Job Title: WEB APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER - University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Deadline Date: Open Until Filled

Starting Date:

Institution: The University of Central Florida College of Medicine was established in 2006 by the Florida Legislature and the Florida Board of Governors to address the growing physician shortage nationwide and provide economic benefits to Central Florida and the state.

As a new medical school, the UCF College of Medicine (COM) offers opportunities to students not available at any other medical school. Our Charter Class will be selected with care and will become a permanent part of our history and legacy.

Each of the first 40 students will receive a full tuition scholarship with living expenses for all four years. This is an unprecedented opportunity in the history of medical education.

Why are we doing this? Because our goal is to become the nation’s premiere medical school born in this century. And only with the best students, who become the best doctors, will we reach our goal.

UCF’s M.D. Program allows students to prepare for careers in every discipline of medicine and to focus on an individualized area of study or research. Your passion will become our passion.

The College is actively recruiting faculty and administrative staff. Join our team to take part in this remarkable journey. Find yourself in one of our exceptional career opportunities. What are your employment goals? The College is growing by the day, and you can begin or develop a most rewarding career.

For more information on our institution, please visit our Web site.

Job Duties: This position reports to the Assistant Director, Learning Systems within the Educational Technology & Support Services section of Planning and Knowledge Management.

Responsible for creating and delivering just in time training to faculty members and professional colleagues in course management systems and software.

Degree can be in higher education with a focus on educational technology, IO psychology, curriculum and instruction, instructional design, instructional technology, or other technical degrees. Experience with multimedia development and instructional design experience is very important.

Advanced computing, troubleshooting, understanding of course management systems and software. Software can include Online Web software selected by the College of Medicine, Blackboard, Tufts software, SharePoint, ePortfolio, HTML, Adobe products, Dreamweaver, Flash, Office 2007 products. PC and Mac.

Demonstrated skill and experience in training faculty and professional colleagues.

Strong analytic capabilities and good understanding of educational support that is important to academic health sciences, undergraduate medical education, basic science and clinical research, and clinical professionals.

Position engages and interacts with faculty members to assess pedagogical needs, provide pedagogical guidance and training and works collaboratively with faculty members to ensure the development of appropriate course materials including content presentation, content interaction and student assessment.

Position will assume project leadership in a team of course developers, graphic designers, multimedia producers, and course programmers to develop course materials for the College of Medicine. Some interaction will occur with the Online Web Services group in IT&R.

Position works with the Assistant Director for Learning Systems and others in the Planning and Knowledge Management to ensure faculty members experience seamless, consistent, and successful course development projects in a timely manner.

Position works with team of instructional designers, course developers and multimedia producers in Digital Media Lab at the Lake Nona campus in the COM to provide training and support of course delivery projects.

Position develops and delivers curriculum and training that incorporates multimedia and web applications.

Position analyzes, designs, programs, integrates, or modifies computer functions and applications including several programming languages to produce web sites and online tools that will be deployed as part of our Coll. of Med. courses. The person will need to use DreamWeaver, Pearl, Java, HTML, the Tusk software, SharePoint to take the faculty members' data and images and place them in their web sites, produce their web sites, and support their web site.

Position consults with College of Medicine personnel and faculty to determine necessary functions and applications of multimedia and online web resources for course delivery.

Position evaluates and assesses computer users' needs.

Position recommends hardware and software modifications to accommodate faculty members' needs.

Position maintains appropriate security and data access levels of users.

Position consults with other College of Medicine units in determining information system requirements and modifications.

Position may manage and supervise curriculum development team members.

Position interprets Planning and Knowledge Management departmental rules and policies related to educational technology services systems.

Position recommends new applications to improve information system functions; and operations.

Position designs, develops, and conducts special studies in the assigned functional areas of educational technology services systems.

For a detailed description, please visit our Jobs Web site. POSITION #39372

Qualifications:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree and one year of information technology experience.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS: The internal/functional title is Instructional Designer.

The College of Medicine is currently located in Research Park and expected to relocate to the Lake Nona Health Sciences Campus in Fall 2010.

WORK SCHEDULE: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Flexible as needed.

Salary/Benefits:
ANNUAL SALARY: $48,054 to negotiable (pay grade 7)

BENEFITS: For more information on our employee benefits package and compensation, please visit our HR Web site.

To Apply: In accordance with the University's policies and procedures, all applicants must submit a UCF Staff Online Employment application. Resumes are not accepted in lieu of an application. Applications are accepted for advertised positions only. You must submit an online application for each position for which you wish to apply.

Our job listings are updated every Friday. Applicants are required to submit proof of education for the position by the closing date for that position. Again, we appreciate your interest. We hope that you will visit the UCF Staff Online Employment website and complete an application, as well as upload your cover letter and resume in association with one of the open positions.

EEO/AA: The University of Central Florida is an equal opportunity, equal access, affirmative action employer and is always looking for qualified candidates to become a part of our growing team! Applicants needing reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact UCF HR Employment at 407-823-2771 or via e-mail.