[education and IT employment]

New Job Database:
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), an international, educational organization reaching 75,000 professionals in Information Technology in Education and E-Learning, has launched a new Career Center to assist job seekers and employers in these fields.


*However most of the jobs, at least so far, are based in the States.


Have a peruse of the 10 most recent positions:

[employment: podcast developer at UCL]

I haven't seen one of these positions at a university before. Pretty forward thinking of UCL even if it is only a year long pilot project. But, there is the implication, should the project go well, UCL will require a permanent podcast developer.

Podcast Service Developer

UCL Information Services Division

1 year post (ref 54260)

UCL has embarked on a project to assess the feasibility of setting up a service to record, store and then make lectures available for viewing or download. This is known as the Podcast Project.

The project will involve the re-encoding and publication of existing media into various publication environments, and the creation of portable and fixed capture stations that are integrated into the Podcast Producer environment. The project is for one year in the first instance.

We are looking for an IT professional to join the Applications Development team in ISD who develop and support e-learning and multimedia web-based applications. A key aspect of the role will be building work flows for Podcast Producer and Episode. The successful candidate will be able to communicate fluently and present technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. This post could suit a new graduate with enthusiasm.

Salary will be on UCL salary scale 7 in the range of £31,620 to £38,250 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance).

Applications should be received no later than 5pm on close date.

Interviews are likely to be held on Tuesday, 9th December 2008.

To apply for the post, please download an application form and job description from ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/vacancies. )

If you cannot obtain these from the web, you can email is-jobs@ucl.ac.uk quoting the relevant reference number (above), or write to Information Systems, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Do NOT send a CV. For further queries, phone 020-7679-7357. No agencies.

Closing date for this post is 26 November 2008

[employment - lecturer in internet studies]

This sounds like a great post for all you internet researchers:

Lecturer, Internet Studies
REF: 4511
Closing: Monday, 24 November, 2008

Documents: Position Description Application Advice (Before applying for this position, please view the Application Advice document mentioned above) Apply Now
Location
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities
Bentley
Position Details
Academic, Full Time
Salary: $70,846 - $84,132, Level ALB
Conditions of Employment: "Employment at Curtin is governed by either an Individual Transitional Employment Agreement (ITEA) or a Certified Agreement. The University reserves the right to offer a position under an Individual Transitional Employment Agreement only"
Description Summary
(Full-Time, Fixed term – 3 years) This position will involve teaching, research and research supervision in the broad field of Internet Studies. It has a particular emphasis on the use of the Internet for communications and the relationship of the Internet with other media. The successful applicant will require a PhD in a field of research relevant to Internet Studies, be an active researcher while focusing on the Internet and being an experienced university educator. Benefits and Remuneration The salary ranges presented are those which are contained within the University’s Certified Agreements. An individual may negotiate an alternative salary arrangement under an Individual Transitional Employment Agreement (ITEA). Employee benefits include up to 17 percent employer superannuation contribution, study assistance, a comprehensive salary packaging program, and flexible and family friendly work practices in a cosmopolitan community at a convenient location. Eligibility Applicants must meet all essential criteria to be considered for the position. Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia for the duration of the appointment. Contact Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Associate Professor Matthew Allen (Head of Department, Internet Studies), on telephone +61 8 9266 3511 or via e-mail at m.allen@curtin.edu.au. To submit an application, please click on the Apply Now button. Alternatively, post your application to: Ms Angela Glazbrook Deputy School Administrator School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts Faculty of Humanities Curtin University of Technology A.Glazbrook@curtin.edu.au +61 8 9266 2509 Valuing Diversity and Affirmative Action Applications are invited from women and men who share the University’s values, ethics, international outlook, value diversity and have an informed respect for indigenous people. Curtin University reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at anytime. Closing Date: 5pm on Monday 24 November, 2008

[employment: lecturer in digital literature]

Although this position isn't called lecturer in digital lit., the job description more than suggests it:

Lecturer in Literature and Media Studies

Universiteit Maastricht Department of Literature and Art

Maastricht, 6200 MD (Limburg), 32 hours per week

Job description
Function title: AT2008.254.Lecturer in Literature and Media Studies
Your teaching duties will include courses in the BA Arts and Culture and the MA Media Culture, as well as in the liberal arts programme of the University College Maastricht. These courses will relate to literary and/or media studies, as well as our skills training programme in academic writing.

Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
PhD literary/media studies; Expertise within the field of the relations between literature and the new electronic and digital media; Publications in international, peer-reviewed journals; proficient in English, team player with a sincere interest in interdisciplinary cooperation.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Teaching & Research(Scientific discipline: Language & Culture)

Organization
Universiteit Maastricht
Department of Literature and Art
Universiteit Maastricht (UM) the youngest university in the Netherlands, is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Currently UM has around 11500 students and 3,000 employees. Reflecting the universitys strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of law, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology.

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000

Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 4284
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: two-year
Maximum hours per week: 32
Additional conditions of employment:
Female candidates are explicity invited to respond.

Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained through the following link:

• About the department (http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl)

Application
You can apply for this job before 20-10-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:

Universiteit Maastricht
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, HRM
dr.L. Wesseling
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
E-mail: pzfdcwvacatures@fdcw.unimaas.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber AT2008.254.

Further Details

[postdoctoral research fellowships at the ioct]

Two fantastic opportunities to work at the IOCT:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (two posts)

Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)

Three years fixed term

£29,138 - £31, 840 pa

You will work on ‘DMU Creative', a project which aims to provide a commercial showcase for the best creative work in the East Midlands by establishing a quality threshold and an advanced content management system. This project is funded by the HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund), which is an HEFCE funding stream designed to encourage and facilitate knowledge transfer, collaboration and outreach, in support of the development of innovative goods, services and policies. The undertaking or possession of a PhD is essential.

The two Research Fellows will work closely together to ensure a co-ordinated project. Responsibilities will include literature research, experimental work, software development, field trials, project documentation, seminar/workshop, technical/academic papers and laboratory support. The work will involve travelling within the UK.

Post 1 (ref. 5062): You will, in the first instance, establish a record label and associated internet radio station to connect with a large number of SMEs and micro-businesses working in music production across the region. This will be followed by similar endeavours in other fields of creative production. You will be based in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, which is a partner of the IOCT.

Post 2 (ref. 5063): You will undertake the creation of an advanced content management system that utilises broadband to bring the creative resources of the region together, to create a portal which promotes the regional creative works nationally and internationally, to establish by making them commercially available over a variety of connected devices, including TVs. You will be based in the Mechatronics Research Centre, which is also a partner of the IOCT.

Please quote relevant reference number.

Closing date: 7 October 2008.

Application forms and further details are available from our website: www.jobs-dmu.co.uk.

Alternatively telephone 0116 250 6433 (24 hour answerphone).

Or write to:
The Human Resources Team, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH.

[facebook and job-hunting politics]

According to Toni Bowers at Tech Republic, hiring managers are increasingly discovering the need to address "casual" communication (texts, e-mails) from potential job candidates. She notes:

"While text-messaging lingo might be completely natural to these young people — indeed, for some it’s the only way they communicate — they fail to notice that those in positions of authority (who tend to be older) find such methods of communication disrespectful."

Funnily enough in today's column, Bowers tells us about hiring managers who do the opposite, they actually send out friend invitations to potential employees....The job candidate in question explains:

"To be honest, my face is in no book, I have no space, I’m neither linked in, nor linked out. I just don’t have any interest in social networking."

Akward position? There are 20 comments so far that say so.

[all work and no play]

All work and no play is definitely something IOCTinis don't subscribe to! In between all the work and new technologies I have been able to pass on my transliteracy tiara (last used at the transliteracy workshop to make a transliterate object) to Lisa...princess of the IOCT.

[employment opportunity - lecturer art & design]

Senior Lecturer in Games Art & Design

This post is available as either:
One full time post of 35 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
OR
Two posts of 17.5 hours per week (0.5FTE), 52 weeks per year

£31,136 - £41,410 p.a. (pro-rata)
(Job evaluation pending)

As a key member of the Games Art & Design Course team you will contribute to the academic development delivery of the FdA/BA (Hons) Games Art & Design awards.

The successful candidate will be expected to have a broad understanding of contemporary context for Games development and design and will contribute to the learning, teaching and assessment within the FdA/BA (Hons) programmes.

