App Developer

App Developer Job Title: App Developer (UKMC Career App) Salary: £32,000 to £35,000 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience Department: Career App Location: Manchester, based at one of the College's Manchester campuses (College House, Abarna or Salford), with travel to other UKMC campuses as required Reporting Line: Career App Lead Developer Proposed Start Date: ASAP Employment Type: Full Time Contract type: Permanent Working Days and Hours: Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm Working Pattern: Office-based, with no hybrid working arrangement available for this role THE COMPANY UK Management College (UKMC) is a higher education institution committed to delivering high-quality education and an outstanding student experience.

The College delivers degree programmes in partnership with its awarding universities across campuses in Manchester (College House, Abarna and Salford), Derby, Newcastle (North Shields) and Sunderland and provides a supportive, inclusive and forward-thinking environment for students and staff, with a strong focus on academic excellence, professional development and continuous improvement.

The Career App team designs, builds and operates the UKMC Career App, the College's mobile application for students and staff on Android and iOS. Through the app, students map their skills against the learning outcomes of their modules, plan their semester pathway, build a record of their employability, and message and book appointments with their Personal Academic Tutor and the Wellbeing team.

The app is in live use with University of Wolverhampton and Canterbury Christ Church University cohorts and is being extended across the College's campuses and partner programmes, with the capacity to serve the whole student body.

THE ROLE Purpose of the Role The App Developer will develop, release and support the UKMC Career App alongside the Career App Lead Developer, ensuring that new programmes, cohorts and campuses are brought onto the service reliably as it grows.

The postholder will also contribute to the next stage of the app's development: artificial intelligence built on the app's own data, including agentic AI assistants for students and staff, the matching of students to jobs and skills, and machine learning models that identify at an early-stage students who may need additional support.

The role spans the mobile application, the server and the live cloud service, and requires the handling of student data to a high standard of care and confidentiality. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of the Career App and its AI features and will work closely with the Career App Lead Developer, Course Directors, Personal Academic Tutors, the Wellbeing team, Registry and Academic Services and the IT Department.

THE ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES The postholder will: Design, develop and maintain new features ac...

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