Senior Designer - Full time, fixed term (12 months)

The Marketing & Communications department at Edinburgh Napier University prides itself on providing innovative and expert marketing and communications advice and services to all of our stakeholders.

Our main objective is to support the recruitment and conversion of prospective students by delivering effective content marketing, online and offline promotion and advertising, design and communications.

We strive to help drive the internal and external academic reputation of the University through promoting its strengths in research and teaching.

As such, we are currently recruiting a Senior Designer to cover a maternity leave, taking responsibility for delivering engaging creative ideas and collateral for marketing campaigns which support student recruitment, and design for print projects.

The Role:

With your significant experience of the hands-on creative experience, you will be in a prime position to work directly with the Creative Manager as brand guardian, maintaining consistency of our visual brand and creative development of the visual language of the University.

You will have the important responsibility for managing the design and production process for prospectuses and other University publications, supporting the Creative Manager on student recruitment marketing collateral and other creative marketing and communications design projects, including on-campus events, digital campaigns, and printed literature, so your in-depth knowledge of producing interactive/creative projects across all digital media and print will certainly be well utilised.

You will have a dedicated team of graphic and digital designers to help you achieve this, so you’ll also get to use your experience of leading a creative team to achieve all project objectives, as well as use your understanding of the role of testing, analytics and evaluating content to deliver maximum impact with any given campaign.

We expect that you will have very high standards when it comes to content, so you will also have the opportunity to take responsibility for ensuring that all of our marketing collateral is brought to life through exemplary design, and creative and engaging solutions which contribute to student recruitment user journeys and KPIs.

We are looking for someone that can step in and temporarily lead the team by coaching, guiding, inspiring and demonstrating passion and enthusiasm, so if this is you, we would love to hear from you.

For a full role profile and comprehensive list of duties, please click here.

What we will need from you:

• Relevant degree or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Significant experience of the hands-on creative experience within a design or advertising agency, or an in-house design team in a client/stakeholder-facing role with a focus on customer service
• Experience of maintaining and developing brand guidelines
• Demonstrable experience of leading a creative team
• Excellent portfolio and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
• A good working knowledge of online project management platforms (eg Monday.com)
• Experience of using online DAM systems

Benefits:

Join us and you will find that we offer support and recognition wherever due, as well as fantastic benefits such as an attractive pension with employer contributions of 20.8% and a minimum of 36 days holiday.

For more information about our wide range of benefits, click here.

Additional information:

Fixed term: 12 months

Closing date: 11:59pm on 01/02/2023

Interviews: 12/02/2023

When applying, please include a link to an online portfolio – or attach a document to your application

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