Art & Design –Technical Support Facilitator (Linked to Textiles)
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,477 to £25,800 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 July 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Exeter College |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you a hands-on creative with a flair for textiles and a love of all things 3D, ceramic, and print? Are you passionate about supporting students as they explore, experiment, and create?
We’re looking for a multi-skilled, enthusiastic Technical Support Facilitator to join our inspiring and diverse Art & Design Faculty. In this role, you'll provide technical guidance and practical support across a range of specialist areas, including:
- Textile Workshop Print Room
- Ceramics Studio
- 3D Workshop
- Wider Art & Design Faculty Spaces
Whether it’s helping a student screen print their first design, guiding safe use of workshop equipment, or assisting in a clay throwing session, you’ll be at the heart of creative learning to give students an outstanding educational experience.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver technical support across multiple creative disciplines.
- Maintain equipment and ensure safe working practices in studios and workshops.
- Collaborate with academic staff to support dynamic, practical learning experiences.
- Encourage student independence, experimentation, and craftsmanship.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong technical knowledge of textiles processes (e.g. sewing, dyeing, fabric manipulation).
- Experience of a wide range of art and design techniques from using a 3D printer, use of woodwork machinery to print making and ceramics.
- A textiles/fashion background would be of particular interest.
- A can-do attitude, with great problem-solving and communication skills.
- Prior experience in an education or creative workshop environment is a bonus!
Why Join Us?:
- Work in a vibrant and innovative faculty
- Support passionate learners on vocational and academic pathways.
- Enjoy being part of a collaborative, friendly, creative team.
Join us in shaping the makers, designers, and innovators of tomorrow.
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more.
And see what our staff have to say here.
Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddle boarding. Read more on our careers page.
Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Tuesday 8th July 2025 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on Wednesday 16th July 2025
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.
We’re looking for a multi-skilled, enthusiastic Technical Support Facilitator to join our inspiring and diverse Art & Design Faculty. In this role, you'll provide technical guidance and practical support across a range of specialist areas, including:
- Textile Workshop Print Room
- Ceramics Studio
- 3D Workshop
- Wider Art & Design Faculty Spaces
Whether it’s helping a student screen print their first design, guiding safe use of workshop equipment, or assisting in a clay throwing session, you’ll be at the heart of creative learning to give students an outstanding educational experience.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver technical support across multiple creative disciplines.
- Maintain equipment and ensure safe working practices in studios and workshops.
- Collaborate with academic staff to support dynamic, practical learning experiences.
- Encourage student independence, experimentation, and craftsmanship.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong technical knowledge of textiles processes (e.g. sewing, dyeing, fabric manipulation).
- Experience of a wide range of art and design techniques from using a 3D printer, use of woodwork machinery to print making and ceramics.
- A textiles/fashion background would be of particular interest.
- A can-do attitude, with great problem-solving and communication skills.
- Prior experience in an education or creative workshop environment is a bonus!
Why Join Us?:
- Work in a vibrant and innovative faculty
- Support passionate learners on vocational and academic pathways.
- Enjoy being part of a collaborative, friendly, creative team.
Join us in shaping the makers, designers, and innovators of tomorrow.
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more.
And see what our staff have to say here.
Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddle boarding. Read more on our careers page.
Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Tuesday 8th July 2025 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on Wednesday 16th July 2025
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.