Career in LMS Services Group

Job Title: LMS Project Director

Experience: Minimum 10 years relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 30 - 50 years

Qualifications & Experience:

• Masters degree in IT or management or equivalent experience/training
• At least 10 years professional management experience
• Some IT experience like developing and implementing online educational courses
• Experience with IT methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with financial justification of projects/products
• Strong organizational skills for development, management, and coordination of multiple projects/schedules
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite of products (Advanced skills with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.)
• Demonstrated project management skills, attention to details, ability to work independently in a lead role, to work on multiple projects and manage competing deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels within organization, as well as external vendors
• Strong leadership capabilities

Added Qualifications

• PMI certification
• Experience in LMS development
• Advanced level E-Learning Strategies and implementation and development methodologies
• IT experience(PHP, MySQL, Moodle, Joomla, Drupal)

Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to project team; including hiring, training, performance management and professional development opportunities;
• Manages/oversees all aspects of assigned projects (including definition of project scope/objectives, development of project plan and schedule, budget and resource plan, status reporting, project development, and implementation);
• Develops and manages allocation of work assignments among team members;
• Negotiates for resources (as required) within the context of the project objectives, requirements, and priorities;
• Interfaces with business owner(s)/customer(s) and all other areas/individuals affected by the project;
• Monitor and respond to changes in environment, organization, customers and products and improve existing use of the LMS functionality;
• Serve as the advocate and lynchpin between the LMS Team and University administration.

Job Title: LMS Project Manager

Experience: Minimum 8 years relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 30 - 40 years

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelors degree (16 years) in Computer Science, Management, or related field and 6 years experience in full life cycle project management or program management or related field. Two years relaxation in experience in case of Masters degree (18 years

Preferred Skills

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Two years hands-on experience in developing web applications using modern web technologies
• One year experience in implementing advanced learning technologies
• One year experience of working in an academic environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and capability of motivating team members

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of the learning management system
• Facilitate task planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, and demos
• Prioritize project tasks to meet major milestones
• Identify and manage dependencies with systems, engineering, and coordination teams
• Proactively manage project conflicts and removes impediments/blockers in order to keep teams highly productive
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in project management and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of learning management system
• Manage and guide the team through project lifecycle on best practices
• Actively contribute to process improvements
• Proactively identify gaps in resource plans or project objectives and facilitate resolutions with exec management
• Provide metrics and status to exec management
• Align project to objectives and needs of the university
• Model compliance with university policies and procedures and support university mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrit

Job Title: LMS Application Administrator

Experience: Minimum 3 to 4 years relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 25 - 40 years

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (16 years) in Computer Science, Management, or related field and 2 years’ experience in full life cycle project management or team lead or related field. One year relaxation in experience in case of Masters degree (18 years).

Preferred Skills

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• One year hands-on experience in developing web applications using modern web technologies
• Experience in implementing advanced learning technologies
• Experience of working in an academic environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and capability of motivating team members

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of development and implementation of the learning management system
• Investigate new learning technologies and work closely with coordination and systems team for implementation of technology-enhanced learning
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in project management and apply this to the development and improvement of learning management system
• Manage and guide the engineering team through project lifecycle on best practices
• Facilitate task planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, and demos
• Assist the project manager by undertaking assignments as may reasonably be required
• Model compliance with university policies and procedures and support university mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

Job Title: LMS Coordinator/ E-Learning Coordinator (Contract job equivalent to BPS-17)

Experience: Minimum 1 year relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 22 - 40 years

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (16 years) in Computer Science or related field and one year experience in project coordination or implementation of modern web applications. Relaxation in experience in case of Masters degree (18 years of education)

Preferred Skills

• Experience of working in an academic environment
• Experience in developing or managing web applications on Linux environment
• Experience of conducting trainings and managing learning events
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Job Responsibilities

