Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graphic Communication Design
Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £46.14 (Enhanced Rate, per hour) £20.51 (Basic Rate, per hour)
Contract: Hourly paid
Hours: Hourly paid
Job description
The opportunity
The Graphic Communication Design Programme at Central Saint Martins is inviting recent BA and MA graduates with a passion for teaching and learning who are interested in contributing further to the GCD community to apply for the role of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) on BA (Honours) Graphic Communication Design and/or MA Graphic Communication Design.
The role may include:
- Mentoring current students by sharing their experiences of understanding briefs, developing creative processes and demonstrating how their work meets assessment requirements and learning outcomes.
- Assisting lecturers with running classroom sessions and workshops.
- Facilitating students as part of other kinds of course and programme activities.
GTAs play an important role in helping students see how parts of the courses connect together, including helping build a sense of continuity between lectures, briefs, work-in-progress feedback from tutors and peers and final crits.
About you
This role is open to candidates who have recently completed their BA or MA (2023 or later) in Graphic Communication Design, or the equivalent. Interested candidates should upload a CV and cover letter by clicking "Apply" below. The CV should list your recent educational and professional experience (including dates and institutions/organisations). In your cover letter, please provide a paragraph or two explaining why you are interested in the role and how it relates to your skills, experience and interests.
Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed and, if considered to be appointable, added to a pool of potential GTAs that may then be called upon at various points during the 2024-25 academic year for short hourly-paid engagements.
The closing date for applications is August 14th at 23:55 BST (London time). Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview in early-September (provisionally September 13th & 16th).
If you have any queries about the process to apply for this role please email the CSM Resourcing Team at: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.
If you wish to have a discussion about the specific requirements of role, please do feel free to contact Kira Salter, Course Leader – BA Graphic Communication Design, at: k.salter@csm.arts.ac.uk
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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