Faculty Technician

The School of Design, Arts & Creative Industries require a Senior Technician to support students, staff and stakeholders across the Design and Arts Makerspaces, Printmaking studio and software support. The post holder will be required to work across a number of creative areas within the school, providing specialist technical support in workshops and studio spaces, with special emphasis on the management of safe working practices in workshops and associated equipment.

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Whilst the role is advertised at full time, we are able to consider applications from candidates who wish to work between 29.6 and 37 hours per week.

This is a fixed term role for 8 months.

The role will be part of the overall DACI technical team helping to support students from across the school. On a day to day basis you will be part of a smaller specialist team of four delivering specialist teaching in the area as highlighted in the JD. This will be based predominately in the Squires building but may require occasional working in CCE
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To be successful in the role you should have comprehensive knowledge of current technical practice relevant to Design and Contemporary Arts as outlined in the Job Description. As part of a large technical team, with excellent interpersonal skills, you will have experience of developing and delivering demonstration activities to support learning outcomes and provide excellent student experiences. Keeping up-to-date with current and forthcoming technical developments in support of learning, teaching, research and enterprise activity in the faculty is essential to be successful in the role.

You should be qualified to degree level or equivalent professional experience in one or more of the practice-based subjects outlined in

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