Impact Mentoring Tutor at MAPS
The Master of Photography & Society (MAPS) of Royal Academy of Art is looking for an Impact Mentoring Tutor (0.08 FTE).
Vacancy number: 26-041
What will you do?
You will teach Impact Mentoring, a year-long mentoring trajectory embedded in Year 1 of MAPS. The course accompanies and deepens students’ work in studio practices, focusing on how photographic practices operate within and act upon social realities. It explores the internal, interpersonal and external impact that work carries, moving through three interwoven movements: internal inquiry, relational and interpersonal impact, and social impact and public presentation.
The course consists of 16 classes spread across the full academic year, organised in three parts. You will guide students through embodied and reflective exercises, stakeholder mapping, ethical frameworks for working with participants, and the development of public-facing presentation strategies. Throughout, you connect conceptual, ethical and methodological questions to students’ ongoing projects.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and facilitate 16 classes across the academic year, spanning three thematic parts: internal inquiry, relational impact, and social impact and exhibition;
- Guide students in connecting personal motivations, research questions and bodily awareness to their photographic practice;
- Facilitate sessions on relational and ethical dimensions of practice, including consent, stakeholder mapping and collaborative protocols;
- Support students in developing and testing strategies for public impact, including exhibition formats, audience engagement and material choices;
- Provide individual feedback sessions alongside group and collective work;
- Collaborate closely with studio tutors to ensure Impact Mentoring is embedded in and responsive to the broader curriculum of MAPS;
- Participate in collective presentations and contribute to the assessment process where relevant.
Your profile
We are looking for a practitioner and educator who can hold space for deep reflection while keeping students grounded in the concrete realities of their practice and its impact in the world.
- Education, preferably at least MA level in photography, lens-based media, or a closely related field;
- An active practice that engages with the social, political or ethical dimensions of photography and image-making;
- Experience in facilitation methods that engage the body, reflection and group dynamics – such as somatic practices, embodied pedagogy or participatory methods;
- Familiarity with concepts of impact, public engagement and collaborative practice in artistic and documentary contexts;
- Experience working with issues of consent, ethics and responsibility in image-making and in working with communities or participants;
- Previous experience in teaching or mentoring at BA or MA level;
- The cultural competency to interact with a community of learners from varied backgrounds, social identities and gender expressions;
- A high level of fluency in spoken and written English;
- You have EU status or are meeting the criteria of an EU work permit
About us
The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) together with the Royal Conservatoire forms the University of the Arts, The Hague. KABK was founded in 1682, making it the oldest art academy in the Netherlands. KABK forms a community in which knowledge and passion go hand in hand.
Our education is intensive, structured, and small-scale, with students having considerable freedom to shape their personal interests and ambitions. Our programmes are focused on an eminently international professional field and are taught in English.
KABK offers 7 bachelor’s and 6 master’s programmes, a School for Young Talent, and various other preparatory programmes. The University of the Arts, The Hague is located at two sites in the centre of The Hague.
MAPS is a two-year master’s program that has been offered at the KABK since September 2018. MAPS trains socially engaged photographers of the 21st century who have an active interest in the technological, political, environmental and social role of photography.
The core of MAPS is image-making, but the degree also challenges you to look beyond the boundaries of photography and use the medium as a vehicle to engage in global debate. We enable you to mediate in the relationship between image and society. These transformational demands can only be met if photographers understand how photographs are taken, presented, discussed, used and documented.
As a Photography & Society student, you learn to master the entire distribution chain, to move seamlessly from concept to work and its presentation in different, often new, forms.
The contract will begin 1 September 2026, and initially for one academic year. The position is classified as pay scale 11 under the Collective Agreement for the Universities of Applied Sciences (cao hbo). The salary amounts to a maximum of € 6,677.44 gross per month for a full-time appointment, depending on education and work experience. Furthermore, we offer a holiday allowance of 8%, a fixed year-end bonus of 8.3%, holiday leave and provide good study and development opportunities and a travel reimbursement within the Netherlands.
Interested?
More information
For further information please contact Shadman Shahid, e-mail: s.shahid@kabk.nl
Apply
Please send your letter of application, CV and work sample, no later than 6 July, to werving@hdkdenhaag.nl, mentioning vacancy number 26-041.
The first round of interviews will take place on Monday 13 July in the morning.
This vacancy is open to both internal and external candidates simultaneously. Internal candidates will be given preference in case of equal suitability.
Within the University of the Arts, we are working to create a community in which diversity and inclusion are the basic principles. We want the uniqueness of each individual to be recognised and welcomed within the school. We therefore invite you to apply and are curious to know who you are.
