Lecturer in Fashion Media and Marketing

Company: Victoria College of Arts and Design

Job Title: Lecturer - Fashion Media and Marketing

Reports to: Programme Leader

Location: ON-SITE, Manchester, UK

Salary Range: £45,000 per annum

Employment Type: Full Time

Work Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, 9am to 5pm

Overview

As a Lecturer at the Victoria College of Arts & Design, you will play a key role in delivering, maintaining, and continuously enhancing the high standards of teaching, mentoring, and academic support that we aim to provide for our students. This is an opportunity to work with a creative and dynamic team, contributing to the development and shaping of our creative programmes to inspire the next generation of fashion creatives.

The role also involves contributing to Fashion Media and Marketing provision, supporting students in developing skills across branding, visual storytelling, content creation, and strategic communication. You will guide learners in understanding how fashion operates within cultural, digital, and commercial contexts, encouraging critical thinking around audience engagement, trend analysis, and ethical practice, while helping students translate creative concepts into effective media and marketing outputs aligned with contemporary industry expectations.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about teaching and mentoring, and who is also dedicated to delivering student success across our range of creative programmes.

Key Responsibilities

Teaching and Unit Delivery:

• Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality, student-centred lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops for assigned units.
• Utilise a range of best-practice teaching methods to support various learning styles, fostering engagement and inclusivity.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of subject areas, ensuring course content is relevant, current, and aligned with contemporary industry practice and research insight.

Assessment and Feedback:

• Design, manage and assess formative and summative coursework assignments, ensuring flexibility, fairness, transparency, and relevance.
• Provide succinct, constructive, coherent and timely feedback to students, using written, recorded or written media, designed to aid students in their academic reflection, progress and development of core skills.
• Ensure that grading and feedback is in line with best practice and standards across the English Higher Education sector.

Student Support and Guidance:

• Act as an academic advisor and mentor to students, providing guidance on academic matters and supporting their professional aspirations.
• Organise and participate in student engagement activities and additional, non-curricular, learning and academic integrity support sessions.
• Address individual student needs, such as reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities, and refer to appropriate support services as necessary.

Curriculum and Unit Development:

• Work collaboratively with faculty, management, students and external stakeholders to develop, modify and enhance curricula so that it always reflects contemporary industry and academic trends.
• As appropriate, devise, design, manage and deliver the continuous improvement of teaching resources, such as updating reading lists, case studies, practical equipment, practical exercises, and online learning content.
• Participate, as appropriate and when requested, in all Academic Development Committees including curriculum review committees, considering such things as the development of new and revised programmes.

Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement:

• Adhere to all VCAD and Partner institution policies, procedures, and quality assurance standards.
• Engage in peer review processes to improve and share good practices across teaching methods.
• Participate in teaching observation and evaluation processes to ensure good quality support, development and enhancement of teaching practice across faculty.

Professional Development:

• Participate in professional development activities, keeping abreast of innovations and developments within the field of higher education teaching and learning and regulatory requirements.

Administrative and Departmental Responsibilities:

• Undertake, as required, administrative duties related to teaching, timetable management, unit coordination, course management, marking, grading and other associated administrative tasks concerned with the efficient running of the Board, as well as any other appropriate duties reasonably requested by your line manager, including attendance and participation in departmental meetings.
• Actively contribute to departmental goals and participate in activities such as open days, student recruitment, induction events, knowledge transfer and other outreach work.
• Support VCAD initiatives, such as diversity and inclusion efforts, digital learning, and community collaboration.

Staff Management Responsibilities

• Holders of any Lecturer post will have line management responsibilities as per their various and occasional non-substantive role, such as unit or programme leader. These roles will be recognised through such procedures as remission of teaching hours or honorarium payments and will be reasonably negotiated with the Academic Dean and VCAD Director and in keeping with established VCAD policy.

Qualifications & Experience: Essential (E) Desirable (D)

• A Bachelor’s Degree (E)
• Confidence and Ability to communicate complex information to a class of students (E)
• Ability to utilise a range of digital platforms, in particular Microsoft Office / 365 (E)
• Enthusiasm, knowledge and experience of your specialist area (E)
• Ability to use Adobe Creative Suite software – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere Pro (D)
• A working knowledge of the photography studio (D)
• Relevant professional experience in an associated or appropriate area of practice (D)
• Experience of Teaching (D)
• Knowledge of the Higher Education sector in England (D)
• A Master’s Degree (D)

Benefits

• Annual leave (7.2 weeks)
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Company Sick Policy.
• Statutory maternity/paternity pays.
• Career development opportunities
• Training and self-development opportunities.
• Gym membership discounts
• Retail discount schemes
• Cinema discounts
• Grocery discounts
• Cycle to work
• Investing and savings opportunities
• Financial wellbeing – personal debt advise.
• Financial wellbeing education
• My Mind Pal (mental fitness)