Education policy adviser Teaching and Learning Services

Your responsibilities are flexible and you will take up duties in different teams of the department, depending on the needs and taking into account your competences and fields of interest.You might take up duties in one or more of the following domains :

• Providing teaching staff members and educational coordinators (teaching staff members, assistants, teaching teams, educational developers ...) with advice and support in the curriculum design, implementing (innovative) teaching formats and educational technologies in their teaching and on the design and format of their face-to-face and blended education.
• Providing teaching staff members and educational coordinators with advice and support on creating educational audio, video and animation projects.
• Supporting in the design and development of quantitative and qualitative tools to provide insights into educational data.
• Supporting working groups, policy bodies or committees in their activities. This can include preparing the content for meetings, drawing up policy texts, or organising the practical coordination, administrative preparation and follow-up for meetings.
• Stimulating the development of a quality culture across the institution and in all its study programmes through intervisions and dialogues with educational actors. Coaching programme directors and faculty policy advisers in the development of their own quality assurance system. Monitoring the quality assurance system and analysing potential risks in the quality of education.
• Monitoring one or more teaching and learning process (e.g. individual study programme (ISP), individual examination schedule (IER), student statuses, admissions policy, academic progress monitoring ...), and detecting needs and policy questions in the context of these processes based on data analysis or based on conversations with users. You translate these needs into changes in both the supporting IT-tools and the procedures. You streamline the innovative projects originating from these changes.
• Providing substantive support for your team operation within the department as a whole, according to the applied cooperation methods and in accordance with the planning system.

Teaching and Learning Services works on preparing, implementing and monitoring all aspects of educational policy at KU Leuven.From its university-wide position, Teaching and Learning Services combines activities which focus on : - teaching and learning processes- teaching and learning development- teaching and learning strategy.As a policy adviser, you will be engaged in one of the teams within those activity groups according to the needs, taking into account your talents and competences.Preferably, you are available soon for assignments on curriculum development, online course creation and lifelong learning. You will be part of an environment where collaboration within and across teams and units is very important.We always continue to look for ways to make our work efficient and strive for a flexible and adaptable work environment. Transparency, effectiveness, continuous improvement etc. are principles we hold dear.https : / / www.kuleuven.be / english / education / teaching-and-learning-services / Teaching-and-learning-servicesWe offer full-time (or 80 or 90%) employment for a period of 1 year with possible extension to an indefinite duration. If you are immediately employable in all assignments of this position, you will start in grade 7. Promising candidates who cannot yet take up all assignments immediately or who still need to go through a specific training programme, start in grade 6. Grade 8 can be granted exceptionally to candidates who can take up additional responsibilities from the start because of their extensive knowledge and experience in the field.