Course Leader BA Virtual Reality

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London College of Communication
School of Screen
LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK
Grade 6
£45,603 - £54,943

Permanent

Full time - 37 hours per week

9 May 2019 23:55

The opportunity

London College of Communication are seeking to recruit a Course Leader for the LCC Screen School’s BA Virtual Reality course. 

UAL moves to position itself a global leader in virtual reality practice and research, and seek to appoint a skilled practitioner with experience in both immersive storytelling and higher education teaching. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the course in close relationship with the Moving Image & Digital Arts faculty and Programme Director. This includes leading the planning, delivery and assessment of both technical and theoretical units on the course, managing associate lecturers, monitoring and responding to performance data and representing the course and subject in the context of the operations of the school and college. 

The successful candidate will possess a strong working knowledge of the following software systems, languages and practice areas

-         Unity

-         C#

-         Autodesk Maya (inc. Python/MEL)

-         360° filmmaking processes and technologies

-         Unreal Engine

-         Adobe CC

The successful candidate will also have substantial experience working in in Higher Education, in either a leadership or practice-focused capacity.

About you

As a professional industry practitioner, you will hold a relevant degree and will be able to demonstrate significant creative success and specialist knowledge in virtual production workflows and technologies including Unity development, 360° filmmaking, games design & development, as well as an understanding of emerging practices such as creative coding and real-time rendering systems.

You will be forward thinking and visionary, with an understanding of the changing demands of the industry and a contemporary approach and understanding virtual reality production and research.

A relevant postgraduate qualification will be an advantage, while industry experience is essential.

Experience in higher education is essential. 

To equip generation after generation for success, we rely on an outstanding academic team who are as imaginative, forward thinking and visionary, as they are informed: people with hands on experience of their industry and a keen eye on the future.

If you have any general queries, you may contact Lesley Wilkins, Staffing Administrator, lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk or telephone: 020 7514 7985

What we offer

 

We are UAL

London College of Communication is a pioneering world leader in creative communications education. With the communications sector constantly evolving at a rapid speed, we work at the cutting edge of new thinking and developments to prepare our students for successful careers in the creative industries of the future. Our course provision reflects the breadth of expertise housed within the most diverse creative agency including: journalism, advertising, PR and publishing; photography; film, television and sound; communications and media; graphic communication; spatial communication; design cultures; and interactive and visual communication. 

Our culture

 

This opportunity is closed to applications.