Grade UE06: Salary Range £34,610 to £39,906 Pro-rata.
Applications are invited for a Guaranteed Hours (GH), open ended contract as a Tutor in Product Design on the following courses:
DESI10143 Product Design: Professional Practice (20 Credits) (118 hours)
The Opportunity:
Your skills and attributes for success:
1. A candidate with extensive industry experience as a product designer or design manager.
2. Ability to work within a team with a collegial attitude, respect and sensitivity toward students and other staff members.
3. Ability to apply professional practice experience from real life situations to enhance student understanding
4. Experience of working in HE at undergraduate level in a design discipline.
5. An enthusiastic, positive, and creative approach to teaching
In addition to a full cv/resume, please provide a covering letter describing your interest and detailing why you wish to be considered for the role
About the Team
Edinburgh College of Art is a large and diverse school within the University of Edinburgh's College of Humanities and Social Science. It comprises Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.
Our mission is to promote world-leading critical enquiry across all these subject areas through scholarly research, teaching and creative practice.
Over 3,000 students and 800 staff study and work at ECA and we enjoy strong relationships with museums, galleries, archives, practitioners and industry partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and internationally.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, and wish to particularly encourage applications from women and from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, who are underrepresented at this level. As a member of our team, you will benefit from mentoring and development programmes, local EDI Committees and related activities, staff support networks such as Disabled Staff Network, Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Staff BAME Network, Staff Pride Network, and knowledge networks such as GenderEd and RaceEd.
Interviews will be held at a time to be determined later.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Tier 2/Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative existing right to work in the UK.