Digital Learning Manager
Job Description
About Us
UCL’s Organisational Development (OD) department offers extensive learning and career development opportunities to over 16,000 colleagues in academic, research, teaching and professional services. The Learning and Leadership Development (LLD) Team is a key part of Organisational Development, responsible for all aspects of learning and leadership development.
UCL currently has a hybrid working policy. You’ll be required to work in our Bloomsbury office 2 days per week, and definitely be present at one collaborative working day per week (usually Monday). UCL is a flexible employer and job-share and flexible working arrangements will be considered.
About The Role
In this job you’ll play a pivotal part in the digital transformation of our staff learning offer. You’ll shape, implement, manage and develop our offer to ensure alignment with our strategic goals, and provide engaging and impactful blended learning experiences with tailored user journeys.
You’ll use your expertise in learning design methodologies (including new and emerging approaches such as AI technologies) alongside your knowledge of adult learning theories to build and implement a digital learning approach that provides learners with enhanced learning pathways, and enables the OD team to provide accessible and high-quality online learning experiences.
You’ll lead on UCL’s portfolio of mandatory and role specific training, playing an essential part in ensuring this training is kept up to date, refreshed and in line with UCL’s accessibility policy. You’ll also have line management responsibility and supervisory responsibility for learning technology services provided by suppliers and contractors.
Working with members of the OD Talent team and stakeholders to ensure excellent service provision and cohesion across all parts of the university, you will help in ensuring a smooth transition to integrate existing learning management systems into UCL’s new digital platform and providing learning design and curation expertise to develop engaging learning and talent management content.
A full range of responsibilities can be found on the attached job description.
About You
To do this job you’ll need to have a demonstrable experience of digital technologies, systems and tools applied to adult learning and development. You’ll understand how web-based, multimedia and mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning pathways and outcomes. You’ll also understand the pedagogical, social and cultural issues affecting learning environments/technologies, and possess the ability to develop strategies to deal with them.
You’ll have proven experience of developing on-brand learning materials, and excellent project management skills, with the ability to drive high performance and measurable output within agreed deadlines and budget.
Please review the attached Job Description, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.
The deadline for applications is midnight on 2nd February 2025. We intend to hold first interviews week commencing 17th February. First interviews will be competency based and include a presentation and scenario-based exercise.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunity this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
On-Site nursery
On-site gym
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
Discounted medical insurance
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.
- download: Digital Learning Manager JD – Dec 2024 v2.docx