Senior Lecturer (Fashion Design)

Company: Victoria College of Arts and Design

Reports to: Deputy Dean of Arts and Design

Location: ON-SITE, London, UK

Salary Range: £50,000 per annum

Employment Type: Full Time

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Overview

As a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria College of Arts & Design, you are expected to play a key role in delivering high-quality, practice-based material while maintaining and continuously enhancing the high standards of teaching, mentoring, and academic support that we aim to provide for our students. You will play a key role in designing, delivering, and assessing undergraduate and/or postgraduate modules and programmes. In particular, the role requires an understanding of contemporary creative fashion practice with an active contribution to industry. You will be expected to encourage students to explore concept development, research, experimentation and professional presentation, supporting them in translating creative ideas into resolved outcomes that reflect current industry contexts and design cultures. This position is ideal for someone who has strong expertise in design and the supply chain with the ability to champion individual design directions grounded in global contexts and high-level criticality. You will also need to be a flexible team player who excels in a dynamic environment and is confident to deliver across alternative units as skills allow.

Key Responsibilities

• Teaching and Module Delivery: Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality, student-centred lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops for assigned modules. Utilise a range of best-practice teaching methods to support various learning styles, fostering engagement and inclusivity. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of subject areas, ensuring course content is relevant, current, and aligned with contemporary industry practice and research insight.
• Assessment and Feedback: Design, manage and assess formative and summative coursework assignments, ensuring flexibility, fairness, transparency, and relevance. Provide succinct, constructive, coherent and timely feedback to students, using written, recorded or written media, designed to aid students in their academic reflection, progress and development of core skills. Ensure that grading and feedback is in line with best practice and standards across the English Higher Education sector.
• Student Support and Guidance: Act as an academic advisor and mentor to students, providing guidance on academic matters and supporting their professional aspirations. Organise and participate in student engagement activities and additional, non-curricular, learning and academic integrity support sessions. Address individual student needs, such as reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities, and refer to appropriate support services as necessary.
• Curriculum and Module Development: Work collaboratively with faculty, management, students and external stakeholders to develop, modify and enhance curricula so that it always reflects contemporary industry and academic trends. As appropriate, devise, design, manage and deliver the continuous improvement of teaching resources, such as updating reading lists, case studies, practical equipment, practical exercises, and online learning content. Participate, as appropriate and when requested, in all Academic Development Committees including curriculum review committees, considering such things as the development of new and revised programmes. Integrate practice-based learning and develop an ongoing visiting lecturer programme with a focus on student outcomes and employability.
• Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement: Adhere to all VCAD and Partner institution policies, procedures, and quality assurance standards. Engage in peer review processes to improve and share good practices across teaching methods. Participate in teaching observation and evaluation processes to ensure good quality support, development and enhancement of teaching practice across faculty.
• Professional Development: Participate in professional development activities, keeping abreast of innovations and developments within the field of higher education teaching and learning and regulatory requirements.
• Administrative and Departmental Responsibilities: Undertake, as required, administrative duties related to teaching, timetable management, module coordination, course management, marking, grading and other associated administrative tasks concerned with the efficient running of the Board, as well as any other appropriate duties reasonably requested by your line manager, including attendance and participation in departmental meetings. Actively contribute to departmental goals and participate in activities such as open days, student recruitment, induction events, knowledge transfer and other outreach work. Support VCAD initiatives, such as diversity and inclusion efforts, digital learning, and community collaboration.
• Staff Management Responsibilities: Holders of any Lecturer post will have line management responsibilities as per their various and occasional non-substantive role, such as module or programme leader. These roles will be recognised through such procedures as remission of teaching hours or honorarium payments and will be reasonably negotiated with the Academic Dean and VCAD Director and in keeping with established VCAD policy.

Qualifications & Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree (Essential)
• Confidence and Ability to communicate complex information to a class of students (Essential)
• Ability to utilise a range of digital platforms, in particular Microsoft Office / 365 (Essential)
• Enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience of your specialist area (Essential)
• Ability to use Adobe Creative Suite software – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro (Desirable)
• A working knowledge of the photography studio (Desirable)
• Relevant professional experience in an associated or appropriate area of practice (Desirable)
• Experience of Teaching (Desirable)
• Knowledge of the Higher Education sector in England (Desirable)
• A Master’s Degree (Desirable)

Annual leave (7.2 weeks), Company Sick Policy, Statutory maternity/paternity pays, Training and self-development opportunities, Grocery discounts, Cycle to work, Investing and savings opportunities.