Post Title & Subject Area: Assistant Lecturer – specialising in Print (FTE 0.8)
Grade: Assistant Lecturer
Post Duration: Specified purpose contract backfilling a staff member acting up from 8th September 2025 - 30th June 2026
Reports to: Head of Department of Print
Salary: Assistant Lecturer New Entrant Salary Scale €47,957 - €65,246 per annum pro-rata, i.e. €38,365 - €52,196* per annum
- Candidates should note that as per Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform guidelines, entry will be at the minimum point of the scale and the rate of remuneration will not be subject to negotiation and may be adjusted from time to time in line with Government pay policy. Different terms and conditions may apply if you are a currently serving civil or public servant.
Location: This position is based at NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8
*Interviews will be held on Monday 25th August 2025*
NCAD drives radical and creative innovation through excellence in research-led art and design education. It empowers its students to shape the contemporary world through critical practice, studio-based learning, research and engagement
The School of Fine Art within the College comprises of 5 departments:
- Department of Painting
- Department of Print
- Department of Media
- Department of Applied Materials
- Department of Sculpture and Expanded Practices
The School of Fine Art supports students to develop highly individual and collaborative ways of seeing, interpreting, and acting visually in the world. Emphasis is placed on visual awareness and artistic analysis, and on acquiring and deploying appropriate skills across a spectrum of fundamental and new materials and media.
Academic staff actively contribute to the teaching and learning, research and commercialisation/knowledge transfer and internationalisation agendas of the College
The NCAD Strategy is a key component of institutional alignment
The NCAD Strategy:
To Embed Bold and Curious Learning at our Core
To Connect and be Connected
To be an Effective Organisation
Vision - Changing the world through bold and curious learning, thinking and doing
Values - Bold and Curious Thinking - Distinction - Diversity - Respect - Relevance
https://www.ncad.ie/about/strategic-plan/
Research is an important dimension of NCAD staff engagement and knowledge
https://www.ncad.ie/research-and-innovation/research-directions-1/
These posts will be an integral part of the academic management/leadership within the discipline, Department, School and College.
School of Fine Art – Department of Print
The Print Department offers both studio space and significant workshop capacity that supports an expanding range of approaches and outputs. The Department is a popular undergraduate choice for undergraduate study,
Spanning autographic arts, mechanical reproduction and digital media, print actively interlocks with a broad range of disciplines whilst evolving distinctive approaches to art making . Teaching embraces fundamental and contemporary approaches to image making and reproduction, whilst expanding further frameworks and sites for making and dissemination. Teaching supports the wider remit of art practice of embracing both open ended and dynamic exploration in relation to teacher generated projects and learner generated briefs, with an awareness of contemporary forces and themes that are manifest and evolving. This may embrace known and alternative means including still and moving image, performance, digitally commanded manifestations, public sites, collaborative and co- produced components for example. The re-animation of Postgraduate Study related to the area is a live matter.
Assistant Lecturers will be expected to enable a range of learning approaches embracing blended teaching and learning, through workshops, crits, seminars, and tutorials.
Assistant Lecturers will be expected to support teaching at different levels of the BA and Postgraduate Programmes that may include Year 1 and MFA study as required
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Actively contribute to the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the School of Fine Art, and in the Print Department including module or programme design and delivery, examination and assessment, quality assurance and enhancement and associated administration.
- Develop and implement new course curriculum within the Print Department, including the co-ordination of course content, delivery and assessment.
- Enhance and promote the reputation of our academic provision by liaising and co-operating with other national and international institutions.
- Ensure the curriculum content of our programmes reflect and meet with the requirements of a variety of models of Fine Art fields of practice and momentum, including regularly reviewing and adapting course content and structure.
- Engage in the student recruitment process including interviews, selection, assessments and examination procedures as required to ensure appropriate number and level of student cohort.
- Undertake high quality research and scholarship in your field of expertise/specialist interest.
- Engage with industry and research partners, leading projects and knowledge exchange activities.
- Participate in Department/School/College committees and boards.
- Undertake such other duties as may be assigned by the Appropriate Officer from time to time.
Selection Criteria
Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post. Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.
Mandatory:
- A significant track record in Fine Art facing contemporary and traditional print practices and Higher Education teaching.
- Post-graduate degree in Fine Art or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- A minimum of 3 years industry and/or teaching experience.
- Strong, demonstrable commitment to research and international scholarship/professional practice.
- Experience of delivering high quality teaching within a higher education environment.
- Capacity and enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary context within the Department, School and College.
- Ability to design, deliver and assess a range of modules in and related to specialist areas of research/professional interest.
- Proficiency in digital software.
- Experience in working with digital and analogue print workshop outputs that include both traditional and new print technologies, and in maintaining an active interest in their related developments within the sector.
- Commitment to CPD and interest in emerging research, technology and techniques
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
Desirable:
- Demonstrable record of developing and maintain intercollegiate links.
- Demonstrable record of developing successful research funding applications and/or industry partnerships.