Lecturer in Dance

0.6FTE, 22.2 hours per week

Fixed term contract until 01/08/2025

Here at the University of Gloucestershire, we study the theory of dance through practice.

Our teaching is intensely practical, with real world partnerships, projects and productions.  We strive to support our students to get out into the world with the right skills to help them become visible, viable practitioners of dance in its many forms and variations.

We are proud to have created an ethos which both stretches and supports our students, challenging them to be the best possible creative dancers and practitioners they can be, in line with the University’s key pillars of careers, connections and community.

We are now looking for new people to join our highly creative team: you will be teaching across our BA Dance course, engaging our students with their ever-evolving craft and the arts sector more widely. You will join a team of experts and practitioners of dance and teach on courses which are being constantly refined to bring out the best in our students.

We work flexibly, we are innovative, and we want to emulate best practice.

We need practitioners and academics with expertise in the following areas:

• Commercial Dance Techniques
• Jazz Dance Techniques
• Creating performance work/choreography

We are also interested in meeting practitioners with experience of other dance techniques.

We can offer a 1 year Fixed Term Contract, or if you have a particular specialism and only want to concentrate on that, we can employ you as a part time hourly paid lecturer, which will allow you flexibility to cover your own expertise. We want people to join our team who will bring a contemporary understanding of current practice and who can motivate and enthuse our students to be the best they can be. Your experience as a dance practitioner matters to us and teaching experience is essential. Teaching would begin in September 2024, but there is room to negotiate your start date with us.

To find out more about what it is like to work in the School of Creative Arts, please click here

If you would like to have an informal conversation about what we’re looking for please contact Rachael Bock, Academic Course Leader of Dance on rbock@glos.ac.uk 

Key dates

Closing date: Sunday 18^th of August midnight

Interview date: Tuesday 3^rd September

To Apply

To apply please click on 'Apply' at the top of this page, you will be asked to submit a CV along with a Supporting Statement that addresses how you meet the essential criteria.  CVs alone will not be considered.

Please make it clear which job you are applying for.

To avoid disappointment please apply early, should we find a suitable candidate we will close the advert.

The University is committed to building a diverse and inclusive staff community and welcomes applications from currently under-represented sections of our workforce. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, guaranteeing an interview to everyone who meets the definition of disability set out in the Equality Act 2010 and the essential criteria contained within the person specification. 

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