Animation Tutor

These are exciting times for the Games Design department at BCT. Last September we launched a new world class Digital Future Campus including industry standard training rooms, equipment, VFX studios, e-sports arena and editing suites. To this effect, we are looking for an outstanding Animation tutor to join at the new site based in Walthamstow, East London. We require a tutor with experience in 2D and 3D game production pipelines, understanding of underlying game design principles and a wider knowledge of the creative media production industries

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a successful and growing department, within a supportive framework. Candidates will have maths and English at GCSE grade C / 4 or above and will be educated to degree level with evidence of outstanding practice working in a similar environment.

Key tasks and qualities

- The ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of young people

- Plan and deliver exciting lessons that supports learner progression

- Ensure learners are retained, achieve their qualifications and progress

- Ensure the course has a wide range of enrichment including guest speakers and trips

- Complete learner one to one tutorials and individual learning plans

- Use a range of assessment methods ensuring the learners are inspired to progress by outstanding and prompt feedback

- Ability to empathise with and understand the many challenges faced by young adults in a demographic with high free school meals rate and poverty levels

- Ability to inspire these learners by developing lessons that can relate to and build on their needs and interests

- Experience of working in the creative industries using an entrepreneurial approach

- Develop innovative ways of collaborating on projects both within the department and with other courses in the college

- Experience of working professionally in a relevant industry

- Extremely organised and able to manage your own workload effectively and flexibly

- Highly motivated and driven to succeed in a competitive and rewarding environment

- Outstanding teaching and communication skills and experience of good / outstanding Ofsted

- Positive, solution focused and proactive in managing and responding to data

- Assertive and self-confident in management of the learning environment

- Committed and willing to “go the extra mile” to meet targets

- Ambitious – will not settle for less than outstanding standards of work and behaviour

Technical skills – we’d be interested in hearing from applicants with combinations of the following skills:

- Animating, skinning and rigging in Maya, or Blender

- Animation-to-engine pipelines, ideally Unity/Unreal Engine

- Familiarity with modelling, Photoshop

- ExcelUnity for 3D game production

- 3D Modelling and texturing – Blender

- Drawing and 2D Art skills

- Experience with Photoshop - concept art/textures for games

- Excellent communication skills in English

- Blender or Autodesk Maya for 3D modeling and animation

- Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop

- Unity for 3D game production- Visual scripting/basic programming skills

- Drawing and 2D Art skills

- Game design industry planning and research skills

Benefits of working for BCT

- Supportive, developmental environment with a creative and innovative approach to education

- Be part of a successful and expanding organisation with a pension and healthcare cash plan

- Supported internal and external CPD opportunities tailored to progression aims

- Company pension scheme and healthcare cashback scheme

- Free on-site lunches during term-time

Salary and days of work

- Animation Tutor required (full-time and part-time roles available)

- 35 hours per week, 9.00 – 5.00 for full-time

- Hours to be discussed for part-time

- Qualified Teacher full time equivalent £33,000 – (PGCE level or equivalent) (pro-rata for part-time roles)

- Unqualified Teacher full time equivalent £27,810 (pro-rata for part-time roles)

- We offer 32 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (40 in total) (pro-rata for part-time roles)

- To start in August 2023

How to apply

You must be eligible to work in the UK and possess a UK work permit if you need one. Please note this job is based in London and cannot be done remotely.

For an Informal Discussion, please contact call Darren Peers on 07931 444339. If you wish to apply you must complete the application form found at www.bigcreative.education/bct-staff-application-form by 9am on 14th July 2023.

BCT is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding all learners enrolled on our programmes and appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory references being obtained, and an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

For teaching positions only

We welcome applications from industry professionals who wish enter teaching via the full teaching qualification via the Taking Teaching Further scheme. This allows 6 months of reduced timetable for training and support whilst receiving full pay and covering all qualification costs.