Learning Technologist

This is a great opportunity to join the Library Services learning and teaching support team. As the Learning Technologist for the department, you will contribute to the successful delivery of the library's Information and Digital Literacy teaching programmes, working closely with library liaison teams, Faculty Educational Technology (EdTech) teams, and academic and teaching staff across the university. You will support the learning and teaching remit of Library Services in providing a holistic programme encompassing a range of information and digital literacy skills and competencies, which is delivered in line with the university's Learning and Teaching Strategy. Library Services works in collaboration with academic departments, EdTech teams and other units to strategically integrate its offer into taught courses across the university. Working with library staff with teaching responsibilities you will provide essential expertise in learning design and development of learning and teaching content. You will be responsible for the design, delivery and implementation of appropriate digital technologies for teaching and training activities across all student levels (undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research), and provide advice, guidance and training where necessary to library staff. You will have a wide portfolio of work including :

• Planning, developing, and deploying innovative online learning resources
• Providing learning technology support for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement on online learning content
• Supporting library staff in their use of e-learning technologies, including VLEs, lecture capture, personal response systems, and multimedia authoring software, where appropriate
• Evaluating the effectiveness of learning resources and technologies used in teaching, including developing feedback mechanisms, the collation of statistics, data analysis and report writing
• Advising library staff in the development and use of process maps and roadmaps for the delivery of technology projects
• Contributing to the development and delivery of advocacy material for learning and teaching initiatives
• Championing good practice for inclusive pedagogy across the Library
• Keeping up to date of developments in learning technologies in HE and beyond in order to improve and enhance learning technologies support provision, for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff,
• for staff with disabilities
• for LGBTQ+ staff
The provides advice, guidance and training for all staff to raise awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion, with senior leadership support including that of the Associate Provosts for EDI. Library Services have hosted internal staff events focussed on the topic of decolonising the curriculum and what that means for libraries and library staff.
• There is an online channel where staff share readings and events.
• Library staff have collaboratively developed a visualisation tool to raise awareness of geographic bias in reading lists, and co-deliver a workshop which encourages discussion of reading lists and the curriculum for academic and teaching staff.
• Library staff work with Imperial As One to support and maintain the Imperial As One reading list.
Library staff are actively encouraged to attend external and internal training and development events on equality, diversity and inclusion.
• There are internal talent development programmes : for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff or those who identify as being from a minority ethnic group, and for disabled staff.
• The staff training programme includes a key module on equality, diversity and inclusion.
The university has which are available to staff irrespective of gender identity, sexual orientation, gender expression, biological sex or if you are transitioning.

You will have a proven track record of supporting teaching, learning and assessment with technology, ideally in a higher education environment and :
• Proven ability to work as part of a team in the management and successful delivery of project outcomes
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to track multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise own work.
• Excellent skills in the use of technologies relating to teaching, learning and assessment : these may include, for example, HTML, CSS, Articulate, Panopto, Blackboard Learn, Coursera, Qualtrics, LaTeX
• Excellent general IT skills, knowledge of Office 365 and administrative abilities