Digital Learning Manager

This role leads digital learning innovation, integrating immersive technology in education, supporting staff and students’ digital skills, and managing a team to deliver high-quality, immersive experiences aligned with the College’s goals.

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Job Details

We are seeking a dynamic and innovative individual to enhance learning across our College Group through the use of digital technology. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with managers, academic staff, and other stakeholders to provide expert advice, organise technical and teaching facilitation, and deliver operational support. This role is pivotal in advancing the use of immersive environments and virtual reality within the College, ensuring that our digital learning technologies contribute to an exceptional student experience.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-college digital projects, effectively managing resources and engaging with stakeholders.
  • Provide external training for other educational institutions and training providers.
  • Represent the College as a speaker at digitally-focused conferences.
  • Collaborate with academic staff to develop high-quality digital resources.
  • Organise and deliver digital upskilling programmes for College staff.
  • Demonstrate immersive learning technologies to prospective clients.
  • Manage and support Digital Learning Technologists, ensuring team success.
  • Lead day-to-day operations of immersive learning environments across campuses.
  • Provide technical troubleshooting, ensuring minimal disruption to teaching.
  • Foster creativity and innovation in the use of digital technologies to enhance learning.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Team to develop targeted training initiatives.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of learning technologies and best practices.

Job requirements

  • Proven ability to work at degree level, preferably in IT or digital skills.
  • IT qualifications.
  • Degree-level education or above.

The right candidate will have:

  • Experience in learning technology and enhancing teaching through digital tools.
  • Strong general digital skills, including Microsoft Office.
  • Experience writing training materials and delivering training.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational capabilities.

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.