Digital Education Officer

**Position Details**

Academic Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £28,397 to £30,210, with potential progression once in post to £33,938

Grade: 5

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 21st November 2024

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

**Background**

**Department Overview**

The UK Higher Education sector is changing in response to the shifts in the capacity, availability and opportunity offered by an ever-advancing range of digital technologies. The expectations of students and staff are changing continually, Technology-Integrated Learning is now an integral part of the overall student taught experience of their education.

To meet its ambitions to be a place of transformative education, the University supports staff in all aspects of their teaching through departments based within our Libraries and Learning Resources division, in Academic Services. The Digital Education Officer post sits within the Digital Education Team, represented by a ‘Head of Digital Education’ for each of our 5 colleges in our Edgbaston campus.

**Role Summary**

To work as part of a multidisciplinary digital education team to address the university’s strategic ambition to expand its portfolio and develop its digital education capability through targeted investment and more effective use of existing resources.

This role is considered as an entry point into a career path in Digital Education development and will incorporate a training plan accompanied by various continuous professional development opportunities to enable the successful applicant the potential opportunity to progress to more senior roles in Digital Education Development at the university.

You will have the opportunity to gain a high degree of personal responsibility and initiative which you will use to resolve issues; you will use your judgement to deal with unforeseen problems and circumstances. You will gain insight and experience in Digital Education development to support potential progression to a Digital Education Developer role after successful completion of training and probation requirements.

**Department Structure**

Reporting to the College Head of Digital Education (or their nominee), you will be a member of the College Digital Education Team as well as the wider Digital Education community represented in the five main colleges within the university.

**Main Duties**

In order to support the delivery of the Digital learning strategy, you will be required to:

- Provide expert guidance and collaboration on the design of pedagogically-proven blended and online learning within the institution.
- Work independently and alongside other members of the Digital Education Team, to make best use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Canvas and other relevant tools (including, where appropriate, in the creation of online