Digital Learning Officer

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that The Bart’s Cancer Institute (BCI) staff and students receive excellent guidance and support in their use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment. This role forms part of our Teaching Office team based at Charterhouse Square campus and is responsible for providing seamless support to the institute in order to enhance e-learning and distance learning provision. The role holder will support Postgraduate Taught, Postgraduate Research and Executive Education programs within the Institute, to ensure their successful delivery. The post holder will work closely with the BCI’s Education Manager, the Queen Mary University of London Digital Education Studio, and wider network of technologists, to ensuring the sharing of best practice and support the implementation of innovative solutions.

About you

You will have a good honors degree or equivalent work experience, a good understanding of the theory and practice of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and Experience of using virtual learning environments (Moodle expertise desirable) at administrator, designer/instructor and ‘student user’ levels of access. You will have experience working in a higher education institution and delivering educational development and training in the effective use of learning technologies.

About the Institute

The Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) is part of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) City of London Centre whose work aims to transform the lives of those with and at risk of cancer through innovative research in the laboratory, in patients and in populations. BCI is internationally renowned in many areas of cancer research and it combines ground-breaking basic research with the expertise of clinicians and clinician scientists.

About Queen Mary University of London

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.

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