Art Technician
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 02 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 1SG |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 137a0b04-df1a-4bd4-bbec-937a21874d5c |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone who:
• Enthusiastic and energetic with a strong drive to support students and the team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage students and collaborate effectively with staff, visiting artists and external partners.
• Technically skilled in art, design and digital media, with practical competence across specialist techniques.
• Digitally literate and IT proficient, including Adobe Creative Suite.
• Social media savvy, confident in promoting work and projects online.
• Organised and efficient, with strong time management skills.
• Adaptable and proactive, able to respond flexibly to changing demands and new opportunities.
• Passionate about art education, committed to supporting the values, vision, and direction of the school.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking to recruit an Innovative Art Technician to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where your mission is to be the technical and creative heart of a successful, ambitious Arts and Humanities Faculty. This is an incredible opportunity to make a profound difference by supporting the realisation of student outcomes, high-level creative projects and initiatives.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
The Art Technician role delivers high-level technical assistance, exceptional student support and leads promotional activity as the department enhances its influence, striving for academic and personal excellence.
• Student Success & Academic Impact: Drive creative and academic achievement by providing 1:1 technical guidance, digital support and portfolio development to help students reach their full potential.
• Teaching & Learning Enhancement: Facilitate specialist workshops and raise attainment levels to prepare students for higher education and careers in the creative industries.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the smooth daily running of the department by maintaining studio spaces, managing equipment/resources and overseeing administrative processes.
• Assessment & Organisation: Coordinate the logistical side of assessments to support efficient curriculum delivery.
• Safety & Environment: Maintain a proactive approach to health and safety, ensuring a safe, inspiring and well-organised environment where staff and students can thrive.
• Creative Community & Enrichment: Support the department's broader initiatives, including exhibitions, the Artist in Residence programme and the Dead Dog Gallery.
• Professional Practice: Connect students with authentic creative experiences that bridge the gap between the classroom and the professional art world.
• Departmental Advocacy: Act as a passionate advocate for art education, helping to position Durham Sixth Form Centre as a regional leader in art and design.
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Join Durham Sixth Form Centre as a Skilled Art Technician. Bring your technical expertise to our vibrant creative community and help shape the work of post-16 students in a high-performing environment. We are located in the heart of Durham, just 20 minutes from Sunderland and 30 minutes from Newcastle city centre.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Art Technician. We hope you are reading this because you are talented, enthusiastic and eager to join a successful and ambitious department at a truly transformative moment. This position has arisen to support our busy, growing team as we enhance our arts outreach and establish ourselves as a regional leader in creative education.
Who are we? The Art Department is a cornerstone of the Arts and Humanities Faculty, one of three faculties within the school. We are a dedicated team of creative practitioners with an established track record of outstanding practice. Our broad curriculum celebrates the diversity of the subject, offering A Level Art, Craft & Design, Fashion & Textiles, Fine Art, Graphics, Photography and the L4 Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media Practice.
At Durham Sixth Form Centre, our students are curious, engaged and highly ambitious. We maintain a strong commitment to academic excellence while ensuring our provision prepares students for the careers of the future. In collaboration with our students, we secure successful progression routes to higher education, apprenticeships and employment.
Excellence and Advocacy Housed in a purpose-built visual arts centre, our department is supported by a leadership team who actively advocate for the arts. Due to this well-established culture, we have been awarded Artsmark Platinum by Arts Council England, who commended our work:
• ‘The panel highly commends your continued commitment to the arts and the wide impact this is having on, not only your own school community, but on colleagues and pupils at a national level.’
• ‘Your advocacy of the arts, and utilisation of them as a vehicle for social mobility, are impressive.’
An Outward-Facing Creative Community We are an outward-facing team that thrives on collaboration. Our curriculum is enriched through an extensive programme of high-profile work with partner organisations such as Lumiere, The Big Draw, Durham University, and The Forge. You can see our vibrant community in action on our Instagram: @dsfcart.
A Hub for Innovation and Community You join us at an incredibly exciting time as we continue to expand our reach as a regional centre for excellence. Our Artist-in-Residence programme—now in its eighth year and supported by external funding—continues to go from strength to strength. This programme, alongside our commitment to providing an accessible community arts offer, is at the heart of our contemporary visual arts space: The Dead Dog Gallery.
