Lecturer, Creative Boardroom: Collaborateclimate

School/Unit: Creative Futures Academy, Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Project

Post Title & Subject Area: Part-Time Lecturer

Total Hours: This project includes up to 200 person-hours for development, design, delivery, evaluation, and reporting. These hours may be split across panel members and will be determined by the availability and expertise required.

Rate of Pay: €65.85 per hour, NCAD Part-Time Lecturer Hourly Rate

Start Date: Immediately

Please outline your interests in the work, professional practice and any other relevant experience in your application.

CFA

The Creative Futures Academy (details here) provides opportunities for postgraduate students and professionals to undertake focused learning, usually in concentrated or short format courses and often scheduled in ways that allow part time study to be combined flexibly with professional practice.

Description

Creative Futures Academy (CFA) at NCAD invites applications from experienced design practitioners and educators to develop and deliver a series of immersive, design-led workshops as part of the Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate programme which will start in early Autumn.

About Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate

Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate is a pioneering all-island initiative, funded by Creative Ireland’s Climate Action Programme, and developed in partnership with the Institute of Directors Ireland and the Institute of Directors Northern Ireland. The programme responds to the urgent challenge of climate change by embedding design thinking and sustainability into decision-making processes across businesses, public bodies and civic organisations.

The programme brings together agents of change with the shared ambition to create actionable solutions for our planet. It is supported by directors of small and medium enterprises, the public sector, and multinational organisations across Ireland, each committed to enabling positive behavioural change for future generations.

Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate is working to embed five key recommendations that resulted from the first iteration of the programme within corporate organisations and public sector bodies:

As part of a phase 2 funded programme Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate (CBC4C) will tour the exhibition designed during phase 1 using sustainable design principles to private and public sector organisations, North and South, across the Island of Ireland. The exhibition brings into focus the core challenges impacting Ireland’s climate responsibilities— food, transport, textiles and the built environment in an accessible and impactful way. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of day-long design thinking workshops with ‘Strategising for Sustainable Futures’as a key focus. Workshops are intended to support businesses and bodies interested in future-scaping to adapt to doing new things in an evolving climate environment.

Scope of Work

We are seeking applications from individuals to be part of a panel (max. 3) of experts to:

● Co-develop workshop concepts in collaboration with CFA and exhibition partners.

● Design and prototype workshop activities using participatory and design-led methodologies.

● Deliver 5–10 full-day workshops across various locations on the island of Ireland in 2025.

Workshops will engage with groups of 8 - 12 participants that may include a mixed cohort of students, board members and C-suite professionals.

Workshop Focus

Workshops will be aligned with a series of public exhibitions and aim to:

● Build shared understanding around climate action.

● Explore future-facing design solutions.

● Engage staff, boards and stakeholders in systemic change.

● Make sustainability and climate innovation central to leadership practices.

Each workshop will respond to the theme of ‘Strategising for Sustainable Futures’ and will work with groups using an agreed and relevant selection of design thinking methodologies to:

We welcome applications from individuals with demonstrable experience of working with business leaders, boards, and civic actors and expertise in:

● Design thinking and participatory facilitation methods.

● Climate action, sustainability, and systems change.

If you have any queries, please contact Bernie McCoy mccoyb@staff.ncad.ie