About The Role

Falmouth University's ambitious 2030 Strategy, ‘Doing it for Real’, is designed to deliver yet further growth in our student numbers and income through portfolio diversification, innovation, research and commercial ventures. It will establish Falmouth as the market leader for creative industries and entrepreneurship education over the next decade, capitalising on our considerable assets in innovation-led research and business incubation.

To help deliver our 2030 Strategy, we are recruiting a Production Manager to join our Digital Learning team. Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation this role will be responsible for overseeing, planning and managing the development of Falmouth University’s online courses.

Falmouth’s online portfolio has grown significantly since its launch in 2016; the ambition is to continue this strong growth trajectory and ensure that Falmouth’s portfolio is positioned to reach new markets and meet evolving student needs. Digital Learning are a specialist team within the institution who work with academic departments to develop courses for blended and fully online delivery.

This position is central to the continued development, enhancement and launch of our online courses. We provide a supportive flexible work environment with opportunities for development and growth within the role and a chance to shape our future direction in this space. This role will act in a project management capacity to develop and iterate the appropriate infrastructure to meet these growth ambitions; and will be responsible for the detailed oversight of the production of each module and course, including for ongoing maintenance and enhancement.

About You

The ideal candidate will need a strong knowledge of managing complex production schedules, and the ability to prioritise project plans and resources against agreed budgets. With a proactive approach, you’ll work closely and effectively with a range of stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of a variety of online courses.

Production focused roles within Digital Learning will report to the Production Manager, therefore experience of leading or working as part of highly effective teams will be essential for this position.

Alongside these key skills you will need outstanding organisational and communication skills, and although experience working within higher education would be advantageous, if you’ve got recent and relevant experience of production and/or project management, we can support you to apply your skills to a HE environment.

We are looking to hear from candidates who have the following skills/experience:

Strong knowledge of and experience in creating, recording and monitoring spending against agreed budgets.
Track record of leading or working as part of highly effective teams.
High level written, verbal and IT skills.
Ability to manage a substantial workload with conflicting high priority tasks and deadlines.
Ability to navigate high-pressured situations, identify problems and solutions and escalate as needed.
Ability to assimilate, convey and report information accurately

For further details on all the skills/experience required for this role, please see the full job description above.

We are able to offer a flexible working arrangement for this role, with fully remote offered as a potential preference and happy to discuss the arrangement at interview. If taking up the position remotely, the successful candidate would need to be based within the UK.

If you would like to have an informal conversation before applying, please contact Amy Sampson, Head of Digital Learning at [email protected]

The closing date for this position is Monday 10 April 2023.

About Us

As an employer of choice we can offer the successful candidate for this role a range of benefits, including:

- Employer Pension Contribution up to 12%.

- 35 days + 8 days bank holiday.

- Relocation Assistance to 10% of salary.

- Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)

- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay

- Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)

Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.

A successful external candidate for this position would be employed by Falmouth Staffing Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Falmouth University. Employees of Falmouth Staffing Ltd work alongside Falmouth University colleagues in the delivery of Falmouth’s strategic vision and will adopt Falmouth University’s HR policies and procedures in full. Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.

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