AFDA (The School of the Creative Economy) is the leading school of its kind in South Africa, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Motion Picture Medium, Live Performance, Business Innovation and Technology. 

AFDA is a full member of CILECT, the association of the world’s major film and television schools.

Applications are invited for the position of:

Costume make-up and styling lecturer. 

As the discipline lecturer for costume make-up and styling AFDA is looking for a committed and dedicated academic/industry professional to lecture and provide support to undergraduate students. The position requires someone with drive and initiative who is able to motivate students and guide them into the world of Costume, Make-up and Styling for the screen/stage. The candidate needs to demonstrate a willingness to embrace AFDA’s unique pedagogy which is the basis of the interdisciplinary teaching at AFDA. There is also a strong emphasis on cultural relevance within the teaching, and the need to help the students identify and develop a distinctive African voice to their productions. In this way we hope to be able to contribute to nation building and build the foundations for a sustainable local film industry. 

Key duties:

• Lecturing 1st, 2nd and 3rd year degree film students
• Conducting student consultations and reflective meetings
• Preparing and developing content and lesson plans for each term
• Drafting assessment registration forms for the term’s assessments
• Working with counter-parts to ensure parity across all campuses on term outcomes
• Attendance registers and class management administration
• Administrating student assignment hand-ins
• Marking all assignments
• Timetable planning
• Curriculum development
• Examining verbal assessments
• Managing make-up inventory
• Scheduling makeup and wardrobe bookings

Requirements and personal attributes:

• At least five years’ experience in the film and entertainment industry
• Relevant Masters degree
• Computer literacy
• Highly developed organisational skills
• Initiative
• Maturity to handle a range of situations
• A meticulous and thorough nature
• An ability to work to tight deadlines
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Loyalty and a high level of confidentiality
• Honest and trustworthy – committed to high integrity of excellence.
• Culturally aware and sensitive.
• A high degree of professional competency in costume design for fictional characters
• An intermediate degree of professional competency in pattern drafting
• An intermediate degree of professional competency in costume manufacturing
• A high degree of understanding of make-up for screen (focusing on period make up from the years 1900 to current)
• A high degree of understanding of hair styling (inclusive of wigs) for screen (focusing on period make up from the years 1900 to current)
• A high degree of professional competency in beauty make-up
• An intermediate understanding of professional competency in special effects make-up
• A high degree of professional competency in previsualization

Please send the following to

az.oc.adfa@ymuT

• A CV (no certificates)
• Email and telephone contact details
• Thre references

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Details

Type:                       Full-time fixed-term contract

Campus location:     Auckland Park, Johannesburg

Start date:               1 April 2019

Salary:                     Negotiable on experience and appropriate qualification.

Posted on 04 Mar 16:09

Sixty man development shop, historically proven to produce some of the top techies in SA, great ability to keep top developers engaged, happy and interested.

They seek strong web developers for advanced project work on a significant brand.

The nature of the person who does well with them:

• First of all, you love coding, tech, and the world of solving problems
• You are not an ‘order taker’ but rather a proactive solution creator and you buy into your craft
• Educational background is not as important as self-improvement and active self-investment (think everything from Stack to Codeeval)
• You want to work with top notch people and you want an emotional connection to your business

The tech experience they are hoping to find:

• Web, web, web
• You are designing and coding in Angular now
• You are knowledgeable in the other major JavaScript architectures
• You have at least competent skills in HTML5 and CSS3
• You have some skill in producing attractive UI – front-end designers not needed, this is an app developer role

You might also have (not essential but very useful to have): 

• Built major applications using Java or C# or similar
• Design patterns knowledge specifically MVC or GWT (or similar)
• jQuery/JSON
• Experience in a TDD driven team
• Azure or AWS
• Grunt
• NPM
• Bower
• CHEF

Salaries are negotiable on experience and skill. Client will consider anyone from about five years’ experience (R40,000 to R45,000 per month) through to serious veterans (R70,000). Salaries quoted are gross rates, in addition, you will receive a petrol card (in real terms about R1,500 per month to your nett), a similar deal on your cell, Medical Aid, pension fund, quarterly bonuses and reviews as well as extensive amounts of investment in terms of training. Oh, there’s also a major belief in coffee which is replaced by beer on Friday afternoons.

Reference number for this position is JP36815 which is a permanent position based in Woodmead offering a salary negotiable up to R70,000 gross per month. 

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az.oc.egrem-e@nosaj

immediately or call on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

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If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 04 Mar 15:21