Lecturer: Moving Image with Module Responsibility 35% – 45%

About the job

• Development and implementation of teaching formats to convey methodological and technical basics of time-based media, especially narrative and visual skills (including co-teaching).
• Conveying a reflective understanding of narrative, design, and dramaturgical strategies at the interface of film, animation, and hybrid audiovisual formats.
• Didactically sound support of individual work processes, from research to presentation.
• Supporting students in developing an artistic-filmic position and visual language.
• Promoting a technically sound and critically reflective approach to both traditional and contemporary technologies and moving image media – from analogue film through stop-motion to AI/CGI.
• Encouraging an experimental, interdisciplinary working method.
• Supervision and mentoring of students in the portfolio process.

• 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 working 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 topicality 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 Design Preparatory Course.
• Representation of the moving image subject area in the core team and within the Department of Design Film Art.
• Active participation in exchange, planning, evaluation, and development bodies as well as involvement in strategic issues.

• You have a completed university degree (Master or Diploma) in film, animation, or a related discipline.
• You have a current and independent artistic-filmic practice.
• You have teaching experience at a university or a design preparatory course. A certificate in higher education didactics can be obtained during employment.
• You are familiar with current methods, technologies, and discourses in the field of moving image and integrate these into your teaching. Your teaching is project- and process-oriented.
• You know the Swiss film and/or animation 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.
• You have very good German language skills.

• The opportunity to bring an independent practice into teaching and help shape the development of the Design Preparatory 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 Campus Viscosistadt, Lucerne-Emmenbrücke.

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