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OU Jobs Round Up - September-ish, 2007

There's quite a few OUseful and interesting related job opportunities open here at the moment, so here's a quick round up:

• Professor in Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Technology: The Open University is to appoint a Professor to a new department that will be formed from the merger of the current Departments of Information and Communication Technologies; Systems and Technology Management. The new department will have particular strengths in the socio-technical and the business aspects of technology. Within this context the successful candidate will play a leadership role in the teaching and research of ICT. This is an outstanding opportunity for a visionary leader to build on the strengths of an existing discipline within a new, broad and forward-looking context.

  Applicants will have an enthusiastic commitment to ICT education and will demonstrate strengths in at least one of the research interests of the current Department of Information and Communication Technologies: ICT in life; ICT for work; Education and ICT; the modelling and theory of ICT and the history of ICT. [£65k - think they'll give it to me? Nah - neither do I! ;-)]



• Manager (Broadcast Project Impact), Open Broadcasting Unit (OBU): OBU is central to delivering the objectives of the OU partnership with the BBC. You'll be responsible for those aspects of the relationship with the BBC that relate to performance monitoring. This includes setting targets for, monitoring and reporting on the impact of TV and radio broadcasts, print support and online components.

  You will work with OBU and BBC colleagues on particular projects and with a wider range of people in both organisations on strategy development and implementation. Excellent negotiating and communication skills are essential along with the ability to use your initiative to anticipate problems and provide solutions. You will have excellent IT skills and a good understanding of IT developments in the broadcast media, such as i-tunes, YouTube and web analytics. You will need an awareness of current broadcasting developments and factual programming both on TV and radio, and an interest in the aims of the partnership between the OU and the BBC.



• Media Project Managers, Learning & Teaching Solutions (LTS): Do you have an excellent record of managing media production and building successful relationships with clients? You will lead a team of media specialists working on a portfolio of distance-teaching courses.

  Reporting to the Media Account Manager, you will manage the development, production and maintenance of teaching materials across a range of media, from early planning through to the finished product. You will work closely with academic and media production staff on specifications, product development and delivery of course materials to quality, time and budget.



• Programmer/Web Developer, Institute of Educational Technology: We're looking for a programmer to join a small IT team working within the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. The work involves building, supporting and maintaining web-based services for the Institute over a two year period. The work will be both challenging and rewarding and will involve specifying and delivering services, applications and database driven web environments for the University. We need an enthusiastic individual who can hit the ground running to join our team and take on this important role.


• Web Developer, Institute of Educational Technology: We're looking for a web developer to join a small IT team working within the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. The work involves building, supporting and maintaining web based-services for the Institute over a one year period. The work will be both challenging and rewarding and will involve specifying, creating, supporting and maintaining database driven websites for the Institute. We need an enthusiastic individual who can hit the ground running to join our team and take on this important role.

As ever, I have absolutley nothing to do with the appointment of any of the above. If you go for any of them, feel free or not to mention where you saw the ad, ping for for a coffee when you're on campus etc...