As a practising professional, you will be active in research and knowledge transfer, using these skills to inform the quality of teaching excellence.

Reporting to the Course Leader, Games Art & Design, you will need to demonstrate experience of teaching at HE level, appropriate technical skills and knowledge and an awareness of the creative and cultural industries.

Closing date: 5th September 2008

Interviews to be held: 1st October 2008

For an application pack please email jobs@nuca.ac.uk or contact Human Resources on 01603 756243.

job opportunity - lecturer media & communication

Lecturer in Media & Communication

Interactive Media team

A wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University (Formerly UCE Birmingham), the Technology Innovation Centre (tic) is a national centre of excellence providing training and support for individuals and organisations to develop their capabilities within a rapidly evolving, technology-based society.

Starting Salary within the range £26,281 - £30,880
Permanent Post
Part Time - 18.5 hours per week

As a key member of our Interactive Media team, apply your skills and knowledge to develop, deliver and co-ordinate programmes of learning, technology transfer, applied research and business development.

Educated to Degree level or equivalent you will either hold a teaching qualification or be willing to study for one. With a good general skills and knowledge base of the overall television / new media production process you will have a particular demonstrable interest and experience in at least one and probably several of the following areas:

• Script development and screen studies
• Television Journalism
• Media and Communication Theory

Based at Millennium Point, Birmingham, the successful candidate will:

• Undertake responsibility for the development and delivery of undergraduate modules particularly in the TV Journalism, scripting and screen studies, Media and Communication Theory areas.
• Generate, support and supervise student projects and placements.
• Undertake appropriate quality assurance responsibilities for course delivery, assessment, evaluation and the students experience.
• Promote the Centre for Interactive Media and it's courses.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of short courses, consultancy and other income generating activities.
• Encourage, develop and sustain appropriate links with the Television industry.

tic offers employees private healthcare, childcare vouchers, a final salary pension scheme, flexible working and professional development.

For an application pack, please visit our website at www.tic.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively, you can e-mail tic Human Resources at Jobs@tic.ac.uk quoting reference number T00154 or phone 0121 331 7502.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 25th August 2008 at 5pm.

Further Details

[employment opportunity - virtual world learning]

Senior Research Assistant

The socio political impact of virtual world learning on higher education

Learning Innovation Group

£28,290 - £34,794 per annum

We are seeking an efficient, experienced researcher for a study funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The study seeks to explore ‘The socio political impact of virtual world learning on higher education' using participatory action research and will examine staff and students from a wide range of disciplines in Higher Education Institutions across the UK. It will investigate their conceptions of and decisions about the way in which they teach and learn at the socio-political boundaries of reality.

You will have a PhD in education or a related discipline and work closely with the Director of the Learning Innovation Group (Professor Maggi Savin-Baden) to ensure the smooth and efficient running of this study. This post will run for the duration of the study until starting on 10 September 2008, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post will be based at Coventry University, in the Learning Innovation Research Group.

Your experience will include working at a responsible level chiefly in a research environment and use of web 2.0 technologies and use of social networking platforms and familiarity with immersive world such as Second Life will be required. Reporting to the Director of the Learning Innovation Group you will undertake research and support the work of the PhD students appointed to on the project.

It is likely that interviews will take place on the 5th September.

[job opportunity - multimodal learning]

Research Fellow in Educational Design and Evaluation (0.5fte), London Knowledge Lab, Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy Salary in the range £28,290 – £30,013 per annum, pro rata

plus pro rata of £2,323 London Allowance

Fixed term for three years.

The London Knowledge Lab invites applications for a Research Fellow to work on the design and evaluation of a technology enhanced multimodal learning environment designed to scaffold children’s social interaction and communication skills.

The TLRP TEL funded project “ECHOES II: Improving Children’s Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in a Multimodal Environment” involves partners from the University of Edinburgh, Sussex University, University of Strathclyde, University of Birmingham, Dundee University, and University of Wales Institute Cardiff, and the position will involve collaboration with all project partners and associated research fellows.

You will collaborate in the design of the ECHOES II environment with other researchers, focusing particularly on the design and testing of the learning activities and the evaluation of the educational impact of the environment.

