Sustainable Design Leader BA Honours Product Design

Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £50,961.00 - £61,398.00 pro rata per annum
Contract: Permanent
Term: Part time – 14.8 hours per week

We are looking for a Sustainable Design Leader across stages of BA Product Design at Central Saint Martins. This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and dynamic course team on an internationally renowned course that promotes creative experimentation, academic research and critical practice.

The BA Product and Industrial Design course is committed to exploring product design as a practice encompassing the fields of FMCG, furniture, consumer products and service design. Our large and internationally diverse body of staff, students and alumni lead industry, transform traditional practices and expand the wider discipline. Agile and cross-disciplinary practitioners, our staff and students are ambitious to engage audiences, apply ideas and challenge convention.

This Sustainable Design Leader post involves responsibility for the operational and academic management across stages of BA Product and Industrial Design, but is largely a teaching role into the course. It includes providing the academic overview, strategic leadership and coordinating monitoring across the stages, providing pastoral and academic support, with engagement with the process and parity of assessment and feedback. This large course currently is concerned with developing opportunities for students to work collaboratively across sectors and disciplines, with potential for building external relationships, enterprise and event opportunities.

About you

You possess excellent communication and organisational skills and have a track record of working effectively as part of a team. You have experience of teaching, leadership and management within a higher education environment, and strong skills in strategic planning, implementation and delivery. You bring initiative and agility and enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You demonstrate expertise in teaching and learning and in providing excellence in student support.

You have an established practice and/or a professional profile in product design or a related discipline. You are actively engaged with current discipline debates and in developing research that will contribute to the growing research culture of the Product Design Programme. You bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of product design.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (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.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 17 October 2024 at 23:55.

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.