Senior Graphic Designer

Job Title:Senior Graphic Designer

Salary:  £42,000 - £53,000

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contract: Permanent

Cambridge Online Education are looking to welcome an experienced Senior Graphic Designer to support us in delivering on our mission to provide outstanding educational experiences and grow our portfolio and our brand by 2025. We're a dynamic, fast-growing team of creative minds in need of a self-starter to lead a global team of Graphic Designers, to ensure that we are creating world-class online courses, and to work closely with our internal marketing team to develop a catalogue of visual assets to support their campaigns.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

Visual elements are essentially for establishing and maintaining the highest brand standards for Cambridge Online Education across the globe – and ensuring that we adhere to the highest possible quality across our online courses. A Senior Graphic Designer is required to work closely with the team to develop and deliver a strong and consistent brand identity across our products. Responsibilities will include:

• Expand the Cambridge Online Education brand and create clear style guides and brand assets.
• Provide experience-based insights into future digital content strategies and trends including for photography, video, audio, and interactive graphics.
• Work closely with marketing team to develop high-quality assets to use in marketing materials, which serve to strengthen and grow our brand.
• Responsible for creating and implementing high standards and efficient processes for all visual design for of our online short courses and associated media assets.
• Support QA activities, promoting best practices and contributing to continuous improvement.
• Design a range of documentation to support internal communication and for marketing purposes.
• Deliver accessible and inclusive visual designs which promote learning based on written design briefs.
• Work collaboratively on the creation of instructional content, with members of the Design & Development team as well as academic SMEs.

About you

You have a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Interface Design, Fine Art/Design, Advertising, Marketing, or a degree in any other related field - work experience equal to this educational requirement is also acceptable for the position. You will have at least 5 years' experience in the field of Graphic Design or any related field.  You will also have proven experience working on projects that require extensive use of typography and graphic design skills, and a successful track record in designing front-end product visual or interface designs.

You're a people person; great with language and flexing your communication styles to suit different channels, people and circumstances, and take pride in forging strong working relationships with peers and clients.  

And in an ideal world, you have experience working in the online learning and/or higher education sector, understand the creative process and know how to motivate, lead and inspire creative individuals.  

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that's linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help give you the resources and training you'll need to be bold and take ownership of what you do. 

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being  26th March 23, interviews are scheduled to take place during the campaign, if during this time the successful person is offered the position this advert will close early. Don't delay in applying!  

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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