Course Coordinator MA Innovation Management

The opportunity

As the MA Innovation Management Course Coordinator, you will be engaging in dynamic teaching, innovation, course management and research duties in the context of a highly regarded, transdisciplinary postgraduate course at CSM. The mission of the MA Innovation Management (that takes two years to complete, allowing each cohort community to experiment with new practices and produce work of publishable quality) is to help students develop the creative strategies and resilience they need to drive innovation as well as transformative change amid deep uncertainty.

The role offers scope for collaborating with a range of other path-breaking communities at CSM and UAL, in areas such as biodesign, social design, arts & science, architecture and cities, along with courses located within the Culture and Enterprise Programme such as the CSM-Birkbeck MBA, MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, and MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries.

The MA Innovation Management always recruits a set of diverse mix of exceptionally creative, ambitious students who predominantly come from various design, social science, management, tech, entrepreneurship and public service backgrounds. The course is radically collaborative in nature and is based on an ethos of constant dialogue between theory and practice, as well as teamwork, experimentation and hands-on projects with clients. For more, please see https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/business-and-management-and-science/postgraduate/ma-innovation-management-csm#

About you

You are an open-minded academic of world-leading standing with a balanced record of service and a background in fields such as social innovation, systems change, design management, innovation management, strategic management, social design or creative entrepreneurship.

By working with the Course Leader (Tuukka Toivonen, PhD Oxon.), you will ensure that the MA Innovation Management maintains and enhances its cutting-edge global reputation, by working across multiple key levels in a dynamic, entrepreneurial fashion.

You will be ready for the challenges of educating diverse students who often come from design backgrounds but are also expected to perform at a high level in terms of more conventional academic outputs (dissertations, essays, rigorous fieldwork). You will have a solid foundation of experience in teaching delivery, academic management and research. You will be qualified to PhD level and preferably have an accredited teaching qualification in Higher Education. You will be enthusiastic about developing and managing digital aspects of creative masters-level education.

Note that the MA Innovation Management is located within the Culture and Enterprise programme at CSM, an exciting multidisciplinary home for courses such as the MA Applied Imagination, the CSM-Birkbeck MBA and the BA Culture, Criticism and Curation. The programme has in the last five years radically broadened its academic scope in terms of subject areas, global partnerships with other HEIs, and delivery. By building collaborative relationships across these areas, you will be able to play a broader role as an advocate of creative innovation management teaching practice and research at postgraduate level.

In return, we offer a competitive employment package including a salary that reflects working in London, generous annual leave, an attractive pension scheme, and a commitment to your continuing personal and career development in an environment that encourages creativity, diversity and excellence.

If you have any queries about this role please contact CSM Staffing team via email: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.

What we offer

We are UAL

University of the Arts London is a vibrant world-leading centre for creativity and innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. The reputation of Central Saint Martins stems from the creative energy of its staff and students and the stellar achievements of its graduates nationally and internationally. Students and staff are continually alert to fresh challenge; they are curious and restless in developing beyond the expected norms of their subject and discipline.  

Our culture