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Online IT Instructor
£28,927.46 pro rata per year | Flexible/Fully remote option/variable hours contract | 12 Months Fixed Term | Approximately 14 hours per month but may be more.
Closing Date: Thursday, 30 March 2023
Other Benefits
Ø Role can be fully remote
Ø Flexibility to agree availability for work
Ø Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
Ø Up to 45 days annual leave Pro Rata (including bank holidays and college closure dates)
Ø Opportunities for career progression and personal development
Ø Access a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits inc. Cycle to Work, Bike Shop, Home & Electronics Lifestyle Saves and Employee Assistance Programme. Option to pay into Shared Cost AVC’s
What’s the Job?
We’re looking for an IT Instructor to join our Commercial Development and Delivery team to be responsible for delivering a variety of Microsoft courses online for businesses and individuals, including certificated and bespoke courses. The courses will be delivered using MS Teams so they can be delivered from home or College premises. All equipment required for delivery will be provided.
The Commercial Development and Delivery Team are responsible for delivering a variety of professional qualifications, including certificated and bespoke courses, in a College that aims to be one step ahead.
Who we’re looking for
You will have an IT background and have expertise using a variety of Microsoft Office packages such as Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Teams, Outlook etc with relevant experience and/ or qualifications equivalent to SCQF Level 7 or above. We embrace diversity here at Dumfries and Galloway College and welcome applications from across our community.
You will be experienced working with a variety of Microsoft and other IT packages and capable of developing and delivering high quality online training. While representing the College, you will offer high quality customer service in all you do.
We’re looking for a professional and creative team player, an individual who understands commercial course delivery, who knows how to get things done.
To succeed in the role, you will have some or all of the following:
· You will be educated to SCQF Level 7 or have relevant skills and experience in MS Office Packages
· Experience of working with MS Office packages at an advanced level is essential
· Experience of delivering training courses online is desirable
· Good/ Excellent knowledge of the subject, creative thinking and problem solving abilities
· Strong customer service, organisation, teamworking and relationship building skills.
· Good/ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
· This post can be fully remote. The successful candidate will of course always be welcome to attend Campus for training and face to face events/ meetings should they choose to.
Who we are
Dumfries and Galloway College the biggest provider of education and training in the south of Scotland. We’re a further and higher education college and a leading voice in green skills development to help tackle climate change. We’re also the small institution winner of the UK and Ireland’s Sustainability Institution of the Year award for 2020.
With campuses in Dumfries and Stranraer, we are one of the main employers in the region, employing a few hundred staff in roles intended to help attract, retain and deliver for our learners.
We strive to equip all members of our college community with the skills, knowledge, and practical experience they need to get ahead, whether that’s moving further into education or going onto employment.
How to apply
If you are interested, please complete the online application form via the Dumfries and Galloway College website by the closing date indicated below.
For further information, please contact Jackie Kelly, Short Course Co-ordinator or Alison Jardine, Commercial Training, Development and Delivery Manager (see website for contact details)
Closing Date: 30th March 2023
What happens next
Interviews for successful applicants will be held on a date to be confirmed week commencing 17th April 2023. Interviews will be held using MS Teams.
What else you need to know
If you’re invited for interview, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.
If you’re successful in securing the role, your employment will be conditional on the college receiving two satisfactory references and background checks.
We also require all members of staff to either already be or be willing to become a member of The Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership scheme, which is managed and delivered by Disclosure Scotland.
