Educational Advisor in Open and Online Education

Open and online education is the future. As an educational advisor, you allow as many people as possible all over the world to benefit from the scientific knowledge of TU Delft. You do this by guiding groups of teachers and student assistants (course teams) in developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for the Delft Extension School. Your role is not to develop content yourself: you are mainly involved as an advisor and idea provider. You provide your team members with the feedback, tools and educational insights to make their project a success. You use the palette of knowledge, templates, workshops and materials within your Teaching & Learning Services team. You are part of a young, committed and international team that focuses on training teachers and digitizing education and making education globally accessible.

You usually supervise about twenty course teams at the same time, with one requiring more or a different type of guidance than the other. By asking the right questions in work sessions and listening carefully, you will discover what your teams need and adjust your approach accordingly. You therefore largely determine what your agenda looks like. Development processes take an average of nine months to a year. You are often still involved afterwards, for example to answer questions about providing online education. To help teams further on their way, you also organize various workshops yourself, for example about online engagment, course design or presenting in front of a camera.

You will work together with other learning developers within the Teaching and Learning Services team - a committed and international team of about thirty colleagues, who focus on training teachers, providing didactic advice on various educational issues and in the field of developing online, open and blended education. In addition to these direct colleagues, you will often work together with lecturers and student assistants from all faculties: intelligent, headstrong people, who usually don't hide their opinions. Your challenge is to forge unity, to choose a clear course structure and to motivate your course teams to deliver products that everyone supports. You have an academic level of work and thinking, and a relevant degree.

We have opened this vacancy again due to growth in the team.

You have a Master's Degree in education, preferably in instructional design or educational technology or a comparable level, based on work experience.

• You have at least four years of experience in advising teachers and/or content experts in the development of online or blended education.
• You are well acquainted with the (im)possibilities of ICT in education and you have innovative ideas about digital and online learning, supervision and testing.
• You are enthusiastic, and able postively influence a wide range of people, who comprise the course teams that you supervise. Even in complex processes, you keep your spirits up and you motivate people.
• You can handle the dynamics of your work well and keep all the balls in the air, even when unexpected changes occur.
• You enjoy working in an international environment and switch fluently to English (the working language in our team and in most projects). Fluency in Dutch is a bonus, but not expected.

• Duration of contract is 1 year with prospect of permanent.
• A job of 32-40 hours per week.
• A salary based on schaal 11 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a minimum of € 3.974,- and a maximum of € 5.439,- gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

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