Teaching Associate Interior Architecture Design

Heriot-Watt University; Dubai; On-site; AED 167,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Heriot-Watt University Dubai seeks a Teaching Associate in Interior Architecture and Design to join the Dubai Campus. The role focuses on teaching across IA&D, developing courses, and fostering industry links while collaborating with UK campuses to enhance student employability.

Applicants should have a Masters degree (PhD desirable) and HE teaching experience, with fluent English and strong communication skills. The position is based at the Dubai Campus with English-taught programmes.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Teaching experience at Higher Education institution
• Clear communicator with good presentation skills explaining concepts well.
• Fluent (verbal and written) in English.
• Good working knowledge of contemporary practices across interior architecture and design.
• An ability to apply knowledge from scholarship or professional practice into teaching materials and methods.
• Willingness to develop independent/collaborative teaching.

Responsibilities

• Lead or oversee the development of existing courses to support industry-facing practices and student employability.
• Teach Interior Architecture and Design across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Collaborate with colleagues at Scottish campuses to deliver high-quality learning and teaching.
• Develop strong links with industry and deliver student project work across campuses as beneficial to students.

Skills

Teaching experience in HE

Clear communicator

Good presentation skills

Fluent in English

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Masters Degree or equivalent

PhD (Desirable)

Job description

Role: Teaching Associate - Interior Architecture and Design

Contract Duration: Open Ended

Grade: 6

Location: Dubai Campus

About our Team

We have staff across two campuses and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate degree education taught and research degrees. We have an energetic research culture and an increasing design research funding portfolio.

You would join an international team at our Dubai Campus where our staff contribute to a forward-thinking environment for teaching learning research enterprise and knowledge exchange. You will further enhance a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our industry-facing focus on careers delivers results and we have an excellent reputation for graduate employability. Our funded research portfolio champions ethics excellence and rigour. Every aspect of business is underpinned by Heriot-Watts pioneering spirit.

The design portfolio on the Dubai campus is growing. We focus on industrial social smart sustainable cities and systemic design. Currently we offer Communication Design Fashion Branding and Promotion Interior Architecture Design and Design Management. They are delivered by passionate and dedicated academics from various backgrounds with distinctly diverse specialisms. As a discipline design is a creative practice with innovative methods. It has many forms of innovation from cultural and environmental to social and technological. Our community is committed to understanding design in contexts such as Climate Change Health Care and Wellbeing NetZero and Future Mobility. All programmes and courses are delivered cooperatively within our Dubai campus and collaboratively with our UK campuses.

TheSchool of Textiles and Design on the Dubai campus is seeking to recruit enthusiastic academics with experience in teaching. Successful candidates will be expected to build their teaching over time and showcase high-quality teaching pedagogies. Successful candidates will also be expected to develop strong links with colleagues at the Scottish campuses to deliver high-quality learning and teaching.

The successful candidate willpossess a broad practical and theoretical knowledge of Interior Architecture and Design and we are particularly interested in candidates with practical digital technologies expertise specific to the field e.g. Revit 3DMax Laser-cutting 3d modelling for interiors while extending to virtual environments using appropriate software such as Blender. Postholders will lead or oversee (as necessary) the development of existing courses to support industry-facing practices and student employability.

Teaching should be grounded in 21st-century design studies with appropriate input from historical theoretical and practical perspectives. Given the broad fast-moving and collaborative nature of todays industries and associated technologies we expect the successful individual to work proactively within and across traditional discipline boundaries. We also expect the successful applicant to cooperatively contribute to teaching existing courses and collaboratively create new ones across the campuses where and as it benefits the student experience.

The role will be based at the Universitys campus in Dubai. Courses and programmes will be delivered in English so fluency in English is essential. All new academic staff will be inducted into Heriot-Watts standards and values and an induction programme will be delivered to give practical experience in preparation delivery and assessment of teaching.

Education and Qualification

Essential

• Masters Degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Teaching experience at Higher Education institution
• Experience supporting the reviewing and updating teaching materials
• Clear communicator with good presentation skills explaining concepts well.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of contemporary practices across interior architecture and design
• Fluent (verbal and written) in English
• An ability to apply knowledge acquired from scholarship or professional practices into teaching materials and methods.
• Willingness and potential to develop independent /collaborative teaching

Desirable

• PhD
• Teaching qualification or in the process of obtaining one or be committed to achieving this within two years of appointment.
• Teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Experience of developing links with industry and delivering student competition projects
• Good understanding of industry needs and the skills required by graduates for employability.
• Evidence of IA&D practice
• Flexible in approach with very good communication digital literacy and report writing skills and be willing to adapt to the duties associated with the role.

About Heriot-Watt

With a history dating back to 1821 Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant leading-edge research and enterprise which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.

We are a vibrant forward-looking university well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our -Watt is also Scotlands international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30000 students in 143 countries worldwide have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the most significant international student cohort in Scotland.

At Heriot-Watt weve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers teachers staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.

We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our focus on careers delivers results and weve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.

In addition to the Edinburgh campus we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders Orkney Dubai and Malaysia. For all our campuses we aim to provide stimulating supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research where staff and students can excel. At Heriot-Watt we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities. Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to values are:

• Belong
• Collaborate
• Inspire
• Celebrate

At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.

Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.

Learn more about our benefits here:Our Dubai Campus - Heriot-Watt University ()

Heriot-Watt University Dubai is (Commission for Academic Accreditation) CAA Licensed; therefore successful candidates will need to either provide terminal degrees attested from a UAE institution accredited by the CAA or if the degree is not from a UAE Institution the candidate will need to have MoE (Ministry of Education) Equivalency. More info on attestation can be found here on the MoE website. The candidate is responsible for getting their degree attestations done and these should be completed within six months of joining.

The appointment is conditional upon successful completion of all Labour and Immigration formalities.

Required Experience:

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