Professional Learning Officer

**UE05 - £23,487 - £27,116 per annum (pro rata)**
**Moray House School of Education and Sport, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences**
**Open Ended, part time: 17.5 hrs per week (0.5FTE)**
We are looking for a Professional Learning Officer in Moray House School of Education and Sport, within the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.

**The Opportunity**:
This is an exciting opportunity to provide quality support for outward Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL) and Partnership activities for all areas of the School. You will act as project officer for partnership initiatives with external funders and ensure all CLPL and partnership activities are properly costed, and work with colleagues to ensure that relevant contracts are in place. You will liaise with external clients/funders and colleagues across the School in organising and coordinating the delivery of high quality CLPL and Partnership events.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- a commitment to excellence and high-quality service
- experience of working with a range of clients in organising the delivery of events
- proven ability to effectively and independently organise a varied workload

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
Moray House School of Education has been making a major contribution and impact to the field of education both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced, improved and transformed learning and teaching and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. Today, we continue to conduct research across all aspects of education and learning - from pre-school to higher education and lifelong learning. Our alumni include world-famous novelist J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, and Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE.

Moray House School of Education is the leading School of Education in Scotland - we are ranked first for both educational research and sport and exercise research, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. The REF also places us in the top five in the UK for educational research and top 10 in the UK for sport and exercise research, confirming our reputation as a UK centre of excellence in these fields.

The School’s five research clusters: Equality, social justice and inclusion; Pedagogy, learning and curriculum; Language, culture and communication; Digital education; Sport, physical education and health science supplement the work of research centres and groups and are aimed at fostering emergent areas of research excellence. We provide an outstanding learning and research environment, where students learn to become future leaders able to meet the diverse opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Above all, we focus on quality, whether it is in teaching, research or ensuring our students have the best student experience possible.