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Specialist Technician (Learning & Teaching) Design & Prototyping
Vacancy ID
12357
College/Exec Group
Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges
Location
CCW - Millbank, London UK
Salary
£40,199 - £49,072 per annum
Contract
Permanent
Hours
35
Apply by
22 March 2026, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
We have an opportunity for you to join our team of Specialist Technicians to help support students on relevant design courses across our CCW Camberwell and Chelsea sites.
As a Specialist Technician (Learning & Teaching), you’ll directly enrich students’ learning by teaching key technical skills that inform the design process through formal sessions, troubleshooting issues in 1:1 tutorials, and providing constructive feedback helps students produce strong final outcomes.
The Interior Futures Technical Team are a close group of designers, architects and makers with wide-ranging specialist skillsets and backgrounds. We work together to support each other and provide students with the tools to create and communicate a high standard of work that reflects the quality of a UAL education.
As a member of a Studio Technical Team, you’ll work closely with Academic course teams to co-deliver to students within course spaces. Guided by course briefs and schedules, you’ll develop and tailor delivery sessions that help students use appropriate techniques, materials and processes in both digital and traditional prototyping and design communication to meet unit requirements.
Working primarily at Chelsea with occasional days at Camberwell, you’ll gain broad and varied experience of the teams and cultures within CCW. Whilst there will be a schedule arranged by the Studio Manager, there is autonomy within the role, allowing you to self-direct your time, plan learning support, and contribute to the smooth running of specialist spaces, including maintaining equipment, supporting safe working practices and ensuring they remain well organised.
Ultimately, the role enables you to work alongside fellow creatives in an environment where development of your own practice is encouraged and supported, allowing you to impart that knowledge and experience on students, directly influencing and enhancing their education and overall university experience.
Your profile
If you have a BA level or equivalent qualification in an area such as Product & Furniture Design or 3D Fabrication, you’d be perfect for the role. A PG Cert in Creative Education or relevant experience working in a Higher Education institution would be a bonus.
We need you to have strong technical knowledge of using CAD and 3D visualisation software such as Fusion 360, Rhino 3D & Keyshot, and to use these programmes alongside an applied understanding of design workflows to support students from concept through to prototyping and making.
You’ll need solid practical fabrication skills, with good understanding of practices in traditional studio environments, including equipment use, material knowledge & helping maintain safe, well-run making spaces. Industry experience within a relevant product/furniture design company or workshop would be a plus.
Above all we’re looking for a motivated, reliable and passionate individual, who is confident communicating effectively to various groups and has an enthusiastic approach to supporting and engaging with students, enabling them to get the most out of their educational endeavours.
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Closing date: 22 March 2026
Scheduled interview date: 15 April 2026
Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Tilly Shenstone, Studio Manager (Interior Futures) t.shenstone@arts.ac.uk
Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact CCW.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk
We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.
As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.
We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.
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