Programme Leader | BA Fashion Design & Accessories

JCA | London Fashion Academy is a premium higher education provider led by one of the world's most renowned contemporary designers, Prof. Jimmy Choo OBE.

Background:

Based at Boston Manor House, the Academy seeks to find, support and launch entrepreneurial and innovative fashion designers through a couture learner-centred approach that is focused on professional practice delivered within a boutique specialist incubation environment.

The JCA offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in a range of practice-based fashion design and entrepreneurship programmes that allow learners to pursue a very high degree of specialism.

There are two routes available to prospective students: 1) an immersive, professional practice experience with incubation in Mayfair, and 2) a timetabled professional experience within an artisan Maker Space in West London.

Inclusive in its approach, in terms of reach and scholarships given, the Academy seeks to support only the very best and most gifted designers to fulfil their ambitions and transition from higher education into entrepreneurship and/or employment.

As a selective institution, recruitment is based on academic and creative potential expressed through prior qualifications and portfolio and behaviours and attitudes through academic interview and engagement.

The bar is set high but the community is founded on well being.

Overview and Objectives of the Position:

JCA | London Fashion Academy is seeking an exceptional academic leader for the post of Programme Leader to develop and lead the field of Fashion Design and Accessories, enabling learners and wider professional stakeholders to develop their practice on the interconnectivity between garment and accessories design and make.

Reporting to the Director of Teaching and Learning, the successful candidate will lead our BA (Hons) Fashion: Design and Accessories course, teach across a range of modules and programmes, and champion the further development of short courses and specialist pathways.

Staff at the Academy typically come with a story: a past and a present and as such they naturally bring with them professional relationships and high-profile industry contacts that help position the Academy, and crucially, support students in defining and developing their future career paths.

This post would suit practising professionals who wanting to balance a portfolio of education, practice-based research or maintaining their own design practice / enterprise.

As such we will consider candidates who want a full-time position and also those seeking a fractional appointment (with a minimum of 0.6FTE) such that they can continue their own practice.

Ideal candidates would be ambitious, innovative and entrepreneurial and would not only be comfortable with change management, they would positively thrive in exciting dynamic environments.

Critical to the position is the ability to identify, shape and curate the individual learning journey for each of the emerging designers following the course.

Reports to: Director of Teaching and Learning

JCA Culture:

Our academic staff are the best in their field, professionally within fashion, and pedagogically within education. They are also friendly and approachable people. People who want to work with other, similar minded, people – and together, to create a professionally focused learning community.

Lecturers are employed as ‘Mentors’ and deliver more than taught sessions; they interact, engage, and participate with learners and guide the learning journey. They excite, provocate and disrupt ways of thinking. They support, protect and inculcate excellence. However, most of all, they motivate, encourage and inspire.

Being an aspiring Designer at the Academy is much more than being a student it is about setting a direction and being mentored on that journey – from campus to beyond.

How to Apply:

If you feel you have the skills and experience to excel in this position, please click the apply button.

Applications will be reviewed weekly and therefore you are encouraged to apply soon. We look forward to hearing from you.

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