As a technician, you will play a vital role in this onsite gallery, supporting a rotating calendar of professional exhibitions and residency outcomes that bridge the gap between our students and the wider creative industry.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are looking for someone who:
• Enthusiastic and energetic with a strong drive to support students and the team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage students and collaborate effectively with staff, visiting artists and external partners.
• Technically skilled in art, design and digital media, with practical competence across specialist techniques.
• Digitally literate and IT proficient, including Adobe Creative Suite.
• Social media savvy, confident in promoting work and projects online.
• Organised and efficient, with strong time management skills.
• Adaptable and proactive, able to respond flexibly to changing demands and new opportunities.
• Passionate about art education, committed to supporting the values, vision, and direction of the school.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking to recruit an Innovative Art Technician to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where your mission is to be the technical and creative heart of a successful, ambitious Arts and Humanities Faculty. This is an incredible opportunity to make a profound difference by supporting the realisation of student outcomes, high-level creative projects and initiatives.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
The Art Technician role delivers high-level technical assistance, exceptional student support and leads promotional activity as the department enhances its influence, striving for academic and personal excellence.
• Student Success & Academic Impact: Drive creative and academic achievement by providing 1:1 technical guidance, digital support and portfolio development to help students reach their full potential.
• Teaching & Learning Enhancement: Facilitate specialist workshops and raise attainment levels to prepare students for higher education and careers in the creative industries.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the smooth daily running of the department by maintaining studio spaces, managing equipment/resources and overseeing administrative processes.
• Assessment & Organisation: Coordinate the logistical side of assessments to support efficient curriculum delivery.
• Safety & Environment: Maintain a proactive approach to health and safety, ensuring a safe, inspiring and well-organised environment where staff and students can thrive.
• Creative Community & Enrichment: Support the department's broader initiatives, including exhibitions, the Artist in Residence programme and the Dead Dog Gallery.
• Professional Practice: Connect students with authentic creative experiences that bridge the gap between the classroom and the professional art world.
• Departmental Advocacy: Act as a passionate advocate for art education, helping to position Durham Sixth Form Centre as a regional leader in art and design.
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Join Durham Sixth Form Centre as a Skilled Art Technician. Bring your technical expertise to our vibrant creative community and help shape the work of post-16 students in a high-performing environment. We are located in the heart of Durham, just 20 minutes from Sunderland and 30 minutes from Newcastle city centre.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Art Technician. We hope you are reading this because you are talented, enthusiastic and eager to join a successful and ambitious department at a truly transformative moment. This position has arisen to support our busy, growing team as we enhance our arts outreach and establish ourselves as a regional leader in creative education.
Who are we? The Art Department is a cornerstone of the Arts and Humanities Faculty, one of three faculties within the school. We are a dedicated team of creative practitioners with an established track record of outstanding practice. Our broad curriculum celebrates the diversity of the subject, offering A Level Art, Craft & Design, Fashion & Textiles, Fine Art, Graphics, Photography and the L4 Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media Practice.
At Durham Sixth Form Centre, our students are curious, engaged and highly ambitious. We maintain a strong commitment to academic excellence while ensuring our provision prepares students for the careers of the future. In collaboration with our students, we secure successful progression routes to higher education, apprenticeships and employment.
Excellence and Advocacy Housed in a purpose-built visual arts centre, our department is supported by a leadership team who actively advocate for the arts. Due to this well-established culture, we have been awarded Artsmark Platinum by Arts Council England, who commended our work:
• ‘The panel highly commends your continued commitment to the arts and the wide impact this is having on, not only your own school community, but on colleagues and pupils at a national level.’
• ‘Your advocacy of the arts, and utilisation of them as a vehicle for social mobility, are impressive.’
An Outward-Facing Creative Community We are an outward-facing team that thrives on collaboration. Our curriculum is enriched through an extensive programme of high-profile work with partner organisations such as Lumiere, The Big Draw, Durham University, and The Forge. You can see our vibrant community in action on our Instagram: @dsfcart.
A Hub for Innovation and Community You join us at an incredibly exciting time as we continue to expand our reach as a regional centre for excellence. Our Artist-in-Residence programme—now in its eighth year and supported by external funding—continues to go from strength to strength. This programme, alongside our commitment to providing an accessible community arts offer, is at the heart of our contemporary visual arts space: The Dead Dog Gallery.
As a technician, you will play a vital role in this onsite gallery, supporting a rotating calendar of professional exhibitions and residency outcomes that bridge the gap between our students and the wider creative industry.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.