Director, CSM LVMH Sustainable Innovation Partnership

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Central Saint Martins
College Office
CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Associate Deans and Other Senior Academic Staff
circa £65,000 per annum (£39,000 pro rata)

Fixed Term - 4 years

Part time - 22.2 hours per week

6 March 2017 23:55

The opportunity

The Director of CSM LVMH Sustainable Innovation will take a leading role in this exciting new 4 year strategic partnership between our two world leading institutions.

The post-holder will lead on the understanding, development and communication of sustainable innovation thinking, practices, partnerships and initiatives in education, research, practice and enterprise, providing a new interface between the College and LVMH, and enabling both parties to maximise and share the learning from our collaboration in an holistic and integrated manner

You will provide academic leadership in Sustainable Innovation across the Partnership in research, enterprise and curriculum development by building future capacity for Sustainable Innovation approaches and learning within both institutions.

You will co-ordinate and leverage academic expertise and research, drawing on CSM’s R&D capacity, to drive Sustainable Innovation to maximum benefit across a range of areas within the partnership.

The postholder will represent the LVMH and CSM Partnership in national and international debates on Sustainable Innovation processes and policies in existing and emerging international media, academic, public and private sector arenas in order to develop thinking, learning and action.

About you

As a sophisticated creative practitioner / researcher and academic in the field of sustainable innovation, you will have acknowledged expertise in the shaping, influencing and application of sustainable innovation initiatives and solutions to problems which have strategic impact.

With previous experience in consultancy, academic, professional and media environments you will have an in-depth understanding and personal experience of the relationship of sustainable innovation in national and international creative education and industry sectors.

Alongside experience of planning and managing the delivery of complex projects or activities to achieve long term strategic objectives, you will have experience of building, leading and motivating effective teams, networks or communities of practice and of fostering constructive cross-team collaboration.

With excellent communication skills, you will be able to adapt the style and message to a diverse internal or external audience in an inclusive and accessible way in academic, professional and media environments.

Candidates of appropriate standing will be considered for professorial title under normal UAL procedures


In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Relocation assistance is available.


If you have any queries about this role please contact James Couling, Staffing Administrator, email j.couling@csm.arts.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 7885


 

What we offer

 

We are UAL

Central Saint Martins is a world-leading centre for arts and design education.  Its reputation stems from the creative energy of its staff and students and the stellar achievements of its graduates nationally and internationally.  The nine programmes at CSM explore the boundaries of their discipline.  Students and staff are continually alert to new ideas, and are curious and restless in developing beyond the expected norms of their subject, so emerging work is at the forefront of its area.  CSM sits at the heart of London’s creative scene, and of one of Europe’s most dynamic new culture and innovation quarters at King’s Cross, making the college increasingly important to London’s cultural life, and indicative of our general desire to open up CSM to as broad an audience as possible. 

The world leader in luxury, LVMH has deployed a business model marked by dynamic growth since its creation in 1987. It is the only group present in all five major sectors of the luxury market:  Wines & Spirits, Fashion & Leather Goods, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Watches & Jewelry and Selective Retailing. The LVMH group brings together 70 exceptional Houses, which create products that convey savoir-faire and preserved heritage while remaining firmly anchored in modernity. These creations make our Houses ambassadors of a distinctively refined art de vivre. As a family-run group, LVMH strives to ensure the long-term development of each of its Houses in keeping with their identity, their heritage and their expertise.

LVMH has for the past 20 years anticipated and adapted production processes, habits and behaviors, working each day to find better solutions to the many environmental challenges our industry faces. Products created by the Group’s Houses are made from natural and often rare and exceptional raw materials. The design and manufacture of luxury products not only requires innovation, creativity and production excellence, but also environmental performance. These values, which originate in the unique heritage of our Houses, are perpetuated through the expertise and commitment of our environment teams. The LVMH Environmental Department has been working closely with our Houses for over 20 years to achieve exemplary environmental performance.

Our culture

 

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