The job descriptions for two vacancies within my department at the Royal College of Art are finally up. If you’re interested, or know anyone else that would be, please take a look at the current vacancies page.
Head of Department, Interaction Design
Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art has a leading reputation for advanced and innovative practice, teaching and research. It is interdisciplinary, with staff and students from a wide range of backgrounds in art and design as well as human sciences and engineering. It has a research group with a wide range of institutional and industrial research partners and affiliates. In parallel with its research activity, the department runs a two-year multi-disciplinary Masters course in interaction design with thirty students, the graduates of which are much in demand.
As the Head of Department you will be responsible for academic policy and direction, staff management, teaching, learning and research standards. You will have an established reputation in the discipline of interaction design and the ability to provide energetic leadership and professional vision in a demanding academic environment. You will also have a combination of skills and experience acquired in both academic and professional contexts which provide the competence to fulfil the managerial, teaching and research aspects of the role.
Part-time Assistant Network Manager, Interaction Design
Interaction Design has a well-resourced studio with a network of 40 Macintosh and PC computers and associated peripherals and video equipment. Each student and staff member has their own computer and in addition there are shared machines for specific applications such as video grabbing and scanning.
This post is for two days a week.
The Part-time Assistant Network Manager will assist the Network Manager in providing the overall technical infrastructure to support the research and teaching of the department. The post has a particular focus in supporting the online presence of the department’s researchers and students.
February 18th, 2005 at 9:35 am
I know its a case of time and resources, but ID at RCA really could do with sorting out a proper website, instead of the one page it has now.
Ivrea, obviously being a whole institution, has a huge site.
ITP in New York has a site
http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/flash/Home
UCLA has a nice one
http://dma.ucla.edu/
It would be nice to see an RCA site with student profiles / projects that are easily accesible / lists of events etc.
Sorry, has no relevance to your job posting :)
February 18th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
i think it has every relevance to the job posting, hopefully one of the first priorities of the new head will be to work on how the course is seen by the rest of the world. the website would be a good place to start.
February 19th, 2005 at 2:07 pm
good point.
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