Hi Folks,
If you are interested in taking a break from production and looking to move into higher education, some interesting opportunities are coming up in Ireland. We are looking for someone with industry experience in the area of animation and/or games to come and work with us on both our Animation and Games degree programmes here in the Limerick Institute of Technology.
Education offers a challenging and stimulating working environment with opportunities to develop personal and professional areas of interest. The courses are very new and the positions would give the successful candidate an opportunity to help develop and drive these programmes. The college itself is situated in the south of Ireland on a small and friendly campus with a focused team of lecturers. The staff are a good blend of experienced academics and industry professionals with high end production experience at studios such as Brown Bag Films and Double Negative.
The roles would suit someone who has had a number of years production experience and is looking for a change of life style. If this is something that might interest you, we have two posts that we are looking to fill.
The first position is an animation assistant lecturer role which will focus on teaching in the areas of animation and games. As mentioned above, this post would give the successful candidate an opportunity to help develop current and future courses and help craft the direction of a suite of exciting programmes delivered on campus. Industry experience in the areas of animation and asset development for animation and/or games would be preferred, an interest in technical art and tool development would be beneficial.
The second position is a visual communications assistant lecturer role which will focus on visual development in the areas of animation and games. Again, this post would give the successful applicant the opportunity to develop the direction and content of the visual development aspects of the programmes and help evolve and focus this area of study towards the disciplines of film, animation and games. Industry experience in the areas of art direction, concept design and visual development would be preferred. Experience in general game/animation asset creation would be beneficial.
Application Form(s) which should be completed and returned not later than 12 noon on Friday, 22nd May, 2015 may be obtained from the website: www.lit.ie/vacancies
If you think these are of interest and would like clarification on any points before applying, please do not hesitate to contact us at –
Richard Gavin – VFX Specialist and Assistant lecturer
[email protected]
John Hannafin - Digital Animation Production - Course Co-ordinator
[email protected]
Andrew Crotty – Game Art and Design - Course Co-ordinator
[email protected]
We will more than happy to answer any questions.
Below are full descriptions for both roles -
AL – Animation (fixed term)
We are seeking to recruit a person(s) who will contribute to the teaching responsibility in the area of Animation and/or Game Art and will contribute to the continued development of the courses. The person(s) appointed would be expected to teach across the year level range as well as taking shared responsibility under the direction of the Head of Department for development and administration of the subject generally. To this end the successful applicant should have proven professional practice and have experience in the teaching of Animation and /or Game Art.
We are looking to recruit a person with the following skill sets;
• Strong proven background in Animation for TV, Feature Film or Games, combined with excellent drawing skills
• Strong experience in animation technology, in particular animation and design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Autodesk Maya etc.
• Experience with speciality animation, games and compositing software including Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Toon Boom Harmony, Unity, Houdini and/or Nuke would be beneficial but not essential
• A broad understanding and knowledge of the area of Animation from basic principles through to performance based character animation
• Experience in both traditional and contemporary 2D and 3D digital animation processes with an emphasis on areas such as character design, layout drawing, illustration, background art, storyboarding and animatic, character animation, 3D Animation etc.
• Ability to communicate own skills and experience to students, to analyse work and give comprehensive and constructive feedback.
• Industry experience in the area of Animation and/or Games
AL – Visual Communications (fixed term)
We are seeking to recruit a person(s) who will contribute to the teaching responsibility of visual communications with in the Animation and Game design fields and will contribute to the development of these courses. The person(s) appointed would be expected to teach across the year level range as well as taking shared responsibility under the direction of the Head of Department for development and administration of the subjects generally. To this end the successful applicant should have proven professional practice and have experience in the teaching of visual communications.
We are looking to recruit a person with the following skill sets;
• Strong proven background in the area of Visual Communications with the necessary academic knowledge, technical skills and professional experience to lecture and develop relevant programmes of study in the areas of Animation and/or Games
• Strong experience and ability to deliver in the specific areas of Visual Communications including Graphic Design and Typography; Lens Based Media; Information design, interactive design and user interface design; Storyboarding and animation techniques etc.
• Strong experience in design technology, in particular animation and design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Flash, etc.
• A broad understanding and knowledge of the area of Lens Based Media and Photography
• Ability to communicate own skills and experience to students, to analyse work and give comprehensive and constructive feedback.
• Industry experience in the area of Visual Communications and Lens Based Media
Application Form(s) which should be completed and returned not later than 12 noon on Friday, 22nd May, 2015 may be obtained from the website: www.lit.ie/vacancies
The Human Resources Office,
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Moylish Park,
Limerick
Telephone: 353-62-293281
Fax: 353-62-293300
Email: [email protected]