Tutor

Grade UE06: £32,982.00 to £38,205.00 Per Annum, Pro-rata

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

DESI08088:What’s Up Doc?Introducing Animation Studies

A minimum of 70 hours will be offered between September 2024 and July 2025 with a variable guarantee renewed annually.

The Opportunity:

Animation, within the Design department at Edinburgh College of Art is looking for a GH tutor experienced in the teaching of animation theory/history to fill a tutoring position across one large elective course at undergraduate level. The successful candidate will assist with teaching, assessment and feedback from the start of the 2024 academic year. The course runs in semester one and the tutor will run several seminars facilitating discussions and marking written assessments. The course has specified learning outcomes and sit within the undergraduate BA (Hons) Animation programme as well as being open to the wider University as an elective. The tutor will work across year groups, supporting the learning across an established programme within the School of Design at Edinburgh College of Art.

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Your skills and attributes for success:

• Experience of teaching animation theory and history and assessing critical writing (Desirable).
• Ability to work within a team with a collegial attitude, respect and sensitivity toward students and other staff members.
• Knowledge of key issues and debates in animation studies, both historic and contemporary.
• 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 pagefor further information.

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 right to work in the UK.