Course Leader ba

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Full time

The Design and Material Practices Programme within the Design School invites applications for the Course Leader BA (Hons) Textile Design role based at Chelsea College of Arts.

You'll contribute to the senior management team and work collaboratively with the Programme Director, Dean and senior colleagues.

You'll be an inspiring leader, confident in leading a large staff team and student cohort and implementing visionary change through the newly re-approved course structure.

You'll have a broad range of expertise in Textile Design in two or more of the following:
stitch, knit, weave, print, smart/e-textiles, responsible design, digital storytelling, mixed media, moving image, emerging technologies, or bio-design.

You'll devise projects, negotiate live projects with external organisations, delivering dynamic briefings and teaching sessions to large and small groups of students, lead and support work-in-progress exhibitions, monitor student progress and assess work.

About you


You'll be an experienced Course Leader or Senior Lecturer with an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Textile Design or associated subject.

You'll have excellent organisational and communication skills combined with leadership and management experience.

You'll be a leading practitioner and educator with an appetite for developing Textile Design education fit for future purpose and engaging staff and students in the course's new journey.

You'll maintain strong links with design practitioners from a wide range of professions, subjects and disciplines and build collaborative links with a range of institutions and employers.

You'll bring innovative pedagogic directions to teaching, learning and assessment in Textile Design and implement diverse and inclusive approaches.

As a champion of UAL's principles of justice, you will strengthen the course's ambitions in embedding these into the curriculum.

Please review the attached job description and person specification for full details of skillset and role requirements.

The scheduled interview date is 18 September 2024.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Caryn Simonson, Programme Director for Textile Design/

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Adrienne Marsh, Resourcing Adviser at

Working at 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 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth 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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