Are you looking for new challenge? Are you a creative practitioner or have experience working within a creative arts department? Would you like to join an ambitious creative team and help develop the next generation of creative industry professionals?

We are recruiting a Part-Time, Term Time (38 weeks per year) Technician - Art & Design for our Creative and Digital Art Department based at our Aylesbury Campus.

To act as a specialist Art Technician for the Creative and Digital Art's Department across all Art areas working as part of a technical team with our current technician within the creative team and elsewhere within the College as required for academic and commercial activities.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• To provide supervision of students in the subject areas required as appropriate, given the resources available and within the agreed and approved current timetable.
• To supervise all commercial activities within the designated area including weekend working as directed by Curriculum Manager
• To control stock and issue materials to students.
• To prepare resources, including art kits for students use in classrooms and vocational areas and equipment are maintained correctly and kept clean.
• To advise course tutors of the need of replacement stock and materials.
• To raise material/equipment requisitions, receive, check and store goods in accordance with College procedures.
• To provide specialist art & design knowledge and skills in one or more areas of Art & Design (eg Painting/Printmaking/Sculpture/3D/Time Based Media) in support of the delivery of specialist art & design pathways covered within the Creative & Digital arts department.
• To support the planning of external enrichment activities including the gathering of transportation quotes and managing the online store payments.

We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the college. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible. While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including:

• Pension scheme - LGPS (21% employer contribution)
• 30 days holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays & Additional annual leave purchase scheme
• A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development
• A bespoke package of intensive induction and probation support
• Flexible working policy and a commitment to employee wellbeing
• Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Hair & Beauty (HAB) Salon
• 24hrs/7days a week access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes

Buckinghamshire College Group is a Further Education college with three campuses located in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wycombe. We are proud to be a skills-based college supporting over 5000 learners each year to achieve their study and career goals and play a pivotal role in the Buckinghamshire community working with a wide range of employers for example, Pinewood Studios, NHS Trusts and Flannery Plant Hire to name but a few.

You will have an unwavering passion for learning and for supporting learners and staff to achieve more than they ever thought possible - we call this the Bucks College Factor!

If you have the Bucks College Factor, this sounds like a role for you and Buckinghamshire College Group sounds like a place you'd like to be part of, then we'd love to hear from you.

Commitment to Safeguarding

BCG is committed to equal opportunities for all, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and staff alike; all posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.

For more information on the role please CLICK HERE for the job description and CLICK HERE for Terms and conditions.

Only completed applications will be considered for this role.

For more information on the role please contact HR directly.

Closing date for applications is the 04/12/2024, with interviews taking place shortly after.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.