Lecturer, BA (Honours) Product and Industrial Design

The opportunity

BA Product and Industrial Design is a Queens Anniversary Prize-winning undergraduate course based at Central Saint Martins in Kings Cross, London. BAPID is recognised for its outward-looking disposition and the creativity and employability of its graduates. As part of the Product Ceramic and Industrial Design programme, it's committed to an ethos of creative ambition, collaboration, and making through design as a practice that transforms, is anticipatory, and adaptive to the benefit of people enterprises and the environment.

The course is now looking to recruit knowledgeable, empathic and enthusiastic individuals to join the teaching team. You will be a significant contributor to the student learning experience providing guidance, encouragement and inspiration for our future design leaders. To achieve this, you are expected to provide:

• Rigorous academic leadership to ensure the quality of learning and teaching
• Effective management skills
• Industry and community engagement activities to keep the course at the forefront of design practice
• Curriculum design, content and organisation that provides parity and fairness
• Activities to support student pastoral care

 This is an opportunity for you to join a team devoted to equality, diversity and inclusivity in the sector.

We have two positions available, a full-time (1FTE) and a part-time (0.4 FTE).
Please state in your application which working arrangement do you wish to apply for (full-time/part-time).

About you

We re looking for applicants with experience in the Product and Industrial Design sector with at least an undergraduate degree in this discipline or associated subject. You may have a wide range of skills, or be specialised in a particular aspect of the sector. You will have experience of teaching and assessment within a higher education environment.

As a role model for our students, you will be creative and have an inquiring, innovative and reflexive approach to teaching. You will consider equality, diversity and inclusivity in all aspects of your teaching. You will work effectively and respectfully with a wide range of people.

With a combination of academic and industry experiences, you will be able to effectively navigate the processes and dynamics of both the educational and professional aspects of the Product and Industrial design sector and developments within both education and industry.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive salary and pension plus 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 the CSM Staffing Team, email jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.

What we offer

We are UAL

University of the Arts London is a vibrant world centre for innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts.

CSM

The new King’s Cross site is an innovative building situated in a historic part of Central London with facilities designed around the creative needs of students, as well as to enable our teachers to deliver outstanding tuition. This exciting educational environment will be ideal for anyone who wants to be a part of a new chapter in the story of Central Saint Martins, and a new era in arts education.

Our culture