Description:
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Create on-brand visual designs for our campaigns and communications to a high standard
- Collaborate with other team members to deliver large and high-profile projects
- Be a brand guardian for the Council, mastering the guidance and providing advice and support to colleagues, stakeholders, and partners on how to use the brand
- Contribute to the creative stages of campaign planning making recommendations based on knowledge and understandings of current trends and best practice
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council to keep projects on track and deliver projects as per the brief
- Present design work at various stages to stakeholders for review and final approval
- Bring innovative ideas and creativity to the team
What we are looking for:
- Excellent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite and a dedication to continue to grow your knowledge and skills
- Experience in design and branding projects, design implementation, print and digital
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Portfolio full of campaigns, imaginative brands and a strong range of work that shows your skill and creativity as a designer
- Passion for creativity and desire to make a difference through your experience and knowledge
- Strong time-management, team-working and attention to detail
- Desirable, but not essential:
- Motion Design skills and Video editing skills: our creative team has both a full time Motion Graphic Designer and a Filmographer, so any talent in those areas would be desirable
- A knowledge of councils/local government