Teaching Associate Interior Architecture Design

Heriot-Watt University; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in Dubai is seeking a Teaching Associate in Interior Architecture and Design. The role focuses on developing teaching practices, maintaining high-quality standards, and enhancing links with Scottish campuses. Candidates should possess a Master’s degree in a relevant field and experience in teaching at higher education institutions. Proficient knowledge in digital technologies such as Revit and Blender is required. The position offers an engaging and collaborative academic environment.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Teaching experience at Higher Education institution.
• Experience supporting the reviewing and updating teaching materials.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality teaching pedagogies over time.
• Develop strong links with Scottish campuses to deliver high-quality learning.
• Lead course development to support industry-facing practices.

Skills

Fluent in English

Communication skills

Digital technologies expertise

Experience in teaching

Education

Masters Degree or equivalent

Tools

Revit

3DMax

Blender

Job description

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-Watt's 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.

The Role

The School 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 will possess 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 today's 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.

Requirements

The role will be based at the University's 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-Watt's 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 graduates. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland's international university, with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 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, we've 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 we've an excellent reputation for graduate employability.

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.