Av Designer and Project Lead

**Position Details**

Academic Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874

Grade: 7

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 27th January 2025

**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

**Role Summary**

The University is investing in the development of new buildings, many with a wide range of teaching facilities. In addition, the University is looking at the way it manages its AV signal distribution, and the expectation is that all AV equipment will eventually sit on IP networks. This major change in the way we operate requires a designer and planner who can devise the best configurations and protocols for our use of the network.

A skilled AV Designer and Project Lead will ensure that our high design specification standards will be maintained across the University. With each project, the post holder will ascertain whether the University’s needs are best served by using quality in-house staff or an integrator, and write a business case to support their findings and influence decision making.

The post holder will form part of a dedicated and technically proficient team of in-house AV professionals, experienced in implementing a range of projects across the University and providing expertise and support to the wider business.

**Main Duties**
- Be the University’s expert in AV design, specification, commissioning and testing, contributing expertise to development plans particularly with regards to new buildings or major refurbishments.
- An accomplished practitioner in technical system design and product specification, the post holder will prepare technical drawings and schematics for tender submission and subsequent compliance checking.
- Engage and influence decision making across all stakeholders including service users, the University’s Estates department, other technical departments and building contractors and their sub-contractors.
- Utilise specialist knowledge of innovation in teaching and learning technology to be an evangelist for its adoption in University teaching rooms.
- Work collaboratively with IT Services, contributing to the development and implementation of a high bandwidth dedicated network provision for AV across the University, allowing full remote control and diagnostics of equipment.
- Design, create and maintain a comprehensive AV and Teaching Room Design Guide, to be utilised by architects, project managers and contractors.
- Be part of the development team for new buildings on any of the University’s campuses.
- Manage the AV element of large projects. liaising with the AV Manager regarding the use of internal AV staff.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, support and advice on technology and systems to other Library Services staff in LRAT (Learning Resources Accommodation Team) and TAMU (Teaching Accommodati