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Department: 120101 - College of Design
Location: Raleigh, NC
Essential Job Duties:
The Design Lab for K-12 Education at NC State University College of Design is hiring temporary, part time, weekend workshop instructors to teach Saturday workshops, with an Industrial Design, Media Arts, Design & Technology, Architecture, or Graphic & Experience Design disciplinary focus, to middle school and high school aged students. Weekend Workshops will be held over the course of the 2026 Fall and 2027 Spring semesters.
Job duties include:
- Attending planning meetings with Design Lab staff and program facilitators as needed.
- Planning & Developing, and Implementing Workshops that:
- Introduce students to design thinking and the design process through challenge-based activities that address the experience of environments, objects, and communication.
- Engage students in the critical evaluation of the designed world.
- Guide students in identifying real-world problems that they can help solve through design.
- Integrate content and skills from a variety of school subject areas in the solution of design challenges to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of problem solving in design.
- Guide students through a design review.
- If applicable, acquaint students with design precedents (environments, objects, and communication) and how design addresses the physical, cognitive, social/cultural, and/or technological demands of context.
- If applicable, acculturate students to the studio environment and its collaborative and evaluative practices.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- A high degree of initiative and aptitude to work collaboratively as well as independently
- Ability to take and follow direction, while also having a creative eye for improvements
- Ability and willingness to be flexible and adapt to work changes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience and demonstrated success planning and implementing design projects
- Strong classroom management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with photo documentation (of projects and events)
- Interest in design education for K-12 students
Required license or certification:
N/A
Position Number: 12APL17
AA/EEO Statement:
NC State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal opportunities for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, and veteran status. The University encourages all qualified applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, to apply. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process are welcome to contact [contact details available in the full listing] to speak with a representative of the Office of Equal Opportunity.
If you have general questions about the application process, you may contact Human Resources at [contact details available in the full listing] or [contact details available in the full listing].
Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit.
NC State University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.
If you have general questions about the application process, you may contact Human Resources at [contact details available in the full listing] or [contact details available in the full listing].
Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit.
NC State University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.
