Course Leader - MA Fine Art

The opportunity

Chelsea College of Art is seeking a Course Leader for the MA Fine Art programme.

Reporting to the Art Programme Director, you will provide academic vision, leadership, and management for the course. This includes maintaining and enhancing standards, overseeing the design, development, and delivery of the curriculum and managing the day-to-day operations of the course.

As Course Leader, you will leverage your substantial professional experience in the international art world to prepare students for ambitious graduate futures in the global cultural sectors. Collaborating with a dynamic team, you will develop industry-focused pedagogies and enhance the curriculum in innovative directions.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a track record of student-focused postgraduate level curriculum design, higher education management, and quality assurance. Sociality orientated pedagogies and team building are essential, as is a proven ability to initiate and develop collaborations with industry and education partners.

About you

You will have an established track record of teaching and management in the higher education sector at postgraduate level, with experience of working with substantial and culturally diverse cohorts. You will have experience in team building and possess excellent professional networks to draw from to design and deliver a course with dynamic international profile.

Your internationally established practice in the contemporary arts sector will demonstrate your recognised expertise in your field. You will have an astute understanding of a broad range of art practices, histories, contexts, and global graduate destinations. Knowledge of contemporary art and theory from non-European regions is desirable.

You will be well-organised, inspirational, have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You are a confident and engaging public speaker with an inclusive, initiative-driven, and professional approach to working with others.

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 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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Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Patti Ellis, Programme Director for Fine Art Chelsea / p.n.ellis@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.

If you have any general questions or require any reasonable adjustments, please get in touch with Christine Crouch, Resourcing Advisor via jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk.

Closing date: 18 July 2024 23:55.

Our culture

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.

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