Job Description

Grade UE06: Salary Range 34,610 to 39,906 Pro-rata.

Applications are invited for a Guaranteed Hours (GH), open ended contract as a Tutor in Product Design on the following courses:

DESI10143 Product Design: Professional Practice (20 Credits) (118 hours)

The Opportunity:

We are seeking to appoint a Tutor with experience of Product Design practice, to join a team of teaching staff contributing to learning and teaching at undergraduate level. The successful candidate will assist with teaching, assessment and feedback in a specific course in relation to Professional Practice, within Product Design, at Edinburgh College of Art. The course has specified learning outcomes and sits within the undergraduate BA(Hons) Product Design programme. Click here to access the full job description

Your skills and attributes for success:

A candidate with extensive industry experience as a product designer or design manager. Ability to work within a team with a collegial attitude, respect and sensitivity toward students and other staff members. Ability to apply professional practice experience from real life situations to enhance student understanding Experience of working in HE at undergraduate level in a design discipline. An enthusiastic, positive, and creative approach to teaching

In addition to a full cv/resume, please provide a covering letter describing your interest and detailing why you wish to be considered for the role

About the Team

Edinburgh College of Art is a large and diverse school within the University of Edinburgh's College of Humanities and Social Science. It comprises Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.


Our mission is to promote world-leading critical enquiry across all these subject areas through scholarly research, teaching and creative practice.


Over 3,000 students and 800 staff study and work at ECA and we enjoy strong relationships with museums, galleries, archives, practitioners and industry partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and internationally.

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.


We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, and wish to particularly encourage applications from women and from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, who are underrepresented at this level. As a member of our team, you will benefit from mentoring and development programmes, local EDI Committees and related activities, staff support networks such as Disabled Staff Network, Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Staff BAME Network, Staff Pride Network, and knowledge networks such as GenderEd and RaceEd.


Interviews will be held at a time to be determined later.


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

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role.

International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Tier 2/Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative existing right to work in the UK.