22 Oct
University of Auckland
Auckland
Company Description
Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Creative Arts and Industries is one of eight faculties at the University of Auckland bringing together the University’s Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning; Te Waka Tūhura Elam School of Fine Arts and Design; Te Whare o ngā Pūkōrero Pūoro School of Music; and Ngā Akoranga Kanikani Dance Studies Programme.
Elam School of Fine Arts has built its reputation as the highest ranked New Zealand university for its global reputation amongst employers in Art and Design, where many of the country’s best-known artists have begun their careers.
Elam's teaching staff are internationally successful artists and researchers who are committed to the development of New Zealand art.
Job Description
Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity
We are seeking expressions of interest for Professional Teaching Fellow opportunities within the Creative Arts and Industries (CAI) Faculty at the University of Auckland. These will be part-time, fixed term teaching positions on undergraduate courses in the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme.
We have a range of opportunities in Semester 1 (March-June) and Semester 2 (July-Oct) 2025 across our “Creative Technologies” and “Contemporary Practices” courses.
- Creative Technologies courses develop practical and critical capacities in a wide range of analogue and digital media including: nga toi taketake (Māori material practices), printed matter, time-based media, photography, painting, sculpture and performance art.
These courses are timetabled as one 3 hour class per week, typically in the mornings, 9-12noon.
- Contemporary Practices courses develop critical and practical capacities in a range of areas of thematic enquiry: indigeneity and culture; images, objects and materiality; embodiment, identity and agency; systems, ecologies and environments; and technology and material futures.
These courses are timetabled as two 3 hour classes per week, typically in the afternoons, 1-4pm.
These positions may be as course lead, or as a second staff member on a course.
All courses are taught on campus at the city campus.
For more detailed information, please refer to the Position Description.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
Expressions of interest should provide an indication of media areas and/or thematic enquiry areas applicants are interested in teaching or have experience teaching. Please also indicate semester availability (semester 1, semester 2 or both).
Please include your CV and a cover letter outlining your experience/interest in Fine Arts teaching. All expressions of interest must be submitted by 24th February 2025.
Please note this a call for ‘Expressions of Interest’ rather than a position application as such, so you will not hear back from us.
We refer to our EOI lists once we are in a position to staff individual courses, following student enrolment, and will make contact with individuals at that point as selected.
Please reach out to Tara Winters, via *********@auckland.ac.nz, for a confidential conversation.
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