Specialist Technician (Learning & Teaching) Fashion Retail Design and Brand Experience

The opportunity

London College of Fashion is seeking a skilled and creative Technician to play a key role supporting students on the BA (Hons) Fashion Retail Design and Brand Experience course.

The BA (Hons) Fashion Retail Design and Brand Experience course at London College of Fashion is designed for creative individuals who want to shape the future of fashion through innovative retail environments, immersive brand experiences and customer-centred design. Students are challenged to think beyond traditional retail spaces, exploring how physical, digital and hybrid experiences can connect brands with audiences in new and meaningful ways.

As a Specialist Technician, you will play a crucial role in facilitating students' learning and supporting them to design experiences that connect brands with audiences across physical, digital and hybrid retail spaces.

Your key responsibilities will include:

•    Providing hands-on technical support in model-making, prototyping, fabrication and spatial design
•    Delivering practical workshops, demonstrations and technical teaching sessions
•    Guiding students in material experimentation, construction techniques and project development
•    Supporting projects from initial concepts through to digital visualisation, production and installation
•    Providing specialist guidance in 2D and 3D design software, including SketchUp, Blender, TwinMotion and Adobe Creative Suite
•    Helping students explore emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR)
•    Managing specialist workshops, equipment and materials, ensuring safe and effective working practices

You will also collaborate with academic and technical teams on curriculum development, exhibitions and industry projects.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with practical experience in model-making, prototyping and fabrication, alongside strong digital design skills using software such as SketchUp, Blender, TwinMotion and Adobe Creative Suite, or equivalent platforms. 

Your background may be in visual merchandising, retail or spatial design, exhibition design or a related creative discipline. You will bring experience of demonstrating technical processes, a commitment to safe workshop practices and the ability to communicate complex techniques clearly to students with different levels of experience. 

If enjoy sharing your knowledge, working collaboratively and want to help emerging creative talent realise their potential we would be delighted to hear from you.

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.

Application process

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