Welcome
Marlborough College seeks to appoint a talented Photographer to join its flourishing and successful Art & Photography Department. The suitable candidate will be an outstanding practitioner with the vision to be creative, the passion to motivate, and the subject-knowledge to challenge and inspire.
About the College
Founded in 1843, Marlborough College offers pupils between the ages of 13 and 18 a contemporary education within a warm, inclusive and spiritual environment. Situated at the western end of the Wiltshire market town of Marlborough, the College occupies 200 acres of beautiful and significant landscape. The Marlborough Mound, a Neolithic Monument dating back to 2,400BC, lies at the heart of an historic campus, which blends stunning architecture with inspirational facilities.
The College is an Anglican Foundation, incorporated by Royal Charter, and a registered educational charity. The community comprises of just over 1000 pupils (almost all of whom are full boarders), 140 teaching staff, and over 400 non-teaching staff. There are 16 boarding houses, substantial teaching and ancillary buildings, and extensive grounds and playing fields.
The life of the College is a full one, extending across the full seven-day week. Each member of the teaching staff is required to play an active part in the co-curricular life of the College and to serve as a boarding house tutor.
About the Department
The purpose-built Art School, which opened in September 2005, accommodates seven working studios: a central atrium adjoined by Sixth Form workstations, two painting studios, two further studios also containing etching facilities, with a third housing an Albion and a Columbian press for relief printing. The remaining studio holds a significant portion of the Department’s still-life resources. The building also contains an excellent reference library, large lecture room with projection facilities, a purpose designed darkroom, photographic studio, a preparation room and store room. The ceramics and drawing studios are located in an adjacent building. Also adjacent is the Mount House Gallery, where exhibitions by external artists and our pupils’ work are displayed.
The Art School seeks to provide a lively, stimulating and supportive environment, where pupils are tutored and encouraged to investigate and research ideas within a structured programme of teaching.
Art is taught by a team of five full-time teachers, who are each practicing Artists. Great emphasis is placed upon team-work, communication and humour! Each Art member has his/her own area of professional responsibility and expertise. The primary disciplines within our curriculum are painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, textiles and sculpture, but his does not pre-empt further development. The Head of Department is responsible for co-ordinating the best teaching strategies and for formulating a philosophy that gives direction and purpose to the Department above and beyond its significant examination commitments.
The Art School employs four technicians (one full-time, 3 part-time) and appoints an Artist-in-Residence annually. The Department is open seven days per week during term-time. Teachers run co-curricular option classes and provide support for our pupils’ development through weekly studies and prep sessions. Afternoon sessions during weekends in the Art School are staffed on a rota basis.
All pupils in their first year (Shell), study Art once per week. Second year pupils (Remove) have the opportunity to opt into the two-year GCSE Fine Art course. In the Sixth Form, pupils have the opportunity to study the A level Fine Art or Photography course. Photography A level has grown in pupil popularity in recent years. Each year, our pupils regularly gain places on Art Foundation, architecture, and other specialist degree courses.
Our pupils are encouraged to explore the varying relationships between art mediums. Inspiration is further gained by tuition in both contemporary and traditional art practices. Whilst it is essential that the requirements of the examination criteria are firmly met, high value is placed on developing pupils’ individual approaches and outlook when making art.
About the role
The person appointed is expected to value the opportunity to engage with young people both in and out of the classroom. Although the Photographer-in-Residence works primarily within the Art School, he/she is appointed as an Artist-in-Residence for the whole College.
The value of having an Artist-Photographer working on site for a year is significant and their presence enables -
* Pupils and teaching staff to witness at first-hand the process and influences involved within the creation of art.
* The opportunity for pupils and staff to work alongside an individual who is a practicing artist/photographer.
* The opportunity for teachers to incorporate the Photographer’s work within class projects and enable pupils to interact and ask questions of a practising artist.
* The promotion of their specialism within the Art school, the college and wider community.
During the year, the departments expectations include the following:
* Curating an exhibition of their work, ‘Introducing the Photographer’. This should take place in the first month of residency (September) in the Resident Photographers Studio.
* Creating artwork during their residency, leading towards a solo exhibition towards the end of the residency, held in the Mount House Gallery during the Summer Term (June).
* Delivering one lecture, to Art pupils, on own practice/inspirations/aspirations.
* Ensuring that the Photographers-in-Residence Studio space is a lively, productive and inspiring environment.
* Opportunity to each A level Photography two to four hours per week in term-time.
Within the educational environment they should also be willing to be involved in the following:
* To work alongside members of the Art School in lessons (arranged in advance) and on some occasions, may be asked to cover lessons.
* Offering a weekly afternoon activity for Lower School pupils (1 hour) (within the Artist’s own art specialism)
* To be part of a rota to oversee evening and weekend sessions in the Art School.
* To be willing to help to curate and organise the Art Scholars’ annual exhibition.
An optional addition is the opportunity to gain pastoral experience by:
* Tutoring in a Boarding House one duty night per week (7.15pm – 11.00pm).
Essential information
Salary of £14,835 per annum is available for this position. With an additional budgeted allowance of up to £2,250 (spread over 3 terms) for specialist photographic materials.
The College will offer accommodation for the duration of the contract, further to this, all meals can be taken in Norwood Hall, during term-time, when a catering service is being provided by the College.
Members of staff are responsible for considering the Health and Safety of themselves and others as an integral part of their job and expected to comply with the College Health and Safety policy.
Any offer of employment would be subject to references satisfactory to the College, an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check, proof of right to live/work in the UK, and evidence of stated qualifications.
If you would like to discuss any other matters relating to this post, please contact Edward Twohig
General Responsibilities Policies & Procedures
The postholder is required to familiarise themselves with all College policies and procedures and to comply with these at all times, including ensuring that their own job role procedures are regularly kept up to date.
Safeguarding Statement
Marlborough College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The College expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and staff must adhere to and ensure compliance with the College’s Safeguarding Policy at all times.
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education legislation and safer recruitment practices, the College will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further guidance and will be asked to clarify their online presence.
The College applies for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for all positions at the College which amount to regulated activity with children. The role you have applied for meets the legal definition of regulated activity with children. If you are successful in your application, you will be required to complete a DBS Disclosure online Application Form. Employment with the College is conditional upon the College being satisfied with the result of the Enhanced DBS Disclosure. Any criminal records information that is disclosed to the College will be handled in accordance with any guidance and / or code of practice published by the DBS.
The College will also carry out a check of the Children's Barred List. Please be aware that it is unlawful for the College to employ anyone to work with children if they are barred from doing so, and it is a criminal offence for a person to apply to work with children if they are barred from doing so.
The role you have applied for is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the College is therefore permitted to ask you to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which would normally be considered "spent") in order to assess your suitability to work with children. However, you do not have to disclose a caution or conviction for an offence committed in the United Kingdom if it has been filtered in accordance with the DBS filtering rules.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from taking up employment with the College. Instead, the College will assess each case on its merits and with reference to the College's objective assessment procedure set out in the College's 'Recruitment, selection and disclosure policy and procedure'.
The successful applicant must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post and cannot start in post until all pre-employment checks have been completed satisfactorily. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.
The College is an educational charity and equal opportunities employer.
Confidentiality & Data Protection
The postholder must maintain the confidentiality of information about students, staff and any other personal information and meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act and GDPR.
Health & Safety
Staff must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and any subsequent relevant legislation and must follow these in full at all times including ensuring that they act in line with all agreed procedures at all times in order to maintain a safe environment.
All staff are responsible for considering the Health and Safety of themselves and others as an integral part of their job and are expected to comply with the College Health and Safety policy.