Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Games Programming and Development at University for the Creative Arts

Are you passionate about Games Programming and Development?  Keen to deliver excellent teaching and take part in innovative research?  Excited about working closely with industry partners?  Come and join our brilliant team at UCA!

Following significant investment into the School of Games and Creative Technologies, we are seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Games Programming and Development to join our outstanding team of dynamic and innovative educators, practitioners and researchers.

We are seeking a candidate who will ideally have industry experience in Games and experience of working in higher education student facing delivery, including curriculum design aligned to contemporary practice.

As Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Games Programming and Development, you will have proven knowledge and experience of software for computer games development with a particular focus on Unreal (C++, Blueprints) and Unity (C#) games engines. Experience of 3D modelling and an understanding of contemporary game development pipeline workflows are desirable. You will take a leading role in delivering games programming to students, principally on the BSc Games Development degree and MA Games Engineering, but you may contribute to a variety of games courses. It is an opportunity to express your creativity, skill, enthusiasm for the subject, and experience to contribute to the delivery of the exciting games programmes at UCA.

You will have a good honours degree, ideally a postgraduate degree, great professional experience, and detailed knowledge of contemporary developments in the subject area and wider creative industries.

At UCA, creativity and innovation are at the heart of what we do. Our legacy of educating eager and passionate artists, makers and thinkers runs back almost 160 years, and today we’re helping shape a global future that supports and nourishes talent worldwide.

You must be able to demonstrate good team working abilities, as well as good organisational and communication skills. The teaching duties will include all related course administration and require the successful candidate to be pro-active in developing new learning and teaching methods. You will also be required to participate in marketing and student recruitment activities and to potentially engage in professional research in the subject area.

Are you ready to share your passion for creativity with the next generation of games developers?

If so, we want to hear from you.

You can find out more about Games studies at UCA via our Website, Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo and LinkedIn profiles.

For informal Conversation:

Contact Programme Director Rob Cenci, (e) rcenci@uca.ac.uk

We particularly welcome applications from female and black and ethnic minority candidates as they are under-represented in this area.