BA GCD Platform Leader: Experience & Environment

The opportunity

BA (Honours) Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins is a large and diverse undergraduate course that facilitates students to pursue a range of specialist, generalist, and hybrid approaches that extend and challenge the traditions of graphic design. You can see examples of work produced by our most recent graduates on the UAL Graduate Showcase: https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/c/central-saint-martins-ba-hons-graphic-communication-design.

BA (Honours) Graphic Communication Design is structured around five platforms representing various aspects of Graphic Communication Design. Each Platform’s Leader is responsible for leading and implementing one of these substantive curricular areas in addition to teaching on units across UG levels. The course’s team of Platform Leaders play a key role in supporting the Course Leader to develop and articulate the vision and subject perspective of the course.

The Experience & Environment Platform is described broadly in the course’s new handbook via a list of keywords which provide a starting point for envisioning the platform’s multiple potentials: exhibition design, event design, participatory design, relational design, speculative design, interaction design. Through the application and interview process, we will be interested in understanding how different candidates bring their distinct experiences to elaborating, complicating, and communicating their vision for the platform’s future in the context of the wider trajectory of the course’s development.

During 2022–23, the incoming Experience & Environment Platform Leader will contribute to the delivery of a refreshed sequence of Platform units currently in development through 5-yearly reapproval. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the vision and strategic positioning of the course and programme as part of the course’s management team.

About you

Before completing an application form, candidates should please download the candidate information pack and the job description/person specification for the role and read the full list of requirements and selection criteria before applying, as this will be the criteria on which your application will be assessed.

We are looking for a motivated academic with a track record of facilitating and supporting students and colleagues, working individually and as part of communities and teams. You will take a dynamic and critical approach to Graphic Communication Design and Higher Education, and be actively engaged in practice or research relevant to the BA (Honours) Graphic Communication Design curriculum at CSM. You will have a postgraduate qualification (or the equivalent) with the potential to contribute to the advancement of the field.

UAL is committed to addressing the under-representation of staff from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, using our student profile as a reference point.

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. If you have any queries about this role please email the CSM Resourcing Team on: 0207 514 8793 or email: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk

What we offer

We are UAL

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

Now is a crucial time for Central Saint Martins and the University of the Arts London. The pandemic and anti-racism movement in their own and intersecting ways set a new landscape for higher education in the creative arts, in which ways of teaching and operating will be reconsidered, and where the values of social justice and anti-racism must underpin everything we do. These conditions set both urgent challenges but also the potential to reflect on what we do. Central Saint Martins aims to engage with and lead the global debate about the arts, performance and design, and their role in societal transformation. We also aim to empower our graduates to be the leading practitioners in their field, as well as responsible citizens of the world. We hope you will consider joining our creative community.

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