Life Drawing Model

Idea Store Learning Vacancy  

The Adult Community Learning team at Idea Store Learning is seeking to further engage the residents of Tower Hamlets in our popular range of day, evening and weekend short courses. 

Our mission is to provide learning, which is creative, ambitious and affordable, to help our learners reach their potential.

Role Purpose

We are seeking to recruit up to 4 persons to our pool of life models, to support our Life/Figure Drawing course held at Idea Store Learning. 

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have:

• experience of working as a life drawing model within an educational setting;
• experience of posing clothed or unclothed;
• be able to hold short and longer sustained poses;
• be extremely reliable in attending the agreed booked sessions and punctual;
• be able to communicate effectively with management/the lead tutor in responding to availability requests;
• an understanding of working with mixed ability groups who use traditional methods of observational life painting and drawing.

Additional Information

Classes are usually scheduled during term time and normally run for 2 – 3 hours on a Friday morning.  Courses are usually 9 weeks long over 3 terms per year.   

Appointees will be placed in a ‘pool’ of models and asked to attend sessions on a rota basis. Intermittent long-term availability is therefore a feature of this post.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning Monday 20th January 2025.

Please note the post is dependent on the Councils recruitment procedures which include:

• a formal written application,
• interview,
• references,
• and a DBS check. 

Application Details

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Internal/ External/ Agency

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted. Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/careers

''Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.''