Lecturer in Animation

About the role

We are a thriving subject area in the exciting multi-disciplinary department of English and Creative Arts. With excellent facilitates, dynamic teachers, world class researchers and an ever-expanding array of external partners and collaborators, the department is going from strength to strength.

As Lecturer in Animation, you will be required to make a significant contribution to the delivery of our Animation degree, contributing to the delivery of our modules on Performance & Character Animation Techniques; Animation Studio Skills; Applying Animation; Making it Move and Creative Enterprise & Employment, and other areas of our core curriculum, including the final year Dissertation, depending on your areas of expertise and experience. Experience in professional Animation and an understanding of sustainable production practices would be a distinct advantage. We particularly welcome experience in character animation performance across all animation formats, including physical media, stop-motion and digital 2D/3D.

You will be expected to contribute to the research activities of one of our Research Units and meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence exercise.

This vacancy is for two Lecturer in Animation post: 0.6 Animation practitioner (2-D, character) & 0.4 Animation practitioner (3-D CGI), Part time (15 or 22 hours per week). 

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Matthew Pateman, Head of the Media Department at Matthew.Pateman@edgehill.ac.uk.

About you

You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience.

You will have 2D experience and knowledge in:

• Animation across a range of production formats including 2-D character/performance animation, and traditional/physical media.
• Working with stop-motion animation and fabrication would be an advantage
• Links to professional animation and creative industry networks
• Animation production pipelines, particularly within 2-D animation production
• Toon Boom Harmony rigging and frame by frame processes

You will have 3D experience and knowledge in:

• 3-D CGI animation across a range of production formats including Maya, Cinema 4D
• World building in 3-D CGI using real-time 3-D creation tools, Unreal Engine experience would be an advantage
• Character construction, rigging and animation using 3-D CGI Maya

To be successful you will further enrich our student’s experience through your expertise and subject knowledge as evidenced through your qualifications and extensive experience of professional practice. In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & benefits

• A minimum of 48 days annual leave per annum, pro rata. (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Access to a range of CPD to support your career development, with three defined pathways for progression.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources.
• Automatic enrolment into the Teacher’s Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 23.68%
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.

About us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

Advert information