The University of Ghana hereby invites applications from suitably qualified persons from the University for the following Administrative\/Professional position in the Department of Distance Education, College of Education:<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n POSITION:\u00a0Instructional Technologist and Designer<\/strong> GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The Instructional Technologist and Designer will work with the Sakai E-Learning Team and academic staff at the Department of Distance Education, School of Continuing and Distance Education (SCDE) to create and customize materials and multimedia for web-enhanced, blended, and online course in the University\u2019s distance Education (DE) programme as well as continuing professional development courses.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Instructional Technologist and Designer will work specifically with Lecturers from participating academic disciplines in the DE programme to design, customize, and produce course materials and resources reflective of SCDE\u2019s web-enhanced, blended, and online modules and programmes in the Sakai Learning Management system. He\/she will be responsible for uploading of multimedia, videos, podcast and interactive images for e-learning modules as well as modules designed for training educators in the field.<\/p>\n RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Assisting lecturers to design, customize, produce and update multimedia course materials and resources reflective of SCDE\u2019s web-enhanced, blended and online modules and programme Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n The successful applicant must:<\/p>\n \u2022 be a staff of the University of Ghana; SKILLS REQUIRED<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Strong technology skills, including but not limited to knowledge of Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, knowledge of Learning Management Systems and course design. Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n How To Apply For The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n Applicants are required to submit the complete application pack to the Registrar,\u00a0 University of Ghana via:<\/p>\n registrar@ug.edu.gh<\/strong>\u00a0(Soft Copy).<\/p>\n The application pack should contain the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Completed application form for\u00a0Administrative\/Professional positions (UAB Form 1B)<\/strong>\u00a0to be downloaded from the University\u2019s website at\u00a0www.ug.edu.gh\/hrodd<\/strong>. Closing Date:<\/strong>\u00a008 May, 2021<\/p>\n Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Ghana hereby invites applications from suitably qualified persons from the University for the following Administrative\/Professional position in the Department of Distance Education, College of Education: Job Description…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-eKX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nREPORTING TO:<\/strong>\u00a0Head, Department of Distance Education<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Copying course materials\/modules and interactive resources created in the Distance Education and E-learning Community
\n\u2022 Uploading content to build online assessments in the Sakai Learning Management System
\n\u2022 Creating and updating resources to train and support participants (i.e. students, faculty and staff) on how to use appropriate educational technologies in the DE programme and continuing professional development courses
\n\u2022 Train faculty, staff and students on the institutional LMS<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 have a good first degree plus a Master\u2019s degree in Educational Technology, E-Learning or a related field, from a recognised institution; and,
\n\u2022 have at least two years relevant post-qualification experience.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Strong writing, communication and interpersonal skills, and good judgement in communicating with University faculty and staff, representatives from external organizations and vendors.
\n\u2022 Must be able to think strategically to guide production projects.
\n\u2022 Demonstrated ability to use technology to support instructional objectives, such as live webinars software, rich media, lecture capture, video conferencing, screen recording software, Web 2, 3, and 4 tools, class-based tools such as interactive whiteboards\/smart classrooms.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 An up to date Curriculum Vitae with supporting educational and professional certificates.<\/p>\n