Job Description
Grade UE06: £34,132 to £39,355 per annum pro rata
CAHSS / Edinburgh College of Art
Guaranteed Hours: 20 hours between August 2025 - August 2026
Open-ended (Permanent)
The Opportunity
We are recruiting a number of tutors to work across one or more of a range of courses within the Design and Digital Media master’s programme. The courses we require support for are Elements of Digital Design, Design for Interactive Media, Media and Culture, Fundamentals of User Experience Design, 3D Digital Design, Game Design Studio, Digital Playgrounds for the Online Public and Global Design Culture.
Assistance is needed in delivering tutorial activities, providing practical guidance and advice to students, and assessing student work. Applicants should have advanced knowledge of working practices in one or more of the following areas: graphic design, digital media for screen and print publishing, UX design, interaction design, UI design, 3D modelling, texturing, rendering and basic animation, game design. The applicants should also have an understanding of the intellectual and research context in which digital design takes place.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- Excellent level of digital design practices and skills.
- Highly effective teaching and general communication skills.
- Ability to work confidently and effectively with a diverse student cohort.
- Demonstrable critical, informed, and scholarly capacity to engage with a range of teaching media, including online learning and teaching.
- Ability to work within teams with a collegial attitude, respect and sensitivity toward students and other staff members.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is
29th July 2025.
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About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Edinburgh College of Art is a large and diverse school within the University of Edinburgh's College of Humanities and Social Science. It is comprised of the Schools of Art, Design, History of Art, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Reid School of Music.
Our mission is to promote world-leading critical enquiry across all these subject areas through scholarly research, teaching and creative practice.
Almost 3,000 students and 300 staff study and work at ECA and we enjoy strong relationships with museums, galleries, archives, practitioners and industry partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and internationally.
Edinburgh College of Art is committed to equal and fair treatment of all its employees and in recognition of the positive promotion of diversity and gender equality among staff and students, Athena SWAN granted the Edinburgh College of Art a Silver Award in 2023.
