring a supportive and intellectually challenging environment. The School has ambitious enabling plans to deliver the Faculty and QMUL wide 2030 Education strategy.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form. Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.