"Temporary Design Lab for K-12 Education Weekend Workshop Instructor"

Company:

North Carolina State University

Job Location:

Category:

Industrial Design

Type:

Full-Time

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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, workshop instructors to teach workshops with an Industrial Design, Media Arts, Design & Technology, Architecture, or Graphic & Experience Design disciplinary focus, to middle school and high school aged students. Workshops will be held over the course of the 2026 Spring semester.

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: 12APL14

AA/EEO Statement:
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