Job Description

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Migration Coordinator

Grade - UE06 \xc2\xa330,619 - \xc2\xa335,308 (This will go up to \xc2\xa331,396 - \xc2\xa336,024 from 1st August 2023)

Website and Communications; Learning, Teaching and Web; Information Services Group

Contract Type - Fixed-term - 35 hours per week - 12 Months, Starting October 2023

We are looking for a motivated individual to support our web publishing community and help migrate their websites to our new web publishing platform. This is a great opportunity for early-career project management professionals to practice and experience coordinating a complex project and learn in a supportive environment in the central Website and Communications team.

The successful candidate will coordinate the move of over 150 websites from the University\'s current website content management system into our new web publishing platform.

This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

The Opportunity:

The University has a centrally managed website platform with over 150 live, high profile, websites. We are developing a new web publishing platform and need to run a complex migration project to move all the sites and their content over into the new platform.

We are looking for an advocate for great communication and customer service to make this transition for our website owners as seamless as possible.

It\'s an exciting time to join Website and Communications as we roll out our new Web Publishing Platform, signalling a change to the way the University publishes content. This role offers the chance to collaborate with colleagues from across the whole University and reinvigorate our publishing community about what content design is and what it can achieve.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Excited to work with our valued web publishing community to help them through the transition to the new platform
• Great communication skills
• Project planning experience and skills
• High level of IT literacy
• An organised and meticulous approach to complex tasks
• Experience of working and responding independently
• Understanding and respect for equality and diversity issues

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held on week commencing 04 September.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow\'s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

The Learning, Teaching & Web Services Directorate (LTW) brings together technology enhanced learning, e-learning, the University website, web services, graphics, multimedia, digital skills training and classroom technology teams to support learning, teaching and outreach for an enhanced student experience.

We provide a wide range of technology and support services for innovative learning and teaching, including classroom tools, virtual learning environment (VLE), blended learning, bespoke development, online video, open educational resources (OER), taught online Masters programmes, massive open online courses (MOOCs), feedback and assessment. We manage the continuing expansion and diversification of the University website, student portal, and provide digital technology services in 400 teaching rooms and study spaces across the campus.

Every year we host student internships, projects and events which promote innovation and align with the University strategic aims to promote new ways of working in learning, teaching and research.

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