Lecturer in Animation and Games Design

Please study the items in this person specification carefully and when completing your application form try to describe your knowledge, skills and experience in terms of those particular items:

1. Have relevant vocational and teaching qualifications along with experience of teaching digital animation, games design, visual effects and imaging and traditional animation areas at FE level or have relevant industry experience.

2. Possess a Literacy and Numeracy qualification at Level 2

3. Show commitment to and be able to provide evidence of continuous professional development and demonstrate its impact on teaching and learning.

4. Able to demonstrate ability to motivate students and commitment to a student centred approach to learning, with the ability to respond to the needs of students from a wide range of learning Backgrounds

5. Possess the Training, Assessment & Quality Assurance (TAQA) qualifications for assessors and verifiers or be committed to attaining these awards.

6. Possess or being willing to gain the OSCA 2 award for lead interval verification.

7. Be able to work as part of a team.

8. Possess good communication skills.

9. Be able to work to deadlines.

10. Possess appropriate IT skills relevant to the post, or be willing to undertake training.

11. Have an awareness and understanding of Safeguarding, Prevent and how to embed these into the curriculum

12. Have an awareness and understanding of equal opportunities.

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We are a values-based and highly inclusive college, serving a vibrant and diverse area, and making a positive contribution to wider social and economic agendas. We offer courses from pre-entry through to Higher Education, Apprenticeship and Traineeship programmes to meet the skills needs of our students aged 14 upwards.

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Taking Teaching Further

West Thames College is working in partnership with Taking Teaching Further (TTF).

TTF provides funding to support FE providers to recruit and provide early career support to those with the relevant knowledge and industry experience to retrain as FE teachers. Funding supports recruitment across the 15 technical routes, the core skills that underpin good technical education (English and maths) and for recruits who will provide support to students with special educational needs and disabilities.

TTF is a two-year programme and funding is provided to cover the cost of recruits undertaking a teaching qualification, the provider to deliver mentoring support, and to allow the recruits to have a reduced timetable by covering the costs of backfilling.

For TTF 2023, we are piloting a financial incentive for recruits, which is available in addition to the TTF support offer, for TTF recruits who are recruited to teach in some of the most hard-to-fill subjects (digital; construction and the built environment; engineering and manufacturing; and maths). Eligible recruits will receive a £6,000 incentive payment: £3,000 at the end of year one of the programme and £3,000 at the end of year two of the programme.

More information on TTF found here: Taking Teaching Further programme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The purpose of the post is:

To teach Animation and Games Design on a variety of FE & HE programmes ranging level 1 to 5 within the Art & Design and Media curriculum areas with course leader responsibility for one or more courses. The packages currently used are Maya, Unity, After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Animate, Illustrator, Premiere and Sculptris.