A Masters or a PhD in Educational Evaluation, Educational or Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related discipline or equivalent experience is essential, as are knowledge of empirical design methods, ability to organise and run studies involving children, parents and professionals and ability to analyse and report the results of the studies up to international research standards.Enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (K.Porayska-Pomsta@ioe.ac.uk).

This appointment will be subject to an enhanced CRB Disclosure.

Reference: 7AC-CPLKL-4664

Closing date:22^nd August 2008

To apply online please visit http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk or tel 020 7612 6159

Further Details

Click here for Employer Profile

[job opportunity - lecturer in creative writing]

An interesting position at University of Hull:

"Lecturer in Creative Writing, Department of English

A vacancy has arisen for a Lecturer to join the Creative Writing team in this RAE 5-rated department. You will be a prose writer with publications in fiction or non-fiction. Experience in teaching twentieth-century or contemporary literary topics at undergraduate level will be a distinct advantage. You will be expected to sustain and develop our existing undergraduate Creative Writing modules, participate in the Creative Writing MA, and assist in developing the activities of the University's Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing. Depending on the particular qualifications of the successful applicant, the post will also involve teaching on mainline literary modules in the English Department. A job-share arrangement might be contemplated, so joint applications or single applications for 0.5 of the post will be considered.

Salary range £29138 - £33780 pa.

For more information and to apply please visit www.hull.ac.uk/jobs, phone: (01482) 465272 (quoting vacancy ref: FA343), or for candidates with a hearing/speech impairment textphone: (01482) 466851. Alternative formats available on request.

Closing date: 1 August 2008"

[university of cambridge: transliterate-ish research associate]

Sounds like a kind of transliterate and transdisciplinary research position:
Research AssociateTranskills Project/ Staff DevelopmentThe Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies

Salary: £ 25,888 -- £ 33,780
Limit of tenure applies: 1 year, with possibility of extension by 1 year

A research associate is sought to contribute to the University of Cambridge's Transkills project. Working independently and with members of the Transkills team, you will use participatory research methods to identify effective modes of engaging academic staff teaching first-year undergraduates in professional development interventions appropriate to Cambridge's academic cultures. The Transkills project is funded by the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, an initiative of HEFCE, which will continue until the end of December 2010. The post is available immediately.

You will hold a PhD or have an equivalent level of research experience. Demonstrably capable of swiftly understanding the cultures and values of a research-intensive environment, you may also have experience of teaching, running seminars and workshops and developing instructional materials.

The Transkills team is based in CARET (the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies), and is led by Dr Keith Johnstone. Seconded to CARET, the Research Associate will report to Staff Development's Academic Practice Consultant, Dr Meg Tait. Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Johnstone (kj10@cam.ac.uk) or to Dr Tait (mebt1@cam.ac.uk). Further particulars and an application pack are available from Daphne Cunningham, Staff Development, 25 Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA (dlc39@admin.cam.ac.uk).

Application is by submission of a completed PD18, with a full CV and covering letter in which you should indicate how your qualifications and experience address the person specification.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 8 July.

Interviews will be held on Monday 21 July.

Further Details

Click here for Employer Profile

[job opportunity - assistant prof @ trinity uni, usa]

Multiplatform Journalism
One-Year Instructor or Assistant Professor
Fall 2008 / Department of Communication


COMMUNICATION: Trinity University. Instructor or Assistant Professor of Communication, one-year appointment, Fall 2008, M.A. or A.B.D. (Ph.D. preferred). Teach six undergraduate classes per year (9
contact hours per semester) with teaching responsibilities in multiplatform journalism (reporting, writing, and producing across media; and analysis of the challenges of convergence and technological changes) and either industry analysis (Mass Media) or textual analysis
(Media Interpretation and Criticism).

The department is integrated among media specialties and within the liberal arts and sciences mission of the university. The faculty is committed to linking theory and practice in our teaching, research, and service. Trinity University, a highly selective, primarily undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institution, has an ideal student-faculty ratio, and excellent facilities, equipment, and services. Salary: $40,000-$42,000.

Deadline for receipt of applications is July 1, 2008. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Send letter of application, *curriculum vitae*, three references, graduate institution transcript(s), and teaching evaluations if available to Dr. William Christ, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Communication, Trinity
University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200, email: wchrist at trinity.edu, Fax: 210-999-8355. Electronic submissions preferred. EEO Employer.