KIITE Senior Learning Experience Designer

Grade 8 Salary Range £46,974 - £56,021

(Incremental progression)

Agile working (blend of home and office based)

Job share would be considered.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Learning Experience Designer to lead the transformation of learning design across the Keele curriculum.

You will be a core member of the senior team within KIITE, responsible for developing and implementing a defined process to embed the roll out of learning design across Keele’s curriculum, scaling up and implementing the process across a varied range of provision in schools and faculties, ensuring flexibility is built into the provision.

KIITE is responsible for supporting educational delivery and evaluation through core functions of curriculum and learning design, learning technology and academic development. 

You will lead a small team of learning experience designers, providing mentorship and constructive feedback to the team throughout the process, drawing on your extensive experience in learning design and creative leadership skills to inspire the team to develop innovative, inclusive student-centred approaches to learning design. You will oversee project planning and resource allocation, manage performance and generate opportunities for staff development.

As Senior Learning Designer you will lead on learning experience design on high profile programmes and you will also lead on the evaluation of the effectiveness of learning design across programmes, making recommendations for changes to improve delivery to students.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, project management and collaboration skills and ideally experience in successfully managing change involving a broad range of stakeholders. This role will involve working closely with senior academic stakeholders including Directors of Education and within KIITE, the Senior Curriculum Designer to ensure curriculum expectations framework is embedded in module development, and the Senior Learning Innovation Technologist to enable the team to engage with potential opportunities for embedding innovative technology into module design.

The University recognises that its success depends upon the contribution and dedication of its talented staff. We have a competitive benefits package available:  

• Competitive rate of pay, annual increments within the grade  
• Generous annual leave entitlement: opportunities to purchase additional leave.  
• Excellent staff pension scheme   
• Access to continued personal, professional and career development   
• Onsite ‘outstanding’ nursery    
• Discounted health fitness facilities on site  
• Cycle to work scheme.

The starting salary will typically be at the bottom of the pay scale shown.

Keele University is renowned for its exciting approach to higher education, innovative research, beautiful campus, strong community spirit and excellent student experience. With a turnover in excess of £170 million, over 12,500 students and a total staff of approximately 2000, the University provides high quality teaching across a wide range of academic and vocational subjects and promotes world-class research. Please visit https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/

Keele University values equality and diversity across our workforce and to ensuring our staff community is reflective of the diversity of our student population. In support of these commitments the University welcomes applications from individuals of Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds for all roles.

For full post details please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/vacancies

Keele University employees wishing to apply should login to Employee Self Service and click on the 'View current vacancies' link.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Catherine Chambers: c.chambers@keele.ac.uk 

Applications to this address will not be accepted. 

Closing Date 22^nd October 2023

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