HYBRID / LONDON (1 - 2 days/week in the office)
SALARY: £30,000 - 35,000

Times Higher Education is the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world. As the company behind the world’s most influential university ranking, and with almost five decades of experience as a source of analysis and insight on higher education, we have unparalleled expertise on the trends underpinning university performance globally. Our data and benchmarking tools are used by many of the world’s most prestigious universities to help them achieve their strategic goals and our events series act as the home of higher education thought leadership around the world.

We are hiring a Designer to help with the design and delivery of a range of digital and print projects of all sizes across the Times Higher Education business. You will employ your obvious enthusiasm; design skill and creative insight to help develop high quality design solutions that support both internal and external goals.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Head of Design and other design team members to meet the wider THE businesses design needs.
• Responsible for design production across a wide range of outputs e.g. logo designs; visual brand concepts; brand guidelines work; digital assets; print advertisements; video development; PPT decks; event stands; wireframing for product micro sites on the Shorthand and Cleverstory platforms; digital and print brochures; consultancy reports; infographics; email designs etc.
• Managing your creative projects from initial brief to design approval, either independently or with support from the wider/senior design team, planning and prioritising tasks as necessary.
• To ensure creative integrity and quality is maintained across all outputs, ensuring best practice is applied throughout the creative production process.
• To work with brand & style guidelines – helping to develop these, additional brand toolkits and templates when required.
• To ensure the audience experience is a key factor when considering all design responses, solutions and touchpoints.
• To represent design at internal and, sometimes, external project meetings, with the ability to successfully present ideas to team members; designers (plus suppliers and internal/external stakeholders).

Person Specification

• You will possess a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude and be a team player.
• You have an excellent eye for detail and are always looking to produce high-quality creative work.
• You can work effectively independently, or when collaborating with wider teams.
• You have a good awareness of the latest technologies and design trends, with a view to how these may be harnessed to evolve your creative solutions.
• You are keen to learn new techniques and work across new platforms when required; to explore and push your creative boundaries.
• You are adaptable, responding well to the challenges working for a fast-paced, global business can sometimes provide.
• You will have experience of and work well under pressure of deadlines, retaining a high level of creativity and output quality.

Skills and experience:

• Educated to degree level, or similar, in graphic design or a related subject and possess an obvious passion for design and communication.
• Commercial experience in a relevant cross-channel, multi-platform design role, working on brand and style guidelines, campaign work, designing creative assests.
• A great eye for detail and excellent design, layout and typography skills (applied across all channels).
• Ability to work quickly, offering multiple solutions to a design brief.
• The ability to plan your work effectively, while working across a number of projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate and rationalise your vision to inhouse teams (including senior management) and external partners, when required.
• A very good understanding and knowledge of the art-working process for all channels (digital and print), with previous experience working on multi-channel, multi-platform campaigns.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign; Illustrator; Photoshop) and good working knowledge of Canva.
• Experience designing for longform content platforms Shorthand and Cleverstory would also be a benefit.
• A good working knowledge of After Effects would be ideal, as would the ability to create/edit short videos for web and social platforms.
• A very good understanding of designing for Microsoft products (PowerPoint and Word).
• Working knowledge of HTML and website CMS and how to best design within their frameworks would be a distinct advantage.
• Previous experience of working across content for an international audience, with multiple language translations would also be beneficial.

PLEASE NOTE: To be considered, please submit a PDF of 3 of your latest, most relevant work.

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