IN4 Group are a UK leader in digital transformation and talent development. We help businesses adopt digital technologies, and recruit highly skilled, diverse workforces capable of the innovation needed to thrive.

The Group also operates HOST – a technology hub and innovation centre in MediaCityUK that’s focused on attracting digital tech businesses to accelerate their growth, delivering innovation services to start-ups, scale-ups, global corporate and government organisations. People, place, and culture drive everything we do and at the heart of our business is our commitment to diversity and inclusivity.

Our 3 pillars:

• Skills: To building local capabilities and capacity to address job demand. Skills City offers a unique turnkey solution to activate and nurture local diverse talent into tech roles.
• Innovation: To support the starting, scaling, and continued productivity of organisations enabled by technology.
• Community: Delivering the UKs most successful STEM Educational Enrichment Programme CyberFirst that creates a pathway for local youngsters to achieve the best tech career starts.

We are seeking up to 2 Technical Instructors to join our professional and dynamic team, playing a key role within our Skills City operation and leading on delivery of The Creative Engine Programme at School of Digital Arts (SODA) Located in Manchester.

This programme is an exciting new initiative involving Unreal Engine, Motion Capture and Virtual Production. The ideal candidate will be a master of Unreal Engine and be familiar with pipelines used in Motion Capture and Virtual Production. This programme also involves helping the learners to work on a groundbreaking live entertainment project with dock10 and a leading broadcast production team.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome all applications.

This is a contract role open for UK-based candidates for a 12 week duration aligning with our cohort start date (06 May 2025) that requires your full-time availability during the bootcamp period.

With approximately 25% of the teaching taking place in person at the motion capture and green screen virtual production facilities at SODA, we are ideally looking for local instructors who will be willing to travel to SODA and complement the teaching. There will be Motion Capture and Virtual Production technicians at SODA who will be delivering the teaching at these facilities; however we would expect the instructors to work with these technicians to ensure that the programme flows nicely between the online and in person teaching. There will also be the opportunity for these instructors to teach the cohorts in groups in other spaces at SODA, as the facilities cannot accommodate the entire cohort.

Another important aspect of the role will be integrating the dock10 project within the curriculum and support the learners in the creation of this content.

Therefore, we are looking for instructors who will support with designing the curriculum and communicate with our different stakeholders to ensure optimum outcome.

Key Dates

We are looking for someone to start ASAP on a part time basis. 

The bootcamp is 11 weeks long and starts on May 12th. Delivery timetables below: (apart from the in person days which will be 9am-5pm)

 Evening Cohort:
Evening - Mon-Fri 5:00PM-9:00PM

 Daytime Cohort:
Daytime - Mon 9:30AM-4:00PM
Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9:30AM-1:00PM

For the in person sessions for both the Daytime and Evening Cohorts there will be
approximately seven in person sessions per cohort at the Motion Capture and Virtual
Production Studio at SODA. These will be held during the weekdays
9:00AM to 5:00PM. Most of these sessions are expected to take place in July with exact dates and timings to be confirmed.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Curriculum Development

• Design and implement a comprehensive curriculum covering key aspects of Unreal Engine specifically for media production (real-time lighting, rendering, sequencer, mo-cap and VP pipelines)
• Work closely with facility and industry project stakeholders, other instructors and technical specialists to continually improve the course content and delivery.

 Instruction and Delivery

• Deliver engaging and informative lessons, both theoretical and practical, to a diverse group of students with varying levels of experience.
• Ensuring student engagement per program requirements
• Offering support in the industry project and mentoring the learners throughout
• Workshops and Demonstrations (some in person at SODA): Conduct technical workshops and live demonstrations to reinforce learning and provide hands-on experience.
• Follow a lesson plan for every session, using clear learning objectives at each session start, summary of learning objectives.

 Student Support:

• Provide one-on-one guidance and mentorship to help students with their projects and ensure they understand complex concepts.
• Guide and mentor students towards achieving technical expertise and career opportunities. Conduct technical mock interviews with the learners
• Develop and administer assessments to evaluate student progress and adjust teaching methods accordingly.

Skills City Team Comms and Support

• Support the Skills City team in timetabling and monitoring student learning progress
• Administering LMS tasks such as scheduling sessions, managing attendance and uploading session recordings, registering participants and creating/editing instructor resources
• Evaluate and provide feedback to all learners’ activities and submissions promptly.
• Working closely with the learning strategy team to preserve a consistent program experience for all learners through a defined curriculum, milestones, and interactions
• Providing content and class feedback to the learning strategy team led by Quality Assurance Manager to drive improvements
• Be available and respond to all official communication via MS Teams chat, Email, etc. throughout working hours.
• Be willing to support with other tasks as and when required.
• Attend workshops and feedback meetings with internal staff to accommodate feedback and ensure compliance with skills city requirements

Personal attributes

• Be passionate about developing talent across all backgrounds to drive up economic and social mobility.
• Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Committed to continuous learning and professional development.
• Self-driven
• Friendly but assertive
• Excellent communication skills
• Time management
• Teamwork
• Inquisitive
• Creative

Skills

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and essential skills:

• Minimum of 1 year teaching experience in a similar role
• Knowledge and experience of Unreal Engine
• Curriculum design and content creation
• Microsoft proficient
• Project management experience
• Ability to deliver engaging teaching and learning sessions remotely
• Excellent stand–up delivery and facilitation skills and strong “stage presence” that drives key learning outcomes and motivates application of knowledge beyond the classroom
• A passion for learning