Learning Technology Specialist

Industry Category	Education / Training	Position	Education
Recruitment Department		Number Of Recruits	several
Work Location	All Cities	Nature Of Work	Full Time
Gender Requirements	Male	Marriage Requirement	No marital status restrictions
Education Level	Open to all levels	Work Experience	No work experience restrictions
Age Requirement	Above 18 years old	Salary Package	Negotiable
Updated Date	2022-09-27	Valid Until	Long-term validity

Note: Clicking on the 'Apply Now' button will redirect you to our Careers Page where you will be asked to create a profile to proceed with your application.We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

Due to our focus on self-directed, holistic approach to learning, we are looking for a passionate Learning Technology Specialist to join our fast-paced L&D Team in the UK, by being based in Manila as part of our Organisational Development Team.

Why should you join Cambridge?

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

What can we offer you?

The role is pivotal to the success of identifying and embedding, “In the flow” and self-directed learning. You will ensure the learning technology supports the current and future learning and development needs of the organisation and will ensure engagement of colleagues with the technology.

As part of a matrix team, you will provide subject matter expertise on how technology can support our products and ways of working, making recommendations on success indicators and metrics and seek continuous improvements through ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

On top of these, working with Cambridge will also give you stability. We show our care for our people by allowing them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work and you will be able to role model continuous learning and experimentation for others.

What will you do in this role?

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that's linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help you to identify the resources and learning you'll need to be empowered and take ownership of what you do.

Working in partnership with the L&D, OD Support and wider People teams, you will provide opportunities for our colleagues to upskill and reskill enabled by technology. You will drive the adoption of self-directed, social and just-in-time learning across the organisation by maximising the use of technology. With assistance from the OD Support team, support, guide and advise colleagues at all levels to help them to understand and fully utilise just-in-time learning techniques and technology and empower them to be content curators for their areas.

Other key responsibilities will include:

To implement, promote, develop and maintain Cambridge University Press & Assessment's learning technology systems & products and to effectively engage global stakeholders at all levels to understand and fully utilise the technology-based learning resources available to them as well as to create, curate and evaluate on-line learning resources, ensuring needs are rigorously identified and turned into practical and valuable learning interventions.Be a close contact with external Technology Partners to ensure monitoring and evaluation and understanding of our requirements.Working closely with people analytics, OD Support and L&D teams, develop metrics to effectively measure adoption and impact. Fully utilise the data to drive adoption and impact.To research and recommend new and innovative technology and use of technology to deliver an evidence based, holistic learning approach which includes; blended, on-line, social and self-directed learning.To adapt approach and resources to ensure they are inclusive and appropriate for our global EDIB communities.

What are the qualifications?

Good written and oral communication skills, including communicating specialist technical knowledge to a non-specialist audience and a demonstrable experience in interpersonal and stakeholder management is ideal. Qualifications related to e-learning and/or instructional design would be great, “real life” experience of some of the key areas identified in this advert and the job description would be even better. Ideally, you will have experience of working remotely, within a global matrix project team and with virtual learning environments. Experience or knowledge of forward thinking utilisation of e-learning technology and digital design in learning would also be a huge advantage.

Experience of working within the Education Sector, in a project or product team within an International organisation would be useful.

Having a keen interest in organisational learning and adult learning principles – and how tech can be used to support this, is essential.

In addition, experience, knowledge or expertise in the following are an advantage:

Skillsoft Percipio, Workday LMS, Moodle, Miro, Yammer, Kanban and/or other tech for social learning.Knowledge of self directed, holistic learning including social learning and Academies.Intermediate-advanced Microsoft office skills including MS Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BVI and SharePoint.Ability to identify success indicators and summarise data and create reports for monitoring and evaluation.Critical thinking and problem solving skills and initiative to use these; as well as a flair for design and an eye for detail and the ability to plan, organise own workload, and manage competing work agendas.

We help millions of people worldwide to open opportunities and unlock their potential.We are a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We’re driven by a simple mission – to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. And that’s why every year we give millions of people the support they need to unlock their potential.From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence and enable success in more than 170 countries around the world. We give people the opportunity to show what they’ve learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.We can achieve this because we are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of empowered people. A community that embraces change, and continuously focuses on meeting our customers’ needs. One that is flexible, by default. One that gives everyone the support they need to be bold and take ownership. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we’ll keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding better ways of doing things.#WeAreCambridge #PursuingPotentialOfficial Company Websitehttps://www.cambridge.org/Facebook Accounts• Global - https://www.facebook.com/CambPressAssess• Manila - https://www.facebook.com/Cambridge.Manila.PHInstagram Accounts• Global - https://www.instagram.com/CambPressAssess• Manila - https://www.instagram.com/cambridge.manila/