Digital Learning Development Lead
Location: Hybrid – UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary: £54,037 to £65,092 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37
Apply by: 19 November 2026, 11:55 pm
The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced education developer to join the Digital Learning Practice (DLP) team, on a full-time, permanent basis. We are based within UAL’s Learning and Teaching Directorate, a central service that works to enhance teaching and learning across the University. Working across Colleges, Institutes and Professional Services, you’ll bring people and expertise together to interpret the Education Strategy in the context of digital learning, and coordinate priorities across UAL.
You’ll critically engage with emerging developments in digital education to inform policy and shape institutional approaches. You’ll translate these insights into engaging professional learning, guidance, resources, and opportunities that support colleagues to make thoughtful, informed decisions about digital practice. You’ll also help shape critical conversations around the role of digital technologies, environments and practices in enabling, reshaping or constraining learning, teaching and creative practice.
Pre-application Webinar
We are offering a pre-application webinar where you can learn more about the vacancy, meet the team and ask questions.
Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
Time: 11:00 am (GMT)
Location: Via MS Teams. Please email agstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk for the online joining link
Your profile
You’ll be an experienced educational developer with a degree in a relevant education, digital learning or related discipline and substantial experience of working with digital learning in higher education or comparable contexts. You’ll also have experience of cultivating a culture of continuous professional development, supporting staff to engage with emerging pedagogies, technologies, and evidence-informed practice within higher education.
You’ll have demonstrable knowledge of contemporary digital learning pedagogies and emerging developments in digital education, including AI-enabled technologies. As a skilled communicator and collaborative leader, you’ll be able to build credibility and consensus with diverse audiences and influence across organisational boundaries. Most importantly, you’ll be curious, critically minded and able to connect developments in digital education with the distinctive context of creative arts education, while questioning their educational, social and cultural implications.
We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.
As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.
We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.
Application process
We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our application portal. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.
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