JCA | London Fashion Academy is a new and highly prestigious higher education provider led by the world renowned designer, Prof. Jimmy Choo OBE.
Overview and Objectives of the Position:
JCA | London Fashion Academy is seeking is seeking inspirational and highly experienced academics and practitioners to teach on and across our programmes, providing breadth and depth to our subject offer, and extending strength to the academic team.
You will provide up-to-date knowledge, expertise and experience of professional practice and have in depth knowledge and understanding of critical, practical and theoretical issues relevant to at least one specialist subject area that contributes to the programmes that we have on portfolio.
In the role you will deliver high quality learning opportunities and mentorship to students within a teaching and learning framework which takes into account formal and informal development structures.
Critical to this approach, you will provide mentorship to students who align with your practice and give guidance to students with their educational and professional development.
You may be asked to lead on specific modules and / or themes and contribute to a growing research culture within the subject.
You will naturally bring with you, professional relationships and industry contacts that will enable students in their study and that will help define and develop their future entrepreneurship.
Background:
Founded by Prof. Jimmy Choo and Stephen Smith, JCA has quickly become one of the most well regarded and sought after fashion schools in the UK. Frequently covered, globally, in premium titles such as WWD, Business of Fashion, Financial Times, Wall St Journal, Jing Daily and Vogue, the institution unashamedly seeks to find, nurture and launch new designers through its innovative approach to education and incubation.
The list of achievements within the 18 months of opening its inaugural Mayfair campus are impressive and undoubtedly hard to follow, with Faculty that include international royalty to acclaimed designers who balance academic careers alongside their professional practice. Indeed, it was out of great interest and curiosity that Queen Camilla chose to visit the Academy in 2023 and to find out more.
With its flagship campus based in the heart of London’s prestigious Mayfair, the Academy seeks to find, support and launch entrepreneurial fashion designers through an intimate, learner-centred approach that is focused on professional practice delivered within a specialist incubation environment.
The Academy offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in a range of practice-based fashion design and entrepreneurship programmes that allow learners to pursue a very high degree of specialism.
There are two routes available to prospective students: 1) an immersive, professional practice experience with incubation in Mayfair, and 2) a timetabled professional experience within an artisan Maker Space in West London.
Inclusive in its approach, in terms of reach and scholarships given, the Academy seeks to support the best and most gifted designers to fulfil their ambitions and transition from higher education into entrepreneurship and/or employment.
As a selective institution, recruitment is based on academic and creative potential expressed through prior qualifications and portfolio and behaviours and attitudes through academic interview and engagement.
JCA Culture:
Our academic staff are the best in their field, professionally within fashion, and pedagogically within education. They are also friendly and approachable people. People who want to work with other, similar minded, people – and together, to create a professionally focused learning community.
Lecturers are employed as ‘Mentors’ and deliver more than taught sessions; they interact, engage, and participate with learners and guide the learning journey. They excite, provocate and disrupt ways of thinking. They support, protect and inculcate excellence. However, most of all, they motivate, encourage and inspire.
Being an aspiring Designer at the Academy is much more than being a student it is about setting a direction and being mentored on that journey – from campus to beyond.
How to Apply:
If you feel you have the skills and experience to excel in this position, please click the apply button now and review the full details for the role.
Informal enquiries can be made direct on 07935 754250 and applications will be reviewed as they are received and as such you are encouraged to apply soon.
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