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Senior Lecturer
Publicerad 2024-11-16
Job Description
You will provide up-to-date knowledge, expertise and experience of professional practice and have in depth knowledge and understanding of critical, practical and theoretical issues relevant to at least one specialist subject area that contributes to the programmes that we have on portfolio.In the role you will deliver high quality learning opportunities and mentorship to students within a teaching and learning framework which takes into account formal and informal development structures.
Critical to this approach, you will provide mentorship to students who align with your practice and give guidance to students with their educational and professional development.
You may be asked to lead on specific modules and / or themes and contribute to a growing research culture within the subject.
You will naturally bring with you, professional relationships and industry contacts that will enable students in their study and that will help define and develop their future entrepreneurship.
Organisation Background
About usJCA| London Fashion Academy is a unique modern-day undertaking by one of the worlds most renowned contemporary designers, Prof. Dato’ Jimmy Choo OBE.Positioned as an industry leader in the field of fashion education it follows and positively reacts to the developing higher education landscape in the UK and the Ministers call for ‘new and innovative providers opening high quality higher education’.
The Academy seeks to find, support and launch new designers through a couture-styled 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 broad-based subjects 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 a Maker Space in West London.
Inclusive in its approach, the Academy seeks to support only the very best and most gifted designer 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.
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.
Overview and Objectives
JCA | London Fashion Academy is seeking inspirational Associate Lecturers / Visiting Practitioners (AL/VP) to teach on and across our programmes, providing breadth and depth to our subject offer, and extending strength to the academic team.
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