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Unit Leader – MA Creative Leadership
Vacancy ID
12406
College/Exec Group
Central Saint Martins
Location
Hybrid – CSM King’s Cross/Home
Salary
£44,375 - £52,977 pa
Contract
Fixed Term
Hours
14.8 hours per week
Apply by
28 April 2026, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
The Creative Leadership MA at UAL is a fully online course that examines leadership as both an inventive practice and a relational act. It is designed for both emergent and established leaders who have the desire to creatively reframe what it means to lead in the 21st century. We are looking for an experienced educator with specialist knowledge of creative leadership to contribute to developing this new fully online postgraduate programme at Central Saint Martins.
Unit Leaders working in this model of design and development are the primary subject matter experts responsible for defining the curriculum, developing projects and assessment briefs, and for the authoring of course resources.
This is a fixed term opportunity; you’ll work 2 days per week for 8.5 months starting in early June 2026.
The role is to design and develop the content for a specified unit. For information about this please see the Course and Unit briefing document as Additional documents.
Your profile
We are looking for an experienced educator within the emergent discipline of creative leadership. You will draw on your academic knowledge of foundational leadership principles, theories and firsthand experience of creative methods and approaches. You may have taught management, business, entrepreneurship and/or creative practice and theory in a higher education context, or through coaching or professional development. The learning that you develop will guide students to develop confidence and clarity in their self-understanding as creative leaders. The learning materials you will write need to teach students to innovate, problem solve and develop their own ethically informed, critical and reflexive creative leadership identities and to develop the academic skills for postgraduate study.
As a Unit Leader working in this model of design and development you will be the primary subject matter expert responsible for defining theory and practice within the curriculum and planning assessment. You will work closely with a Learning Designer to plan the learning experience and materials and ensure that the unit meets the requirements of our flexible model. You’ll be ready to design dynamic and engaging learning activities for globally dispersed students and to bring in guest speakers, diverse references and case studies to the course materials. You will be willing to present / appear in videos and podcasts and other media content.
You’ll have good team working skills and be ready to work in fast paced and highly collaborative production environment. You don’t need extensive experience of online teaching and learning, but you do need to be open to the advantages of flexible fully online delivery to widen access to Higher Education.
Other key requirements
- Availability to be in London occasionally for filming and occasional meetings
- Use of a personal computer
Please indicate your availability in your application.
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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