Full-Time Faculty Position in Graphic Design

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Full-Time Faculty Position in Graphic Design
Category:
Communication Design (105)
Department:
105 Communication Design Pathways
Locations:
New York, NY
Posted:
Nov 2, 2021
Closes:
Open Until Filled
Type:
Faculty Full Time
Position ID:
138867
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About **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.:
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. (FIT), an internationally renowned college of art and design, business and technology of the State University of New York, invites nominations and applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the Communication Design Pathways Department, School of Art and Design.
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***., a part of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for nearly 70 years. With a curriculum that provides a singular blend of hands-on, practical experience, classroom study, and a firm grounding in the liberal arts, FIT offers a wide range of outstanding programs that are relevant to today's rapidly changing industries. Internationally renowned, FIT draws on its New York City location to provide a vibrant, creative community in which to learn. The college offers more than 45 majors and grants AAS, BFA, BS, MA, MFA, and MPS degrees, preparing students for professional success and leadership in the global marketplace.
With close ties to industry, FIT draws faculty from the city's art, business, and design elite, and from the rich academic community of the region. The college continually seeks creative faculty members who are passionate about their field and demonstrate exceptional professional capability in the core competencies of instruction design, learning enrichment, globalism, and use of technology, as well as mastery of established and emerging industry practices.
The mission of FIT's School of Art and Design is to educate the next generation of creative, socially responsible and globally relevant professionals able to succeed in the broad spectrum of art and design fields. The school challenges students to create new and valuable ideas through innovation, collaboration and experimentation.
The mission of the Graphic Design program is to educate students for professional excellence in graphic design and to promote the advancement of graphic design as a proponent of positive social change. The program provides a premier educational experience that fosters creativity, professional knowledge, technical expertise, and a critical and global perspective. The curriculum encompasses both a broad-based education in the liberal arts and extensive studio practice. Graphic Design's mission reflects the institutional mission to develop student's aesthetic, intellectual, analytical and technological abilities through programs that integrate theory and practice, and expose students to their chosen professions through internships, guest lectures, industry-sponsored projects, and other opportunities for experiential learning.
Job Description:
We are seeking a professional with demonstrated versatility and experience in working across and actively engaged in creative disciplines inclusive of design-thinking knowledge and practice, emerging technologies, and innovative instructional methodologies.
The successful candidate will effectively communicate with and guide students to achieve their educational goals, providing them with knowledge of current practices aligned with traditional foundations and emerging technologies in the field. Teaching responsibilities will include undergraduate-level courses in the Graphic Design program in the Communication Design Pathways department.
The ideal candidate's areas of expertise will include, but are not limited to:
Graphic Design
Advanced Typography
Motion Graphics
Web Design and UX/UI
Design for Social Impact
Infographics and Data Visualization
Experiential Design
The successful candidate will possess effective written and verbal communication skills, foster collaboration, and pursue research interests.
We seek a faculty member who will serve in and contribute to the College, and beyond the classroom in curriculum development, committee service, and commitment to teaching excellence.
Requirements:
Specific Competencies
Successful candidates will excel in the following areas:
Globalism
Possess an ability to think globally and demonstrate an awareness of the impact of graphic design education, industry, and the profession.
Communicate and convey to students the ethical implications of design decisions affecting the global environment and people.
Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of graphic design in the context of broader social, cultural, economic, scientific, and technological forces.
Possess experience working with people from various cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and social groups that will support the education of a diverse student population.
Demonstrate appreciation for cultural diversity and a positive approach to cultural differences.
Engage in global cross-disciplinary discourse in the discipline of graphic design.
Instructional Design
Demonstrate ability to utilize technology and electronic information to deliver course materials to students.
Utilize instructional variety in order to accommodate students of different learning styles, abilities, demographics, or diversity.
Demonstrate ability to cultivate and foster critical thinking, problem-solving, information literacy, and creativity.
Demonstrate implementation of instructional methodologies and practical applications that enrich students' learning experience through innovative pedagogies, research, and/or creative scholarship.
Demonstrate execution of socially responsible and sustainable design projects that instruct and inspire a diverse student population.
Demonstrate experience in developing or teaching a curriculum that addresses diversity in design.
Learning Enrichment
Embrace the role of faculty as facilitators, mentors, and integrators of information and knowledge.
Possess a passion for learning with the ability to inspire interest, curiosity, and creativity in students.
Demonstrate responsiveness to industry changes and/or practices, including technology, and the ability to incorporate evolving changes in a progressive curriculum.
Professionalism
Demonstrate continued engagement in creative and/or scholarly work in the discipline of graphic design.
Understand established and emerging graphic design practices and convey their importance to students.
Demonstrate the ability to organize and lead initiatives for the department and the College.
Demonstrate professional projects that illustrate a varied and innovative design portfolio of evidence-based projects.
Demonstrate research ability, knowledge of, and engagement with industry competitions, exhibitions, publications, awards and/or other creative achievements.
Technology
Demonstrate technological skills relating to software and hardware widely used in the graphic design profession.
Demonstrate ability to communicate through technology and utilization of the college course management system and campus portal.
Demonstrate a commitment to maintain currency in technological skills and knowledge.
Minimum Qualifications:
BFA in a design program including graphic design, fine arts, industrial design, architecture or digital design with a minimum of seven (7) years of academic and/or professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
MFA or doctoral degree in graphic design or a closely related discipline with a minimum of ten (10) years professional and academic experience serving as a faculty member.
This position will be required to constantly read and comprehend, occasionally perform calculations, constantly verbally communicate, frequently analyze, and constantly write. The working conditions for this position will be any combination of the classroom, lab, and/or office space. Certain roles may be required to handle machinery and chemicals. The physical requirement for this position will require occasional sitting, constant standing, occasional bending, frequent walking, and occasionally lifting 10 lbs. or less.
Additional Information:
This faculty position will begin Fall 2022. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The salary and appointment rank will be based on education level and cumulative experience.
Link to FIT
Benefits for Full-Time Faculty
Salary Schedule (page 72)
Application Instructions:
Please note that a background check is required for appointment to this position.
For consideration, please provide:
Letter of interest indicating your qualifications for the position;
Professional Resume/Curriculum Vitae;
Maximum of a 5-page sample of personal, professional qualifying work;
A minimum of three professional references, including names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail contact information.
Additional application materials may be requested at a later date.
Please note that due to the volume of applications, we will not be able to contact each applicant individually. Additional information about the **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. can be found at: ****FIT is firmly committed to creating an environment that will attract and retain people of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. By providing a learning and working environment that encourages, utilizes, respects, and appreciates the full expression of every individual's ability, the FIT community fosters its mission and grows because of its rich, pluralistic experience. FIT is committed to prohibiting discrimination, whether based on race, national origin, gender, religion, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other criterion prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local laws. FIT is committed to providing equal opportunity in employment, including the opportunity for upward mobility for all qualified individuals.
The College reserves the right to select one or more candidates after having been duly reviewed and presented to the President in conformance with the provisions of Article 15 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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