Learning Technologist; Moodle Service

Role

Title:

Learning Technologist (Moodle Service)

Grade and Salary: Grade 7, £38,448 - £48,337 per annum

FTE and working pattern: Full-time (35hrs per week) Open-ended

Reward and Benefits
: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff. Use our total rewards calculator:  to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.

Library, Learner and Academic Spaces is part of the Global Information Services Directorate and brings together teams delivering a wide range of academic, digital and learner support services across the University’s campuses and modes of study, supporting Heriot-Watt University’s Strategy 2035 ambitions.

These integrated specialist services support the University’s digital education ambitions and include learning technology and design, virtual learning environment development, IT training, learner advice, audio-visual support, media production and academic library services.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the development and delivery of Heriot-Watt University's digital learning platforms. The Learning Technologist will provide specialist learning technology expertise and technical leadership for the establishment, implementation and continuing development of a Moodle-based learning service supporting the Scholar 2.0 programme.

The role will lead defined areas of service design and implementation and will support the migration of learning content, assessments and digital assets from the existing Scholar platform to a sustainable, supportable and scalable Moodle environment.

Working with academic colleagues, technical teams, professional services, implementation partners, suppliers and partner institutions, the postholder will translate educational and service requirements into effective technical and operational solutions. The role will make recommendations and exercise independent professional judgement within agreed institutional, architectural, security and project frameworks.

The postholder will be responsible for delivering assigned work streams and for contributing materially to service readiness, testing, migration, documentation, staff capability development, adoption and transition into business-as-usual operation.

• Lead defined work streams concerned with the establishment and implementation of the Moodle service for Scholar 2.0.
• Analyse educational, technical and operational requirements and translate them into appropriate Moodle configurations, workflows and service solutions.
• Work with internal technical teams, academic stakeholders, hosting providers and implementation partners to configure and optimise Moodle.
• Provide specialist recommendations on the selection, configuration and effective use of Moodle functionality and associated learning technologies.
• Contribute to solution design, testing, deployment, acceptance and operational-readiness activities.
• Support the implementation and testing of authentication, Single Sign-On, account provisioning, data exchange and other agreed integrations.
• Evaluate specialist educational technologies, including online assessment tools such as STACK or equivalent platforms, and recommend solutions against agreed requirements.
• Identify technical, educational and operational dependencies and elevate material risks through the appropriate governance arrangements.
• Ensure that agreed configurations and processes take account of accessibility, usability, information governance, security and service-support requirements.
• Develop and maintain the Moodle service following its transition into business-as-usual operation.

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