About the role
We are seeking a highly experienced Digital Education professional and educational leader for the role of Associate Head of the Digital Education Team (DigiEd). Offering leadership and support on all aspects of digitally enhanced learning, teaching and assessment, the DigiEd team works with our four faculties and education facing professional services teams across the University. The DigiEd Team leads the implementation of our Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA) Strategy and develops high quality guidance, resources and training for staff to support excellent digitally enhanced education. The team also provides support for curriculum development around digitally enhanced education, collaborates closely with LEED colleagues on many of our educator development programmes and courses (including New to Teaching, our PSF scheme and Innovation Scholar Scheme), as well as co-organising the Annual LEED Learning and Teaching Conference for 250 of our educators.
As a member of the Digital Education senior team, you will have specific leadership responsibility for aspects of promoting excellence in Digital Education, ensuring that the team's objectives align with LEED's strategic aims and supporting and enabling the delivery of the University's Education and People Strategies. Specifically, you will line manage the team of nine Faculty-linked Digital Education Specialists, providing leadership of the DigiEd Faculty-link work and driving digital innovation in teaching, learning and assessment. You will be expected to build partnerships with external agencies and professional bodies to engage in collaborative work and enhance the University's reputation. The ability to deliver effective core provision across the range of DigiEd activities is essential.
About you
We are looking for a significant track record of leadership and delivery of digitally enhanced education with specific knowledge of Virtual Learning Environments and other applications for Teaching and Learning such as Adobe Creative Campus, Generative AI and accessibility platforms. You will advise and support the Assistant Director of LEED: Digital Education to ensure that the Digital Education team's activities are effectively aligned with the university's strategic aims and priorities and drive the implementation of the DELTA Strategy across our four Faculties. You will have the ability to develop best-practice guidelines and mentor others regarding:
1. Appropriate use of digital education technologies.
2. Embedding of digital education technology through effective curriculum design, development and deployment.
3. Effective use of the institutional Virtual Learning Environment and other digital tools in support of flexible active learning.
We are looking for evidence of the use of initiative, creativity and judgement in taking the lead to develop approaches to supporting and empowering our educators, as well as preparing reports and presenting at national/international level conferences. You will be a confident communicator, able to influence and persuade academic and professional services stakeholders.