Teaching Fellow in Performance Costume Portfolio - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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UE07 £36,333- £43,155 Per Annum, Pro Rata

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Edinburgh College of Art / School of Design

Open-ended (Permanent)
**Part-time (21 hours per week)
Edinburgh College of Art is seeking an enthusiastic and pro-active individual for the post of Teaching Fellow in Performance Costume Portfolio, Drawing and Costume Illustration

The Opportunity:

The post has a focus on, and responsibility for, educating Performance Costume students in technical costume drawing (through CAD), costume design sketch & illustration methods and costume portfolio techniques.

These skills are core to the Programmes 'Design Book' initiative, which encourages highly personal, innovative, and dynamic approaches to costume presentation and communication, meeting industry-facing professional standards.

The postholder will be required to deliver a range of skills in costume portfolio development and visual communication to students, and to contribute where appropriate to broader cross-disciplinary teaching.

This may also involve contributing to Elective delivery, where required.

The post includes the teaching of industry level technical drawing skills for a full range of professional costume garment types, contemporary illustration & sketching, digital portfolio layouts and typography skills.

The post also involves supporting the School's ongoing vision to embed sustainable and environmentally considerate design practices and solutions at the core of teaching and ongoing curriculum development.

The postholder will also contribute to citizenship and administrative duties across teaching activities, commensurate with the role. In particular, the post-holder will participate actively in supporting external portfolio-based events for the Performance Costume Programme.

Your skills and attributes for success:

You will evidence strong creative and technical ability in Costume technical drawing, Costumer illustration & sketch, and Costume portfolio techniques, desirably with experience of working as a performance costume illustrator within an industry context/setting.
You will be expected to have knowledge and expertise in teaching Performance Costume illustration, CAD and portfolio methods in an educational setting.
You will have an acute understanding of the broader industry contexts of Performance Costume
You will demonstrate experience in promoting equalities, diversity and inclusion within a teaching and learning context, also encouraging students to embed inclusive approaches to human representation through drawing and presentation.
You will demonstrate the ability to encourage diverse and individual drawing styes and presentation techniques across a range of student cohorts, including hand drawn and digital design methods.

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Closing date: 27th June, 11:59PM

As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.