All NSCAD campuses closed at noon, February 24, 2024 due to freezing rain. All campuses will reopen at 9 a.m. on February 25.

Careers

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

NSCAD University employs 85 regular full-time and part-time faculty, 30 educational resource personnel, 60 staff members and more than 50 individual course instructors in a creative working environment. We offer opportunities to influence the next generation of art and design, create a healthy working atmosphere and to inspire the rule breakers, the dreamers, the makers, the innovators, the exceptional and the forever curious.

 

Working at NSCAD is a vibrant, stimulating and exciting place to be. To inspire the extraordinary, we have to be the extraordinary. Can you add to that? If you can, then we have the perfect atmosphere for you to grow.

 

Please review our open positions and part-time vacancy and full-time vacancy notices and see if you have a place here in the NSCAD community.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

NSCAD University employs 85 regular full-time and part-time faculty, 30 educational resource personnel, 60 staff members and more than 50 individual course instructors in a creative working environment. We offer opportunities to influence the next generation of art and design, create a healthy working atmosphere and to inspire the rule breakers, the dreamers, the makers, the innovators, the exceptional and the forever curious.

Working at NSCAD is a vibrant, stimulating and exciting place to be. To inspire the extraordinary, we have to be the extraordinary. Can you add to that? If you can, then we have the perfect atmosphere for you to grow.

Please review our open positions and part-time vacancy and full-time vacancy notices and see if you have a place here in the NSCAD community.

HIRING PRACTICES

Recruitment and hiring practices at NSCAD University do not discriminate against any candidate with respect to hiring on the basis of race, colour, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship (except where required by the Immigration Act), physical handicap (as defined in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act), age, creed, ethnic or national origin, religion, political affiliation and political beliefs (provided such do not interfere with the operation of the university), or membership or non-membership in one of the university’s unions.

Excellence, diversity and equity form the foundation of the University’s hiring objectives and practices, and the vacancy goals for achieving diversity and employment equity among its faculty and staff are realized through equity outreach and due consideration of qualified candidates.

NSCAD is committed to achieving and maintaining a workforce that reflects and affirms the diversity of our society and works together in providing a discrimination-free environment, characterized by respect and equity, where people can exercise their individual potential. 

COHORT HIRE 2023

As part of NSCAD’s ongoing implementation of anti-racist practices and dismantling of oppressive institutional structures, NSCAD University is pleased to announce a cohort hiring initiative of six faculty members who identify as Black, Indigenous or racialized. For more information, click here.