Digital Education and Innovation Manager

About the Department:

Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TaLIC):

We work in partnership with Goldsmiths’ staff, lending our support and expertise to the shared goal of excellence in teaching and learning. We are a team of learning technologists and academic developers supporting inclusive and engaging innovation in the curriculum, and providing effective development, recognition and reward for all staff involved in teaching and supporting students’ learning. We do this through a wide range of enhancement activities, including accredited courses, one to one support, events, online resources, the sharing of institution wide innovative practice, and bespoke workshops. We play a key role in enabling Goldsmiths’ strategic ambitions for education and the student experience. The Centre’s Director is Dr Fiona Handley, and there are currently 10 people in the TaLIC team.

For further details please see http://www.gold.ac.uk/talic/

About the role:

The Digital Education and Innovation Manager is a new role that will play a key part in developing Goldsmith’s approach to innovation in digital education as part of its Education and Student Experience Core Pillar. The role holder will line manage the TEL team, be the Business Manager for our suite of learning technologies tools, making key strategic decisions about the direction of their development. They will play a key role with the Director of TaLIC in shaping the College’s work on digital innovation in education, horizon scanning, liaising with external networks, and influencing colleagues internally, including on Gen-Ai, new hybrid learning environments, and digitally rich assessments. They will create links between digital capabilities, tools and environments and work in partnership with our providers to shape a distinctive Goldsmiths digital student experience. They will cultivate an institutional culture of safe and accessible digital exploration in line with Goldsmith’s commitment to creativity and criticality. Our ideal candidate will be looking to draw on their previous technical background for example as a Moodle LMS administrator, to develop their career in leadership in digital education, taking a strategic and holistic view of digital education development across the institution. The role holder will need to be exceptionally agile, have strong team leadership skills, and excellent communication skills to ensure change is effectively cascaded through the organisation.

Main Duties

• Contribute to the development and evaluation of strategies relating to digital education
• Lead and line manage the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team
• As the Business Manager for our suite of learning technologies, liaise with our external partners and IT&DS to lead on the maintenance and development of our technologies, especially our Moodle based VLE learn.gold and plugins
• Lead on planning the evaluation of the TEL team’s work
• Participate in, and lead where appropriate, relevant committees and working groups
• Develop and implement policies and processes, in collaboration where appropriate, to support effective, secure and accessible digital innovation in education.
• Work to meet TaLIC’s internal objectives based on its vision, the Performance Indicators of the Education and Student Experience Pillar, external metrics such as NSS, and contribute to the TEF.
• Ensure that all learning technology platforms meet regulatory requirements in terms of data protection, copyright and accessibility 

No agencies please.

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