Mac Lab Technician Digital Design & Adobe Workshops

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Division: Media, Communication and Performing Arts

Duration: Open-Ended

Hours: 17.88 hours per week (0.5

FTE)

Grade/Salary
:
Grade 5 (£29,588 -£33,002 pro rata, with possible progression to £35,608 pro rata)

: CVMC
05529A

The Division of Media, Communication and Performing Arts (MCPA) seeks to appoint two new positions on Scotland’s newest graphic design degree BA(Hons) Digital and Graphic Design. We wish to recruit a MAC technician to support the new design students with set-up, maintenance and support of QMU’s new MAC suite. We also wish to recruit a lecturer in Digital Design to share the teaching of the first three graphic design modules in this new programme in QMU’s new MAC suite.

QMU has a long track record of delivering industry-relevant Media, Marketing and Arts degrees. You would be joining an established team of design and media academics to teach on/support BA(Hons) Digital and Graphic Design’s first cohort of undergraduate students.

You would contribute to the delivery of the first-year modules to provide digital graphic design students with the fundamental grounding in core digital graphic design practical, contextual and technical skill sets.

The successful MAC technician candidate will combine MAC‑based technical knowledge with up-to-date industry-relevant skills in setting up and maintaining a MAC suite for design students, and an ability to run Adobe Creative Suite software workshops for HE design students.

The MAC technician post holder would primarily focus on setting up and maintaining QMU’s new MAC suite, supporting students with MAC‑based hardware and software throughout the academic year and demonstrating the main Adobe Creative Suite software in workshops.

MAC technician applicants would benefit from MAC‑based technical skills, trouble‑shooting and Adobe Creative Suite software demonstration experience.

Specific modules that the postholder may contribute to include:

• Digital Design 101
• Designing for Audiences

The closing date for this position is 22 July 2026

This role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UKVI to enable sponsorship of migrant workers. Therefore, we can not progress applications from candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.