• Investigate new learning technologies and work closely with the engineering team for implementation of technology-enhanced learning
• Undertake research initiatives by indulging in educational data mining, surveys, writing proposals and research papers, and presenting outcomes
• Prepare training material and programs to enhance the faculty teaching and learning experience of students
• Manage contents and process for course creation, enrollments, auditing and reporting
• Manage project related documents such as requirement specifications, website contents, progress reports, and ensure availability of information to relevant stakeholders
• Provide trainings and support to faculty, staff, or students with expert knowledge of the LMS
• Act as a liaison between the School administration and LMS team
• Collaborate with the engineering team by providing important user feedback, process-improvement suggestions, new troubleshooting tips and other actions that involve improving the LMS application
• Assist the project manager and school administration by undertaking assignments as may reasonably be required
• Model compliance with university policies and procedures and support university mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

Job Title: LMS Senior Web Developer (Contract job equivalent to BPS-17)

Experience: Minimum 3 years relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 22 - 40 years

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (16 years) in Computer Science or related field and three year experience in real world software engineering and implementation of modern web applications. Relaxation in experience in case of Masters degree (18 years of education)

Preferred Skills

• Passionate about programming, technologies, and good user experience
• Incredible coding skills, obsessive about efficient and scalable code
• Solid understanding in web infrastructure, web protocols, and Linux environment
• Expertise in Javascript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL

Job Responsibilities

• Develop modules for enhancing the faculty teaching. Combine pedagogy and web technologies to boost the learning experience of students
• Improve the user experience and usability with the opportunity to use the latest web technologies, develop prototypes, etc.
• Create plugins that thousands of students will use without affecting performance of the application
• Imagine features and modules that no one thought before
• Perform code QA and ensure browser compatibility
• Manage code related documents from requirement specifications to unit test reports
• Assist the project manager by undertaking assignments as may reasonably be required
• Model compliance with university policies and procedures and support university mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

Job Title: LMS Web Developer (Contract job equivalent to BPS-17)

Experience: Minimum 1 year relevant experience.

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience.

Age: 22 - 40 years

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (16 years) in Computer Science or related field and one year experience in real world software engineering and implementation of modern web applications. Relaxation in experience in case of Masters degree (18 years of education)

Preferred Skills

• Passionate about programming, technologies, and good user experience
• Incredible coding skills, obsessive about efficient and scalable code
• Solid understanding in web infrastructure, web protocols, and Linux environment
• Expertise in Javascript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL

Job Responsibilities

• Develop modules for enhancing the faculty teaching. Combine pedagogy and web technologies to boost the learning experience of students
• Improve the user experience and usability with the opportunity to use the latest web technologies, develop prototypes, etc.
• Create plugins that thousands of students will use without affecting performance of the application
• Imagine features and modules that no one thought before
• Perform code QA and ensure browser compatibility
• Manage code related documents from requirement specifications to unit test reports
• Assist the project manager by undertaking assignments as may reasonably be required
• Model compliance with university policies and procedures and support university mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

Job Title: System Administrator (Contract job equivalent to BPS-17/18)

Experience: Minimum 4 -6 years System Administration experience.

Salary: 40k to 50k.

Age: 22 - 45 years

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science
• Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in LINUX.
• Working knowledge of databases and database tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional analytical skills and capacity for critical thinking, ability to work with minimal supervision, strong attention to detail and ability to effectively multi task.
• Experience in an education or training environment.
• Technical support experience.
• Should have some knowledge of Network Administration

Added Qualifications

• Learning Management System administration, configuration and LMS.
• Training experience would be considered a plus.
• Occasional overnight or off hours work might be required.
• CCNA,CCNP & Linux.
• Familiarity with Ganglia & Webalyzer will be considered a plus.

Job Title: Assistant System Administrator (Contract job equivalent to BPS-16)

Job Requirement: BS degree in CS/IT or equivalent from HEC recognized University.

Experience: Minimum 1 to 2 years experience in configuration and management of LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and OpenLDAP.

Salary: Approximate Pay will be 25K-35K

Age: 25 - 40 years

How to Apply: Apply on the NUST HR Portal

Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2013