Full-Time Faculty Position in Communication Design, School of Art and Design
Apply NowCompany: Fashion Institute of Technology
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
About Fashion Institute of Technology:
The Fashion Institute of Technology (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 Fashion Institute of Technology, a part of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for over 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 Communication Design Pathways Department creates academic experiences that inform, inspire and educate the next generation of global design leaders. We educate students to be design thinkers and problem solvers, while preparing them for design careers.
Communication Design Foundation is an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) program within the Communication Design Pathways Department. On completion of this degree, students are eligible to apply for a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Advertising and Digital Design, Graphic Design, Packaging Design, or Spatial Experience Design.
Communication Design Foundation provides students with a comprehensive study of the diverse means and tools of visual communication. In this program students study digital design, design process, typography, and color theory, and develop the fundamental abilities that lead to a successful career in the increasingly competitive design professions. In addition, students master a wide range of conceptual design development and the technological tools for exploring design in the digital age.
Job Description:
Forward-thinking, collaborative, technologically advanced graphic and communication designer. Expertise in two dimensional and three-dimensional design with an innovative approach to integration of technology, traditional tools and visual communication. Candidates should have knowledge across contemporary approaches, concepts, techniques, and issues as they pertain to the range of practices that are associated with, identity design, motion graphics, typeface design, visual language, digital design, and spatial design.
Successful candidates will excel in the following areas:
Globalism
The new full-time line must have an international world view including exploring best practices and other systems from around the world. In particular focusing on expanding on the best practices embodied in our heavily international student body.
Instructional Design
The new full-time professor must have experience in codifying technological and learning innovation in the classroom into curricular advancement throughout the lower and upper division and collaborate with the CD staff in identifying and advancing best practices.
Learning Enrichment
The new full-time professor must have experience in student enrichment, particularly through methodologies for education across a wide range of technology, research and process disciplines of the program.
Professionalism
The new full-time line will be expected to be an accomplished designer in the diverse field of communication design. The designer should be working professionally and academically in an area of communication design that requires expansive experimentation and capabilities. Areas like interaction design, spatial design, and 360 design projects would provide that approach.
Technology
The new full-time line should possess an understanding of current two- and three-dimensional software employed in the graphic and experiential design fields. These include expertise in recurring software tools, led by Adobe Creative Suite, and material-oriented tools that can link the digital and physical realms. The professor should also be capable of research into new software and hardware tools that students can further explore and integrate into the program.
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position; other duties may be assigned consistent with the classification of the position.
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Information:
Please note, all offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of the background check process.
Salary
The final starting salary and appointment rank will be based on education level and cumulative experience; Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Salary Schedules pg. 72.
Instructor: $65,207.33 - $75,971.53
Assistant Professor: $75,917.54 - $111,883.11
Associate Professor: $88,858.05 -133,780.10
Professor: $108,354.52 - $163,053.55
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.
Benefits
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) provides comprehensive employee benefit programs designed to help keep our faculty and staff and their families healthy, safe, happy, and productive. Our programs also include a variety of components to help our employees improve the quality and balance of their work and family lives, and to help them prepare for their futures.
For a full list of FIT benefits, visit our benefits webpage.
Pay Equity by State Employers
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Visa Sponsorship
This position is eligible for visa sponsorship by the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
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, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, religion, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military service status, genetic information, pregnancy, familial status, citizenship status (except as required to comply with law), 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. Applications from minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged. Inquiries regarding FIT's non-discrimination policies may be directed to the Chief Diversity Officer/Title IX Coordinator, 212 217.3360, titleix@fitnyc.edu.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
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.
The Fashion Institute of Technology (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 Fashion Institute of Technology, a part of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for over 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 Communication Design Pathways Department creates academic experiences that inform, inspire and educate the next generation of global design leaders. We educate students to be design thinkers and problem solvers, while preparing them for design careers.
Communication Design Foundation is an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) program within the Communication Design Pathways Department. On completion of this degree, students are eligible to apply for a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Advertising and Digital Design, Graphic Design, Packaging Design, or Spatial Experience Design.
Communication Design Foundation provides students with a comprehensive study of the diverse means and tools of visual communication. In this program students study digital design, design process, typography, and color theory, and develop the fundamental abilities that lead to a successful career in the increasingly competitive design professions. In addition, students master a wide range of conceptual design development and the technological tools for exploring design in the digital age.
