Specialist Technician (Learning and Teaching): Analytics and Forecasting – UAL Careers

Specialist Technician (Learning and Teaching): Analytics and Forecasting

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Vacancy Id: 9687

College / Service: London College of Fashion

Location: LCF - John Prince's St, London UK

Salary: £37,532 - £45,865 pro rata pa

Contract: Permanent

Term: Part time – 28 hours per week

Apply by: 15 June 2023 at 23:55

 

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The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an Analytics and Forecasting software specialist to join a leading college in fashion education and play a key role providing technical assistance to students and staff to support the day-to-day operation of our excellent teaching and learning facilities.    

You will be working predominantly from home supporting students online and working with the course leader and academic team for the MSc Fashion Analytics & Forecasting course. This MSc is currently the first Master’s programme in the world to apply data analytics and forecasting in the context of fashion business.    

Reporting to the Technical Coordinator, you will be part of a specialist technical team responsible for delivering technical workshops and software support to students and staff online and in-person.   

You will provide professional expertise, guidance and advice to students and staff working with analytics and forecasting software and contribute to the delivery of academic activities within the College. Such tools currently include Qualtrics, R Studio, IBM SPSS Statistics, Microsoft’s SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI, and Adobe In-Design.  The list is regularly reviewed with industry partners to ensure currency.   

In addition, you will also provide support for student learning through informal and formal training and instruction. A key part of the role will be to contribute critical input to student concept and expressive/creative intention, including giving feedback to students and contributing to student formative assessments.   

The start date for this position is 01 August 2023 onwards.

About you

You will need a high level of multi-platform, multi device digital literacy, with demonstrable contemporary and forward-thinking expertise in data visualisation, machine learning, time series analysis and forecasting, quantitative methods, and statistical data analysis.   

You will also need experience of delivering technical workshops and providing 1-2-1 support for analytics and forecasting software issues as well as experience of working in experience of working in data visualisation and machine learning. 

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.

Vacancy Id: 9687

College / Service: London College of Fashion

Location: LCF - John Prince's St, London UK

Salary: £37,532 - £45,865 pro rata pa

Contract: Permanent

Term: Part time – 28 hours per week

Apply by: 15 June 2023 at 23:55

 

Please read through our FAQs page before applying.
A full copy of the job advert along with other information (such as interviews date, hiring process etc) is available by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button below.

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