Contract: Fixed Term until July 2027
Hours: 17.98 Teaching Hours and 10.94 Non-contact hours
At City of Bristol College, we deliver transformative education in inclusive and dynamic learning environments and for our employees, this is no different so why not come and join us? With recent investments in our already outstanding facilities, the College has a great deal on offer for you.
One of our key strategic aims is our unrelenting focus on our people-first culture, ensuring you feel valued, empowered, and recognised for your individual contributions and expertise whether that be in a teaching capacity or a professional services team. All colleagues within the College contribute to the success of our students and we actively work to eliminate any barriers at work, ensuring you have the opportunity to thrive.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our vibrant college community as a Creative Business Lecturer at our College Green Campus. This role would suit either an experienced lecturer or a creative industry professional with strong experience in creative business, enterprise, marketing, production, project management, arts administration, freelance practice or a related creative industry specialism.
In this rewarding role, you will teach across our Level 3 BTEC creative qualifications, with the potential to contribute to UAL provision, and play a key role in leading and helping to build our T Level provision across Craft and Media. You will help students understand how the creative industries operate, including creative economy structures, commissioning, fundraising, funding routes, budgeting, marketing, audience development, client relationships, project planning and professional practice.
We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running, bring current creative industry knowledge into the classroom and support students to connect their creative work to real-world industry expectations. If you are not already teacher qualified, you will need to be willing to train to teach.
What we offer:
Our people-first ethos provides a highly supportive, flexible approach to enable you to excel within your role and to reach your full potential. In return, you can expect the following:
•Two-week paid Christmas close down and additional paid time off over Easter on top of a generous holiday entitlement of 26/30/35 holiday days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles).
•Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 %
•Membership to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 28.68%
•Paid Volunteering leave (3 days a year)
•Family friendly policies including paid fertility and foster friendly policy
•A menopause policy outlining support available
•A person-centred annual appraisal focusing on your wellbeing and CPD
•Access to a benefits portal including shopping discounts and cycle to work scheme plus lots more!
•The 'Right to Disconnect' from work outside of your normal working hours
•A supportive, highly utilised hybrid and flexible working policy
•An Aspiring Leaders programme open to all plus our Management Academy for all management roles covering management skill and internal processes
•Welfare Rooms at all our sites for professional breakout and relaxation spaces
•A bespoke programme of recognition, reward and celebration for colleagues throughout the year to recognise your hard work.
We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to join us. As a disability confident employer, we take a trauma informed approach to our work, support the Care Leavers covenant, and have been awarded accreditation as a College of Sanctuary for refugees.
You can have a look here at our Staff Benefits Booklet for even more.
About your role:
In this rewarding role, you will deliver creative business, enterprise and professional practice content across our creative curriculum. You will support learners to understand the business context behind successful creative practice, including funding, finance, marketing, promotion, client relationships, audience research, project planning, professional standards and progression into employment, freelance practice, apprenticeships or higher education.
You will also play an important role in developing the College’s T Level provision across Craft and Media, ensuring students are prepared for the expectations of technical qualifications and the wider creative industries.
Eligible further education (FE) teachers can apply for the first round of levelling up premium payments from autumn 2024 until spring 2025. To find out more information about this scheme, please visit here - Levelling up premium payments for FE teachers - GOV.UK
We have four main sites across the city with state-of-the-art facilities. Further future investment in our estates is now allowing us to provide the best possible outcomes for our students and local communities, delivered by our fantastic community of colleagues.
At City of Bristol College, we have one goal: to help our students succeed. We offer the widest range of academic and vocational qualifications in the area, with more than 1,000 courses available from entry to degree level and we provide education and training to approximately 10,000 students each year.
More information about the College can be found on our website.
City of Bristol College is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. The search of the online presence will be conducted for the successful candidates. All new employees to the College are required to complete and obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. A copy of our Safeguarding Policy can be found on the College website.
Please see our Job Description, Person Specification, Conditions of Service and Applicant Information for more information about the role and what it’s like to be part of our team.
A few points to note:
If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our processes, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
We are committed to creating an inclusive and flexible working environment, that promotes diversity. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the job description or you are seeking an alternative working pattern, please apply anyway – you may just be the person we are looking for. We recognise that talent comes in various forms, and we are committed to providing opportunities that create an environment of growth, diversity, and inclusion for everyone. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use.
We do not engage with recruitment agencies for this role. Any CVs received from agencies will be considered as unsolicited and the property of the City of Bristol College, with no obligation to pay agency fees.
Closing date: 29th June 2026
Interview date: 9th July 2026
Safeguarding Statement
City of Bristol College is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All new employees to the College are required to complete and obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. Further information will be sent to all prospective staff as part of the application process.
A copy of our Safeguarding Policy can be found on the College website.