Lecturer: Visual Communication / Graphic Design with Module Responsibility 35% – 45%

About the job

• Development and implementation of teaching formats to convey conceptual, technical, and methodological fundamentals of Visual Communication and Graphic Design (including co-teaching).
• Didactically sound support of individual work processes, from research through concept development to presentation.
• Support of students in developing a design position and language.
• Teaching design fundamentals in typography, colour, and layout.
• Teaching conceptual and technical skills for designing digital applications such as websites, animated graphics, and other time-based or interactive digital formats.
• Introduction to AI-supported design, visualisation, and image generation processes.

• Overall responsibility for the content, organisational, and personnel planning, implementation, and further development of the module according to specifications.
• Lateral leadership of lecturers and teaching staff involved in the module; in particular ensuring communication, promoting collaboration, and coordinating work assignments. Recruitment of teaching staff in consultation with the preparatory course management.
• Planning and allocation of resources and materials within the module.
• Ensuring the didactic quality and currency of the teaching.
• Quality assurance and qualitative further development of the module, including feedback to lecturers.
• Participation in the professional, organisational, and personnel development of the preparatory design course.
• Representation of the field of Visual Communication in the core team and within the Department of Design Film Art.
• Active participation in exchange, planning, evaluation, and development bodies and involvement in strategic issues.

• You have a completed university degree (Master’s or Diploma) in Visual Communication / Graphic Design.
• You have an independent design practice with several years of professional experience at the interface of concept, design, and technology.
• You have teaching experience at a university or a preparatory design course. A certificate in higher education didactics can be obtained as part of the employment.
• You have sound knowledge of typography, layout, and visual communication.
• You are experienced in the conception and design of digital applications such as websites, animations, and information design and work confidently with AI-supported tools (Midjourney, Weavy, etc.).
• You are proficient in handling relevant design and drafting software (Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects), have knowledge of UX/UI design, and experience with Figma.
• You know the Swiss design scene, are visible in it, and excellently networked.
• You are a communicative and reliable personality with pronounced cooperation and social skills.
• You think and work interdisciplinarily and enjoy team-oriented collaboration.
• You have organisational skills and experience in independently planning and implementing projects and teaching units.
• Very good German language skills, spoken and written.

• The opportunity to bring an independent practice into teaching and help shape the development of the preparatory design course.
• An open, experimental environment at an innovative university for design, film, and art.
• Modern and contemporary infrastructure with excellent analogue and digital workshops and spacious studios.
• Opportunities for professional and didactic development.
• The workplace is the Viscosistadt Campus, Lucerne-Emmenbrücke.

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