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    Part-time (Daytime) Lecturer (Illustration)
    School for Higher and Professional Education (DILWL)
     
    Ref. no : O/SHAPE(DILWL)/PTD_L(Ill)/07/25
     
    The School for Higher and Professional Education (SHAPE) is a self-financed arm of the Vocational Training Council (VTC). It offers top-up bachelor degree programmes to VTC’s Higher Diploma graduates and other sub-degree holders in collaboration with overseas universities.  Applications are now invited for part-time (Daytime) Lecturer posts for the programme of BA (Hons) Illustration offered at SHAPE (DILWL) in the academic year 2025/26.
     
    Subject Area:
    Illustration
    - Hand-drawn and Digital Illustrations
    - Editorial and Conceptual Illustration
    - Narrative Illustration and Picture Book Design
    - Comics, Manga and Graphic Novel
    - Character Design and Concept Art for movies, animations and video games
    - Storyboard, Hand-drawn and Digital Visualization
    - Informative Illustration and Graphic Design
    - Personal visual language and sketchbook development
    - Live drawing, painting and quick sketching techniques
     
    Major Duties:
    (a) To conduct lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and project supervision at the bachelor’s degree level;
    (b) To carry out academic-related administration duties, including setting and marking assignments, moderation, and serving in academic and other related meetings;
    (c) To conduct live demonstrations of different types of hand-drawn and digital illustration techniques;
    (d) To develop programme curriculum and teaching, learning and assessment materials;
    (e) To introduce the standards and requirements for different types of professional illustrations;
    (f) To coordinate guest lectures; and
    (g) To participate in school projects and functions, where necessary.
       
    Requirements:
    (a) A recognised master’s degree in relevant discipline and/or equivalent professional qualification in the relevant subject areas;
    (b) At least 4 years’ relevant teaching experience at tertiary / work experience in the respective field(s);
    (c) Be familiar with the history and overall development of global illustrations and have a deep understanding of local illustration culture and market;
    (d) With extensive experience in narrative, conceptual and informative illustration. Experience in specialty areas such as murals, 3D trick art, fashion illustration, architectural illustration, wildlife art and paleontology illustration is preferred;
    (e) Candidate(s) with work experience in advertising agencies, graphic design companies or publishing houses are preferred;
    (f) In addition to illustration knowledge, candidates have experience in fine art creation, and experience in fine art exhibitions is preferred;
    (g) Candidate(s) with core membership of professional bodies such as the Hong Kong Society of Illustrators will be given preference;
    (h) Good communication and presentation skills in English;
    (i) Good interpersonal skills; and
    (j) Preference will be given to candidate(s) with teaching experience in tertiary education.


    Application Procedures:
    Interested applicants should apply for the post via email.  A completed application form [VTC-1 (Rev. 11/2024)], together with a full curriculum vitae, should be sent to dilwlshape@vtc.edu.hk.
     
    Candidates should take note of the following:
    (1) Completed application form (VTC-1) and detailed curriculum vitae (CV) should be combined into one file in PDF format with a file size below 10MB.
    (2) The file should be saved with the applicant’s name as “surname and given name”, e.g. “CHAN Siu-lam.pdf”.
    (3) For the email subject, please cite “Application for Part-time (Daytime) Lecturer (Illustration) (Ref. no. O/SHAPE(DILWL)/PTD_L(Ill)/07/25)”.
    (4) Original and copy of other supporting documents are to be provided at a later stage upon request.
     
    Closing date for application: 27 July 2025
     
    Applicants not invited for interview within 10 weeks from the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful.
     
    The Council reserves the right not to fill the post(s).
     
    Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. Information on unsuccessful candidates will normally be destroyed 12 months after the completion of the recruitment exercise.


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