Technical Manager

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK
Salary: £50,961 to £61,398 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

We are looking for a Technical manager to join our Technical Management Team at London College of Communications. We have a wide range of technical workshops including Printmaking, Book arts, Letterpress, Print & Finishing, Digital Print, Sound, Digital Arts, Film & TV Studios, Journalism, Coms & Media, Photography, Emerging Technology Hub and an expanding 3D Workshop. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the daily operations of a selection of these technical teams and technical workshops, dependent on your skills and experience. Working closely with the Head of Technical Resources, you will offer them strategic leadership and operational management to enhance student experiences, improve teaching quality and elevate the impact of knowledge exchange initiatives.

London College of Communications is currently embarking on an exciting and ambitious project, to build a new building in Elephant & Castle. You will have the opportunity to feed into this project and help design and deliver brand-new, purpose-built facilities that will support and help shape the future of education in communications.

If you would like any further information on the role, please contact technical.enquiries@lcc.arts.ac.uk

About you

You are a dynamic leader with a proven record of nurturing technical teams and developing technical spaces, ideally within educational sector. You lead with empathy, encourage professional growth and actively support diversity, equity, and inclusion. You are knowledgeable about Health & Safety compliance and dedicated to adhering to regulatory standards. You are passionate about supporting student learning, improving the student experience and developing technical spaces. You keep up to date with sector trends and enjoy researching technological advances to ensure the technical spaces you manage remain at the cutting edge of the creative education.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser, lcc.jobs@lcc.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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