Tutor

Description:

We are seeking a Tutor in Visual Communication in Fashion to join our dynamic team who will contribute to the students' educational journey, bringing their experience to inspire the next generation of fashion talent. We seek applicants with industry expertise in branding, editorial design, typography, colour theory, print production, motion graphics, UX/UI, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Blender and the impact culture, sustainability, emerging technologies and ethics has on fashion communication.

As a Tutor in Visual Communication in Fashion, you will support the School Education Lead, Programme Leaders and Module Leads in delivering high quality teaching and achieving key education outcomes. This includes enhancing student engagement, progression while contributing to curriculum development, assessment and feedback quality, and a strong sense of community and belonging across programmes.

You will play a vital pastoral and academic role, acting as a first point of contact for students requiring additional support, offering guidance and signposting to relevant services where needed.

You should be able to demonstrate broad visual communication expertise including but not limited to: graphic designing a wide variety of visual communication assets for on and offline marketing channels such, web, social media platforms, printed materials such as out of home and publications. Advanced skills of the Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Blender and Figma are required. A knowledge and or experience of using emerging technologies and software such as generative AI, AR/VR, digital platforms such as web 3, to create visual communication assets would be advantageous. Your experience does not have to specifically be from a fashion background, although we would seek assurance through the application process that you could apply your broader graphic design expertise in a fashion context.

About The Candidate

The successful applicant will have:

Essential Skills
 

• A good first degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent qualifications.
• Expertise in visual communication / graphic design
• An understanding of metric relevant to higher education
   

Desirable
 

• A PGCE, Certificate of Education, PGCLTHE or membership of the Higher Education Academy.
• Experience of providing academic support to students.