Sustainability Design Leader, BA (Honours) Product Design

The opportunity

We are looking for a Sustainability Studies Leader across stages of BA Product Design at Central Saint Martins. This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and dynamic course team on an internationally renowned course that promotes creative experimentation, academic research and critical practice.

The BA Product Design course is committed to exploring product design as a practice encompassing the fields of FMCG, furniture, consumer products and service design. Our large and internationally diverse body of staff, students and alumni lead industry, transform traditional practices and expand the wider discipline. Agile and cross-disciplinary practitioners, our staff and students are ambitious to engage audiences, apply ideas and challenge convention.

This Sustainability Studies Leader post involves responsibility for the operational and academic management across stages of BA Product Design, but is largely a teaching role into the course. It includes providing the academic overview, strategic leadership and coordinating monitoring across the stages, providing pastoral and academic support, with engagement with the process and parity of assessment and feedback. This large course currently is concerned with developing opportunities for students to work collaboratively across sectors and disciplines, with potential for building external relationships, enterprise and event opportunities.

About you

You possess excellent communication and organisational skills and have a track record of working effectively as part of team. You have experience of teaching, leadership and management within a higher education environment, and strong skills in strategic planning, implementation and delivery. You bring initiative and agility and enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You demonstrate expertise in teaching and learning and in providing excellence in student support.

You have an established practice and a professional profile in product design or a related discipline. You are actively engaged with current discipline debates and in developing research that will contribute to the growing research culture of the Product Design Programme. You bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of product design.

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 email the CSM Staffing Team - jobenquiries@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.  

Our culture