Assistant Director of LEED: Digital Education - (8991)

About us
The Centre for Learning Enhancement and Educational Development (LEED) leads Manchester Metropolitan's digitally enhanced education, academic development, and education innovation.  Our work is cross-functional, institution-wide and dedicated to improving education practice and innovation around the five themes of the University's education strategy. These are future-focused curriculum and delivery, excellent student experience, DELTA (Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment), excellent graduate futures and supported and empowered staff.

Our Digital Education team (known as DigiEd) within LEED utilises its wide-ranging expertise to help staff deliver a flexible, active and digitally-enhanced education to all students, drawing on best practice in our virtual learning environment and wider digital estate. Due to upcoming retirements, we are recruiting for two key leadership roles in the DigiEd team: Assistant Director of LEED (Digital Education), and we are also advertising for an Associate Head of Digital Education that will report to the Assistant Director.  Candidates are welcome to apply for both roles.

These are both exciting opportunities to provide effective leadership for LEED and to drive the ongoing success of the DigiEd team. If you can lead and coordinate this important work, this is your chance to join us and play a key role in the strategic and operational leadership of Digitally Enhanced Education across Manchester Metropolitan University.

About Manchester Met
We have been proudly driving progress for more than two centuries. As one of the UK's largest and most popular universities, we're a force for good, dedicated to delivering outstanding research and excellent education. Our community of over 5,100 colleagues work in close partnership every day to bring about positive change regionally, nationally, and globally.

Much more than a university, we are a place where ambitious people unite as a diverse and inclusive community to make meaningful connections. Where world-class facilities combine with exceptional minds to improve lives through innovation. We welcome those who are committed, talented, and hardworking. People who believe in our values and are as driven as we are to achieve shared goals.

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The role
Offering leadership and support on all aspects of digitally enhanced learning, teaching and assessment, the DigiEd team works with our four faculties and education facing professional services teams across the University. The DigiEd Team leads the implementation of our Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA) Strategy and develops high quality guidance, resources and training for staff to support excellent digitally enhanced education. The team also provides support for curriculum development around digitally enhanced education, collaborates closely with LEED colleagues on many of our educator development programmes and courses (including New to Teaching, our PSF scheme and Innovation Scholar Scheme), as well as co-organising the Annual LEED Learning and Teaching Conference for 250 of our educators.  

As a member of the LEED senior team, you will have specific strategic and operational leadership responsibility for the Digital Education Team, ensuring that the team's objectives align with LEED's strategic aims, delivering cross-team collaboration within and beyond LEED, and supporting and enabling the delivery of the University's Education and People Strategies. You will also be expected to build partnerships with external agencies and professional bodies to engage in collaborative work and enhance the University's reputation.  The ability to deliver effective core provision across the range of DigiEd activities is essential.

About you
Your significant track record in the delivery and leadership of digitally enhanced education includes co-ordinating the deployment of staff and allocation of resources, leading, motivating and supporting teams, coaching and providing performance related feedback, and ensuring continuous improvement. With significant experience in digitally enhanced education, Generative AI and staff development – including knowledge of digitally enhanced learning, teaching and assessment platforms and their application (e.g. Virtual Learning Environments, other applications for Teaching and Learning, Adobe Creative Campus and accessibility platforms) - you will lead the implementation of our DELTA strategy.   You will be an expert in flexible active learning approaches, able to collaborate effectively with senior leaders, faculties, departments, teams and individual staff at all levels.  Your expertise in digital pedagogy will enhance teaching, learning, and assessment through personalisation, flexibility, and choice in what, where, when, and how our students learn.

We are looking for evidence of the use of initiative, creativity and judgement in your development of approaches to supporting and empowering our educators, as well as preparing reports and proposals, presenting at national/international level, developing new partnerships and securing new income streams. You will be a confident communicator, able to influence and persuade senior academic and professional services stakeholders.  In addition, you will have strong digital education professional networks enabling you to draw upon and influence sector-wide best practice.

Further information

To make an initial informal enquiry, please contact Professor Fiona Saunders (Director, Centre for Learning Enhancement and Educational Development) at f.saunders@mmu.ac.uk

Applications must be made via our recruitment system and should include a full CV and a letter of application setting out your interest in the role and details of how your knowledge, skills and experience match the essential criteria being sought. Please state in your covering letter if you've applied for both roles.

Closing Date – Sunday 3 May 2026

Interviews will be held in person in Manchester on Tuesday 2 June 2026


Manchester Metropolitan University fosters an inclusive culture of belonging that promotes equity and celebrates diversity. We value a diverse workforce for the innovation and diversity of thought it brings and welcome applications from all local and international communities, including Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We support a range of flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and tailored schedules, which can be discussed with your line manager. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in your role, please let us know so we can provide appropriate support.

Our commitment to inclusivity includes mentoring programmes, accessibility resources, and professional development opportunities to empower and support underrepresented groups.

Manchester Met is a Disability Confident Leader and, under this scheme, aims to offer an interview to disabled people who apply for the role and meet the essential criteria as listed in the attached Job Description for that vacancy.