Job Role The School has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Receptionist. The successful candidate will maintain an appropriate and welcoming ‘front of house’, dealing with initial enquiries, ensuring the appropriate information is always available and to provide basic administrative services for the Saturday Club. You should have experience of customer care, reception, front of house role, customer focused role, and cash handling with accuracy. You should also be PC literate preferably with knowledge of Microsoft Office or windows-based applications. What will you get if you join us? • Work for an institution that supports work-life balance, and cares for the wellbeing of staff; • Staff development opportunities; • Generous annual leave; • Free confidential counselling service and physiotherapy; • Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses for VDU use; • Free IT products including Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud; • Professional fees paid by the School; • Staff recognition awards • Free car parking and access to other staff benefits; and • Access to the Local Government/Teacher’s Pension scheme (with significant employer contributions).

Job Role We are currently looking for a Student Services Administration Assistant to provide a range of administrative support across the Student Advice and Wellbeing Team. The Team is based in a busy department dealing with all aspects of student support. The role is varied and will entail the need to be able to adapt to the changing needs and demands on department. We are looking for a flexible and experienced administrator to provide support across the team, ensuring records are kept up to date and accurate, answering basic queries from students and also getting involved in preparing for events such as open days, by developing leaflets and creating posters. The successful candidate will need to be a team player, able to work on their own initiative, and have strong organisational skills. Due to the nature of the work a good understanding of confidential record keeping is required. It is essential the successful candidate is computer literate, has good keyboard skills, knowledge/ability in MS office applications (Word, Excel, Publisher), use of databases, experience of customer care, cash handling and record keeping. What will you get if you join us? • The opportunity to work in an OFSTED Outstanding award-winning institution with creative people in a creative environment, where the exchange of ideas is integrated into the work ethic; • The knowledge that you have a positive impact on the development of students and the choices they make in life; • Support and guidance in making any difficult decisions to achieve the targets you have been set; • Work for an institution that supports work life balance, and cares for the wellbeing of staff; • Access to personal skills development to help you achieve your targets and your longer-term career goals • Access to the Teesside Pension Fund (with significant employer contributions); and • Free car parking and access to other staff benefits.

Job Role The Northern School of Art has a 150-year heritage delivering high quality education for the creative industries. The higher education campus, based in the vibrant North East, offers an authentic Art School community where students and students collaborate across disciplines. We are seeking a dynamic Lecturer (Creative Practitioner) to join our BA (Hons) Photography team. Through ongoing collaboration with industry partners and affiliation with the Association of Photographers (AOP), our programme covers everything from analogue darkroom practices to industry-standard digital studio workflows, post-production in the rapidly changing digital landscape. The person we appoint will work in the Visual Art faculty as a highly technical, studio focused academic specialist. Appropriate industry experience in photography will be required, which should include at least 5 years experience of studio practice and a thorough understanding of digital equipment and software, as well as darkroom and analogue processes. Essential to this role are excellent administrative, planning, and organisational skills, as you will take responsibility and lead in areas such as academic assessment, module development, student progress and attendance. You will collaborate with colleagues to ensure the development of the academic curriculum and currency of the programme, ensuring the programme is aligned to the forefront of the industry. We are looking for a professional with relevant industry experience, as well as knowledge of contextual research and the current professional practice within the global photography sector. Academic experience in a higher education setting in Photography would be desirable. What will you get if you join us? • Work for an institution that supports work-life balance, and cares for the wellbeing of staff; • Staff development opportunities; • Generous annual leave; • Free confidential counselling service and physiotherapy; • Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses for VDU use; • Free IT products including Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud; • Professional fees paid by the School; • Staff recognition awards • Free car parking and access to other staff benefits; and • Access to the Local Government Pension scheme (with significant employer contributions).