Technical Instructor (22 hours per week) - Fixed Term
School of Art and Media
| Location: |
Brighton - City Campus |
| Salary: |
£31,236 to £34,610
pro rata
|
| Fixed Term End Date: |
03/08/2026 |
| Closing Date: |
Sunday 18 January 2026 |
| Reference: |
ME6007-26-002 |
This is an exciting opportunity for a person with book binding skills to be part of a team providing technical resource and demonstration to support teaching activities for the Visual Communication subject area within the School of Art and Media.
You will organise, prepare, and deliver technical inductions and demonstration and provide technical resource support for the academic needs of students and staff. You will also ensure that safe codes of practice are maintained, and current Health and Safety guidelines are adhered to in order to make your work area a safe place for staff, students and visitors
To be effective in this role, you will need:
- The ability to demonstrate a wide range of book binding techniques, including Single section, zig-zag, Multi-section, Coptic, Case Binding
- The ability to operate and maintain hand guillotines, block choppers, operate power guillotines and other book binding machinery
- The ability to explain complex information in an understandable way to a variety of audiences
- The ability to maintain tools and machinery within maintenance schedules.
This is a 6-month fixed term part time contract of 22 hours a week. This job is suitable for job sharing.
The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.
For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.
Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.
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