Full-Time Faculty Position Fashion Design

The ideal candidate will be an established fashion designer with significant design leadership and experience, primarily in the segments of the industry that are using 3D software technology and/or emerging and developing technologies. This includes 3D virtual fashion design software, digital textile development and presentation solutions, body scanning and avatar creation, no sew construction technology, 3D printing, and other similar and evolving creative design applications. The candidate will be able to readily combine professionally experienced, hands-on traditional and conceptual design approaches to initiate, develop and teach innovative core AAS and BFA courses, particularly in these areas.

The candidate will be well-suited in the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that typifies the diversity of the department, School, and College. The candidate will have six years of industry experience as a senior fashion designer with proficiency in 3D technology and/or emerging and developing technologies.

The candidate will be knowledgeable about successful fashion practices across several current and developing methodologies, understand market trends and fluency in emerging technology. The successful candidate will have foundational knowledge of garment construction and facilitate students to build and produce collections. The candidate will develop and implement new curriculum in collaboration with the department, in specific courses of emerging topics.

It is expected that the selected candidate will establish and/or build upon a personal area of strength at the time of attaining tenure, which includes relevant research; expertise in fashion technologies and/or innovation; fashion show presentations or exhibitions; development of curriculum, grants, proposals; cultivation of industry support; and/or in another area of scholarly/creative work.

The successful candidate will contribute to the department, School, College, beyond the classroom in curriculum development and with committee service.

Successful candidates will excel in the following areas:

Globalism

• Possess an ability to think globally and demonstrate an awareness of the impact of 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 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 fashion 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 methodolgoies 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 a continued engagement in creative and/or scholarly work in the discipline of fashion design.
• Understand established and emerging fashion design practices and convey their importance to students.
• Possess 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 and/or awards.

Technology

• Demonstrate technological skills relating to 3D software and emerging technologies specifically used in the fashion design profession.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate through technology and utilization of the College course management system and campus portal.
• Demonstrate a commitment to maintaining currency in technological skills and knowledge

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree required with six (6) years of professional experience as a senior fashion or 3D clothing designer. Candidates must present a strong fashion portfolio showcasing professional work inclusive of relevant press and/or industry recognition. Digital skills, 3D and specific related apparel software skills utilized by fashion design professionals required.

Preferred Qualifications: 

Master's degree preferred.

Three (3) years or more of teaching experience in higher education preferred.