Technical Instructor (Photography) (30 Hours per week) - Internal Only

Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Brighton invites applications for a Technical Instructor (Photography) to support both undergraduate and postgraduate students across analogue and digital practices. Based in the College of Creativity, Technology and Society, you will deliver specialist technical support in studios, darkrooms, and exhibition spaces, helping learners develop their creative projects.

You will run demonstrations and workshops, maintain equipment, manage workflows, ensure safety, and assist with

Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of traditional and digital photography.
• Experience with analogue photography and darkroom techniques.
• Experience with digital imaging workflows and post-production.
• Proficiency with Lightroom, Photoshop and InDesign.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical demonstrations, inductions and workshops.
• Provide day-to-day support to students and staff in photographic facilities.
• Maintain analogue and digital photography equipment and specialist facilities.
• Support film processing, darkroom operations and photographic printing.
• Manage digital imaging workflows, colour management and scanning processes.
• Assist with the installation and presentation of exhibitions and student showcases.
• Promote and maintain high standards of health and safety.

Skills

Digital photography

Film processing

Darkroom techniques

Post-production workflows

Adobe Creative Cloud

Lightroom

Photoshop

InDesign

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Lightroom

Photoshop

InDesign

Job description

Technical Instructor (Photography) (30 Hours per week) - Internal Only

College Office - Creativity, Technology and Society

Location: Brighton - City Campus

FixedTermEndDate: 28/07/2028

ClosingDate: Tuesday 03 November 2026

Reference: CT6068-26-232

Bring your expertise in photography to support the next generation of creative practitioners.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the University of Brighton's photography technical team, supporting students and staff across a wide range of analogue and digital photographic practices. Based within the College of Creativity, Technology and Society, you will play a key role in delivering an outstanding technical learning environment for our undergraduate and postgraduate students. This role is available on a fixed term basis until 28/07/2028 on a part time contract (30 hours per week). This is available on a job share basis.

About the role

As a Technical Instructor, you will provide specialist technical support across photography studios, darkrooms, digital imaging facilities and exhibition spaces. You will work closely with academic colleagues and students to support teaching, learning and creative project development.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering technical demonstrations, inductions and workshops
• Providing day-to-day support to students and staff in photographic facilities
• Maintaining analogue and digital photography equipment and specialist facilities
• Supporting film processing, darkroom operations and photographic printing
• Managing digital imaging workflows, colour management and scanning processes
• Assisting with the installation and presentation of exhibitions and student showcases
• Promoting and maintaining high standards of health and safety

About you

The successful candidate will have:

• Substantial technical knowledge of both traditional and contemporary photographic practice, together with a commitment to supporting student learning and creative exploration.
• Experience of Analogue photography, film processing and darkroom techniques, Digital photography and post-production workflows, Digital printing and Adobe Creative Cloud applications, particularly Lightroom, Photoshop and InDesign
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to explain technical processes clearly, deliver engaging workshops and work collaboratively with staff and students.

The University of Brighton is a creative, inclusive and ambitious institution with a strong reputation for practice-based learning and industry engagement. We offer a supportive working environment, opportunities for professional development and access to a vibrant creative community.

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.