Lecturer In Print With Particular Expertise Intaglio/etching

Part-Time Lecturer in Print with particular expertise in Intaglio/Etching

School/Unit: School of Fine Art, Department of Print

Post Title & Subject Area: Part-Time Lecturer in Print with particular expertise in Intaglio/Etching

Hours of Work: 258 hours, 2 days per week, during term time with the exception of 2 days allocated for assessments.

Post Duration: Specified purpose contract backfilling maternity leave from 18thNovember 2024 until 30th May 2025

Grade: Part-Time Lecturer

Reports to: Head of Department

Salary: Part-Time Lecturer Hourly Rate - €64.56 per hour

NCAD drives radical and creative innovation through excellence in research-led art and design education. It empowers its students to shape the contemporary world through critical practice, studio-based learning, research and engagement

The School of Fine Art within the College comprises of 5 departments:

● Department of Painting

● Department of Print

● Department of Media

● Department of Applied Materials

● Department of Sculpture and Expanded Practices

The School of Fine Art supports students to develop highly individual and collaborative ways of seeing, interpreting, and acting visually in the world. Emphasis is placed on visual awareness and artistic analysis, and on acquiring and deploying appropriate skills across a spectrum of fundamental and new materials and media.

Academic staff actively contribute to the teaching and learning, research and commercialisation/knowledge transfer and internationalisation agendas of the College

The NCAD Strategy is a key component of institutional alignment

The NCAD Strategy:

To Embed Bold and Curious Learning at our Core

To Connect and be Connected

To be an Effective Organisation

Vision - Changing the world through bold and curious learning, thinking and doing

Values - Bold and Curious Thinking - Distinction - Diversity - Respect - Relevance

https://www.ncad.ie/about/strategic-plan/

Research is an important dimension of NCAD staff engagement and knowledge

https://www.ncad.ie/research-and-innovation/research-directions-1/

These posts will be an integral part of the academic management/leadership within the discipline, Department, School and College.

School of Fine Art – Department of Print

The Print Department offers both studio space and significant workshop capacity that supports an expanding range of approaches and outputs. The Department is a popular undergraduate choice for undergraduate study,

Spanning autographic arts, mechanical reproduction and digital media, print actively interlocks with a broad range of disciplines whilst evolving distinctive approaches to art making. Teaching embraces older technologies and contemporary approaches to image making and reproduction, whilst expanding further frameworks and sites for making and dissemination. This may embrace known and alternative means including still and moving image, performance, digitally commanded manifestations, public sites, collaboration and co-production.

The ethos of the Department is to foster, maintain and enable contemporary print practice from traditional and historical methods to the most up-to-date digital production, while working in both two and three dimensions. We are interested in the culture of print in its broadest sense and its potential as an iterative method in the evolution, development and dissemination of artwork. To that end, teaching supports the wider remit of art practice of embracing both open ended and dynamic exploration in relation to teacher generated projects and learner generated briefs, with an awareness of contemporary forces and themes that are manifest and evolving.

Assistant Lecturers will be expected to enable a range of learning approaches embracing blended teaching and learning, through workshops, crits, seminars, and tutorials.

Assistant Lecturers will be expected to support teaching at different levels of the BA and Postgraduate Programmes that may include Year 1 and MFA study as required

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· The candidate will deliver teaching in print in the specific area of etching/intaglio and contemporary photo-intaglio process.

· Update and coordinate content on CANVAS – the students’ Virtual Learning Environment.

· Be interested in developing ways in which the medium may expand into hybrid and rapid prototyping processes through engagement with the NCAD William Walsh Workshop (Laser engraving, CNC Routing, 3D printing etc).

· Actively contribute to the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the School of Fine Art, and in the Print Department including module or programme design and delivery, examination and assessment, quality assurance and enhancement and associated administration.

· Develop and implement new course curriculum within the Print Department, including the co-ordination of course content, delivery and assessment.

· Enhance and promote the reputation of our academic provision by liaising and co-operating with other national and international institutions.

· Ensure the curriculum content of our programmes reflect and meet with the requirements of a variety of models of Fine Art fields of practice and momentum, including regularly reviewing and adapting course content and structure.

· Engage in the student recruitment process including interviews, selection, assessments and examination procedures as required to ensure appropriate number and level of student cohort.

· Engage with industry and research partners, leading projects and knowledge exchange activities.

· Participate in Department/School/College committees and boards.

· Undertake such other duties as may be assigned by the Appropriate Officer from time to time.

Selection Criteria

Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post. Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.

Mandatory:

· A significant track record in Fine Art facing contemporary print practices, particularly in the area of etching/intaglio and photo-intaglio processes, and Higher Education teaching.

· Post-graduate degree in Fine Art or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

· A minimum of 3 years industry and/or teaching experience.

· Experience of delivering high quality teaching within a higher education environment or equivalent.

· Capacity and enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary context within the Department, School and College.

· Proficiency in digital software.

· Experience in working with digital and analogue print workshop outputs and in maintaining an active interest in related developments within the sector.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

· Strong leadership skills.

Desirable:

· Demonstrable record of developing and maintain intercollegiate links.

· Demonstrable record of developing industry partnerships.

· Ability to design, deliver and assess a range of modules in and related to specialist areas of research/professional interest.

· Commitment to CPD and interest in emerging research, technology and techniques

Closing Date- 8th of November 2024