Casual Animation Tutor

Incredible, supportive team
- Industry leading campuses all equipped with the latest tech and equipment
- Creative working environment

**About the role**:
An amazing opportunity to join our growing Yoobee Christchurch campus to support in the delivery of our Bachelor of Animation Programme on a casual basis. This role is responsible for the delivery of the course when the permanent Lecturers are away, hours will vary and can range from **9 hours up to 12 hours per week.**

You will be walking into an energetic environment where value is placed on delivering outcomes rather than micro-managing work and tasks. You will be given autonomy to work in a way that gets the best results and will be expected to take responsibility and make things happen.

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

- Participate in the continuous improvement of course content and teaching resources
- Deliver assessments and evaluate to prescribed national and local qualification standards
- Assist with the care and maintenance of classrooms/labs and teaching equipment and resources including marketing and campus events
- Record of accurate student data, assessment results, attendance, student-at-risk and other required documentation

**About you**:
You will describe yourself as an accomplished animation practitioner who is enthusiastic, positive, patient, and motivated self-starter who has a passion for sharing knowledge and trying new things. Your exceptional communication and time management skills, along with the ability to connect and build relationships will be the key to your success

To be successful in this role, you will have experience in some or all the following key discipline skills:

- Adobe PS, AE
- Animate or Toonboom
- Maya - Animating/Texturing/Modelling
- Experience with different animation styles and experimental animation
- Basic modelling - Lighting, Camera Staging, pre-viz, rendering.
- Breaking down pipelines
- Concept Art / Visual Communication Design Theory
- Character Design

In addition you will have:

- A Degree level qualification in animation or related frield
- Experience with a range of research methodologies and ideally experience supervising research
- Skills and experience with 3D modelling, texturing, and preproduction skills, e.g., design, storyboards animatics
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams, and confidence in coordinating and supervising team projects
- An ability to connect with students through a variety of delivery methods and provide basic pastoral care and support
- Keen to expand your adult teaching skillset as part of your professional development
- Game art and design would be an advantage
- Commitment to Te Tiriti O Waitangi

**Why work with us?**

Yoobee Colleges prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture - open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences. We are fast movers, action orientated, keen innovators, and quick thinkers who enjoy a workplace that is inspiring and fun.

Making a difference to someone’s life by sharing your industry knowledge, experience and stories is incredibly exciting and rewarding. We work passionately to prepare our students’ to be ‘work ready, world ready’ for an industry we love... and you can be a part of this.

**Who are we?**

At Yoobee Colleges, we believe learning should be defined by the exceptional. New Zealand’s largest specialist creative and technology college; we’ve been fuelling the creative and tech industries for over 30 years with talented Animators, Filmmakers, Designers, Techies, and Game Developers. We offer online delivery, alongside our campuses based in Auckland, Wellington, Rotorua and Christchurch.

**To Apply**:
**We are an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to equity, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to an inclusive work environment.