Victoria College of Arts and Design
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Pattern Cutting)
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Job Title: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Pattern Cutting)
Reports to: BA Fashion Design Programme Leader
Location: London
Salary Range: £40,000–£55,000 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: Wednesday, 9am–5pm
Overview
As a Pattern Cutting Lecturer at the Victoria College of Arts & Design, you are expected to play a key role in delivering high-quality, technical and practice-based material while maintaining and continuously enhancing the high standards of teaching, mentoring, and academic support that we aim to provide for our students. You will play a key role in designing, delivering, and assessing undergraduate and / or postgraduate modules and programmes. This position is ideal for someone with strong creative and technical expertise in the fundamentals of pattern cutting and garment construction, and the ability to support experimental silhouette exploration grounded in detail and high-level finishing. The lecturer will help students translate research, concept development and design ideas into technically resolved patterns, toiles, samples and garment outcomes. The lecturer will support students in developing a technical and creative toolkit that underpins their design identity and professional readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Teaching and Module Delivery:
- Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality, student-centred lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops for assigned modules alongside the allocated design tutor.
- Use a range of inclusive, student-centred teaching methods to support engagement, accessibility and different levels of student experience.
- 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 through appropriate written, verbal and/or recorded formats, 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.
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Curriculum and Module 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.
- Integrate practice-based learning and develop an ongoing visiting lecturer programme.
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 high-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, module 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.
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Staff Management Responsibilities
Holders of any Lecturer post will have line management responsibilities as per their various and occasional non-substantive role, such as module 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
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Experience of teaching.
- Confidence and ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively to a class of students.
- Strong creative pattern cutting skills, with the ability to translate research, concept development, and design ideas into technically resolved patterns, toiles, samples, and garment outcomes.
- Ability to utilise a range of digital platforms, particularly Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365.
- Enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience within your specialist area.
Desirable
- Master’s degree.
- Relevant professional experience in an associated or appropriate area of practice.
- Knowledge of the Higher Education sector in England.
- Experience with digital pattern cutting, CAD pattern systems, CLO 3D, and/or other relevant industry-led digital garment technologies.
Benefits
- Annual leave (7.2 weeks)
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Company Sick Pay.
- Statutory maternity and paternity pay.
- Employee Assistance Programme (HA Wisdom Wellbeing)
- Virtual GP access (Livi)
- 'Speak Up Service' - confidential support service to report any workplace concerns
- Specialist physical and mental wellbeing support services with 24/7 confidential counselling support (Wisdom)
- Specialist menopause support, including online CBT (Wisdom)
- Financial, legal and medical advice services provided (Wisdom)
- Life & Leadership coaching (Wisdom)
- Financial coaching (MUNNY)
- Discounts and perks, offering savings on shopping, activities and more (Bright Exchange)
- Career development and training opportunities.
- Training and self-development opportunities.
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