Front End Developer – Teaching and Learning Service

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The opportunity

Digital & Technology at UAL is on an exciting journey, shifting from a technology-centric to a user-centric approach, investing in the people and processes enabled by digital and transforming the student and staff experience.

This Front End Developer role is an exciting new opportunity in the Teaching and Learning Product team, focused on enhancing our student experience and delivering new digital functionality, fine-tuning the user experience across our Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) and other Teaching and Learning products using your development expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

Alongside overseeing testing, documentation and code maintenance, you’ll get the opportunity to work closely with product teams, and under the guidance of the Development Manager, to deliver on our roadmap, ensuring the timely delivery of incremental improvements.

You’ll also be able to take an active interest in wider digital issues and emerging technologies and play a key part in contributing new ideas for enhancing our digital environment.

About you

Your profile will include:

• Strong programming skills in HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.
• A keen eye for UX/UI design with a focus on enhancing user experience.
• Experience in a shared web development environment with a good understanding of version control and testing.
• Ability to work within a multi-platform environment using tools such as WordPress and PHP.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 ‘AA’ compliance.
• Experience of working within agile cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Moodle’s architecture, themes, plugins, and module development is desirable but not essential.

UAL is a world-class university, shaping the creative industries worldwide, and staff have access to a range of benefits, training and personal development to recognise and reward the contributions they make, and to encourage excellence, creativity and diversity, including:

• Competitive salary package of £42,477 – £55,172 per annum, depending on experience.
• 34 days annual leave plus public holidays.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full maternity or paternity pay

For more information and to apply, please visit Hays Recruitment jobs board.

Hays Technology have been retained by the UAL to manage the recruitment for this role. For all enquiries, please contact Breanna Mahan via email at Breanna.Mahan1@hays.com.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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