Course Leader BA (Hons) Textile Design

The opportunity

The Design and Material Practices Programme within the Design School invites applications for the Course Leader BA (Hons) Textile Design role based at Chelsea College of Arts.

You'll contribute to the senior management team and work collaboratively with the Programme Director, Dean and senior colleagues. You'll be an inspiring leader, confident in leading a large staff team and student cohort and implementing visionary change through the newly re-approved course structure.

You'll have a broad range of expertise in Textile Design in two or more of the following: stitch, knit, weave, print, smart/e-textiles, responsible design, digital storytelling, mixed media, moving image, emerging technologies, or bio-design.

You'll devise projects, negotiate live projects with external organisations, deliver briefings and teaching sessions to large and small groups of students, lead and support work-in-progress exhibitions, as well as monitor student progress and assess work.

About you

You'll be an experienced Course Leader or Senior Lecturer with an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Textile Design or an associated subject. You'll have excellent organisational and communication skills combined with leadership and management experience.

You'll be a leading practitioner and educator with an appetite for developing Textile Design education fit for future purpose and engaging staff and students in the course’s new journey.

You'll maintain strong links with design practitioners from a wide range of professions, subjects and disciplines and build collaborative links with a range of institutions and employers.  

You'll bring innovative pedagogic directions to teaching, learning and assessment in Textile Design and implement diverse and inclusive approaches. As a champion of UAL’s principles of justice, you will strengthen the course’s ambitions in embedding these into the curriculum.

We are UAL

UAL offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

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Closing date: 8^th September 2024, 23:55.

The scheduled interview date is 18^th September 2024.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Caryn Simonson, Programme Director for Textile Design / c.simonson@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Adrienne Marsh, Resourcing Adviser at jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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