Digital Learning/E-Learning Platform Manager
The Girls' Day School Trust
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- £40,000-50,000 FTE with potential progression to £56,000
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2016 or as available
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2016
Job overview
Reports to: Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
The Girls’ Day School Trust is seeking to appoint an innovative, dynamic Digital Learning/E-Learning Platform manager to support the use of digital learning platforms and technologies to enhance teaching, learning and collaboration across our network of 24 schools and two academies.
Working closely with the Head of Learning Technology and Innovation, the Digital Learning Platform Manager will manage, support and provide training in key GDST digital learning platforms, including the Firefly Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Planet eStream media system, and our new teacher collaboration platform. In addition, the post-holder will support schools with their use of Google Apps for Education, the Apple education ecosystem, and a range of other digital learning systems and will be responsible for identifying and investigating new digital learning solutions that could be used effectively within the GDST.
This role will provide an excellent opportunity to work across a range of schools with forward-thinking staff and students. The role would be suitable for someone with teaching experience or someone from a more technical background who has experience working in a support role in an education environment. Experience in the platforms used by the GDST is not required, but applicants should have experience and expertise working with a range of digital learning platforms and solutions.
The role could be part time / flexible to sit alongside a teaching role, for example, but could also be full time for a candidate with suitably broad experience; there is the opportunity to be involved in a range of different areas depending on candidates’ own interests, for example Computing teaching, eSafety, digital skills curriculum development and more.
Potential candidates are welcome to contact the Head of Learning Technology, Cat Scutt, for an informal discussion about the role on c.scutt@wes.gdst.net or 0207 3936739. To apply for the role, please complete a GDST application form and submit this to c.scutt@wes.gdst.net by 9am on Wednesday 18th May. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 23rd May.
Please visit our website by clicking 'Apply' to download a GDST application form and a full Job Description and Person Specification for the post.
GDST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About The Girls' Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools). Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
Working with the GDST
Many teachers have never contemplated working in the independent sector, yet every year teachers join the GDST from the maintained sector, or as NQTs, and are pleasantly surprised by both the similarities and the differences.
The GDST provides an excellent range of employment opportunities throughout England and Wales. GDST staff benefit from our 140-year history of excellence and innovation in girls’ education, with many opportunities to share ideas and best practice with colleagues across the network. They have access to an extensive central training and professional development programme to complement school-based INSET, and also funding grants for individual courses of study.
Competitive salary scales and other excellent conditions of service are standard across the GDST, and employees have access to pension schemes and a range of other staff benefits.
The GDST is committed to the safeguarding of children, and child protection screening applies to all posts.
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