School of Fine & Performing Arts
Location: Lincoln
Salary: From £34,304 pro rata
Please note, this post is part time and permanent at 0.5 FTE.
Closing Date: Wednesday 24 November 2021
Interview Date: Friday 17 December 2021
Reference: MHT097A

Now is a truly exciting time to join our dynamic and forward-looking institution; we represent a new breed of university, a fast-growing, gold-rated university where staff and students work collaboratively and create world-changing knowledge and research. We offer our staff simply a life changing opportunity. The School of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Dance to teach across both the BA (Hons) Dance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre programmes.

As a new member of staff at the University of Lincoln the successful candidate will be situated within the School of Fine & Performing Arts, part of the College of Arts. The School currently offers Undergraduate programmes in Dance, Drama & Theatre, Fine Art, Music, and Technical Theatre & Stage Management, alongside a suite of M-level programmes and MPhil/PhD opportunities. The School of Fine & Performing Arts resources include the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, which includes rehearsal studios and a 444-seat public theatre venue. The School has a growing reputation of international dimensions and a rich legacy of developing small-scale theatre and performance groups who tour their work to regional venues, community clients, and national festivals.

The University of Lincoln’s BA (Hons) Dance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre degrees have an industry-designed curriculum which links the theoretical and academic study of dance and musical theatre with the practical and creative disciplines of technique, choreography, performance and musical theatre production.

As a Lecturer in Dance, your primary duties will be to teach and assess student work across a range of practical and theoretic modules on both programmes. You will have knowledge and a high level of professional expertise in dance and choreography for the contemporary musical theatre performer, and will be able to deliver practical skills training in the areas of jazz and/or commercial dance, devising and choreographing.

You will be expected to fulfil the role’s minimum requirements in scholarship and professional practice; to fulfil appropriate administrative and recruitment duties and you may also offer additional training expertise in such areas as: tap, ballet, industry awareness and approaches to employability.

Appointed on a Teaching, Scholarship and Professional Practice (TSPP) profile, colleagues would be expected to contribute to ongoing scholarly activity and pedagogic development, as well as pursue (where applicable) a professionally facing practice and/or developing productive connections to the professional sector.

Interviews for this role will be held ‘in person’ on the Brayford Campus on the publicised interview date.