Job Description:
Forward-thinking, collaborative, technologically advanced graphic and communication designer. Expertise in two dimensional and three-dimensional design with an innovative approach to integration of technology, traditional tools and visual communication. Candidates should have knowledge across contemporary approaches, concepts, techniques, and issues as they pertain to the range of practices that are associated with, identity design, motion graphics, typeface design, visual language, digital design, and spatial design.
Successful candidates will excel in the following areas:
Globalism
The new full-time line must have an international world view including exploring best practices and other systems from around the world. In particular focusing on expanding on the best practices embodied in our heavily international student body.
- 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
The new full-time professor must have experience in codifying technological and learning innovation in the classroom into curricular advancement throughout the lower and upper division and collaborate with the CD staff in identifying and advancing best practices.
- 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
The new full-time professor must have experience in student enrichment, particularly through methodologies for education across a wide range of technology, research and process disciplines of the program.
- 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
The new full-time line will be expected to be an accomplished designer in the diverse field of communication design. The designer should be working professionally and academically in an area of communication design that requires expansive experimentation and capabilities. Areas like interaction design, spatial design, and 360 design projects would provide that approach.
- Demonstrate continued engagement in creative and/or scholarly work in the discipline of fine arts, graphic design or spatial 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
The new full-time line should possess an understanding of current two- and three-dimensional software employed in the graphic and experiential design fields. These include expertise in recurring software tools, led by Adobe Creative Suite, and material-oriented tools that can link the digital and physical realms. The professor should also be capable of research into new software and hardware tools that students can further explore and integrate into the program.
- Demonstrate technological skills relating to software and hardware widely used in the graphic design profession.
- Demonstrate knowledge of additional software design tools including dimensional modeling, animation and tools that connect the digital and physical realms.
- Demonstrate a commitment to maintain currency in technological skills and knowledge.
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position; other duties may be assigned consistent with the classification of the position.
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's of Fine Arts required in a design program including graphic design, fine arts, industrial design, architecture or digital design.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of academic and/or professional experience.
- Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including the interrelationship of suite software in the design process.
- Working interest in the interplay between hand and digital skills both two and three dimensionally.
- Knowledge of how typography, iconography, color and information interact in different mediums.
- Knowledge of storytelling methodologies including process documentation, storyboarding and visual language.
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of different communication design mediums such as environmental graphics, user interface design and packaging design.
- Knowledge of animation software methodologies as part of the design process.
- Ability to combine design with communication with multiple media channels including print, digital interface and social media.
- Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and student success, as well as working with broadly diverse communities.
- Excellent communication skills, including writing and presentation development.
- Can build relationships, communicate adesign rationale and work with faculty, students and industry stakeholders.
- Ability to advance design curriculum that supports the integration of technical and design skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's of Fine Arts degree preferred or doctoral degree in graphic design or a closely related discipline.
- A minimum of ten (10) years professional and academic experience serving as a faculty member.
- Prior teaching experience with curriculum development and/or experience teaching new design courses
Additional Information:
Please note, all offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of the background check process.
Salary
The final starting salary and appointment rank will be based on education level and cumulative experience; Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Salary Schedules pg. 72.
Instructor: $65,207.33 - $75,971.53
Assistant Professor: $75,917.54 - $111,883.11
Associate Professor: $88,858.05 -133,780.10
Professor: $108,354.52 - $163,053.55
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.
Benefits
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) provides comprehensive employee benefit programs designed to help keep our faculty and staff and their families healthy, safe, happy, and productive. Our programs also include a variety of components to help our employees improve the quality and balance of their work and family lives, and to help them prepare for their futures.
- Retirement Plans
- Health Care Plan and Dental Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Account
- Commuter Benefit Plan
- FIT Tuition Exemption Program
- Qualifying Employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
For a full list of FIT benefits, visit our benefits webpage.
Pay Equity by State Employers
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Visa Sponsorship
This position is eligible for visa sponsorship by the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
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, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, religion, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military service status, genetic information, pregnancy, familial status, citizenship status (except as required to comply with law), 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. Applications from minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged. Inquiries regarding FIT's non-discrimination policies may be directed to the Chief Diversity Officer/Title IX Coordinator, 212 217.3360, titleix@fitnyc.edu.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
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.