Join our media team, collaborating with academics and learning designers to develop effective, engaging, and sustainably produced moving image and audio resources for courses delivered fully online.
Title: Digital Media Producer
Grade and Salary: Grade 7, £37,694 - £47,389 per annum
FTE and working pattern: Full-Time, Open-Ended
Heriot‑Watt University has been a pioneer in distance, blended and online education for three decades, and has over 9,000 online students across the world. Heriot‑Watt Online draws on expertise from schools, professional services and partnerships to deliver high-quality, fully online programmes, often at large scale.
The Digital Media Producer will work closely with academics and Learning Designers to develop effective, engaging, and sustainably produced digital media for courses delivered asynchronously, fully online, often at large scale.
The successful candidate will have hands‑on experience of the entire pre‑ to post‑production lifecycle— from planning to recording and directing through to editing and publishing—and will possess outstanding communication and technical skills. They will be creative and passionate about digital education and will thrive as part of a highly collaborative team.
Experience in education is particularly desirable, but you may come from a background in video production, filmmaking, broadcasting or animation. Above all you must be passionate about working with factual material, work well with subject experts and others unfamiliar with media production, and be able to communicate complex ideas through creative approaches to moving image and sound.
Location: All Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, International. The successful candidate will be required to work on‑campus for 3 out of 5 working days per week and the position is based in Edinburgh (UK).
Applications can be submitted until 23:55 on Thursday 14th May 2026.
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