Part Time Art & Design Tutor

Part Time Art & Design Tutor
Walthamstow, East London
£27,810 – £33,000pa Pro Rata* (depending on experience)

Our client is a well-established and expanding creative industry training provider with more than twenty years’ experience of delivering positive outcomes for learners. We require a tutor with experience of teaching, and with relevant experience of practitioner work and qualifications in the field. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a successful and growing department, within a supportive framework. Candidates will have maths and English at GCSE grade C / 4 or above and will be educated to degree level with evidence of outstanding practice working in a similar environment.

Key Responsibilities

• To work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of young people.
• Plan and deliver exciting lessons that support learner retention, qualification achievement and progression.
• Ensure the course has a wide range of enrichment including guest speakers and trips.
• Complete learner one to one tutorials and individual learning plans.
• Use a range of assessment methods and feedback ensuring the learners are inspired to progress.
• To empathise with and understand the many challenges faced by young adults in a demographic with high free school meals rate and poverty levels.
• To inspire these learners by developing lessons that can relate to and build on their needs and interests.
• Experience of working in the creative industries using an entrepreneurial approach.
• Develop innovative ways of project collaboration, within the department and with other courses in the college.
• Experience of working professionally in a relevant industry.
• Extremely organised and able to manage own workload effectively and flexibly.
• Highly motivated and driven to succeed in a competitive and rewarding environment.
• Outstanding teaching and communication skills and experience of good / outstanding Ofsted.
• Positive, solution focused and proactive in managing and responding to data.
• Assertive and self-confident in management of the learning environment.
• Committed and willing to “go the extra mile” to meet targets.
• Ambitious – will not settle for less than outstanding standards of work and behaviour.

Requirements

• Have the ability to teach about the use and application of a range of materials and processes within art and design.
• Know systems of measurement for translating 3D subjects into 2D drawings, knowing how a range of light sources affect the appearance and meaning of subjects.
• Have experience in using a range of media to record the effects of light on subjects
• Be able to use materials, processes and technical skills in 2D and 3D art and design.
• PGCE level or equivalent (desirable)

Benefits

• Supportive, developmental environment with a creative and innovative approach to education
• Be part of a successful and expanding organisation with a pension and healthcare cash plan.
• Internal and external CPD opportunities that are tailored to their progression aims.
• We offer 32 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (40 in total) – pro-rata for part time roles.
• Free on-site lunches during term-time

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.