E-learning Visual Designer

Job description

About King’s Online 

King’s Online (KO) is part of the new School for Professional and Continuing Education (PACE), it was formed in 2015 and develops a range of fully online courses and programmes. You’ll be joining us at an exciting time as we seek to redefine online education and realise King’s strategic ambition of being the leading provider of online and blended learning by 2029. 

The role is primarily based at King’s Strand Campus, though you may be required to travel to other campuses on occasion. All team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish. 

About the role 

Our visual designers are a critical part of the team, taking the lead in creating visual elements such as graphics, illustrations, visualisation and animations based on storyboards produced by our learning designers. They are creative, collaborative and adaptable individuals. Together with the rest of our team, they build exceptional e-learning for our global audience of students.

They liaise with other members of the King’s Online team, as well as with senior academics and faculty staff, taking ownership over the visual elements of our work. With both technical and design expertise to back them up, they are able to advise on best practice in e-learning development to enhance our students’ learning experience. They also work proactively to find improvements to our workflows and product innovations.

Although supported by project managers and their line manager, they are ultimately responsible for managing their workload and balancing priorities across multiple projects.

We value the creativity of our visual designers and are eager to find new ways to streamline production and allow more opportunities to explore illustration, animation and more.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

• Collaborating in the design and development of e-learning content, both with other members of the King’s Online team and with faculty staff.
• Executing accessible designs that support learning based on provided written material.
• Building and importing written and visual content in a web-based environment
• Storyboarding and creating animations.
• Performing technical and design QA on the work of colleagues.
• Taking responsibility for the visual design of e-learning programmes and developing new and more efficient ways to achieve exceptional results.

About you

• You will have 2-3 years’ experience in design related role with relevant industry-specific knowledge and skills.
• You are creative, with a strong understanding of design principles and best practices and can share your specialist knowledge with others in a collaborative and creative way.
• You are proactive and self-motivated and you enjoy working in a collaborative environment. 
• You take ownership over your work and are able to make decisions independently.
• You can easily manage your own time and prioritise tasks.
• You are proactive and can clearly communicate visual designs to others.
• You can lead relevant workstreams as required. 
• You pride yourself on your strong attention to detail.
• You have excellent organisational skills. 
• You enjoy working as part of a diverse and supportive team. 
• You enjoy learning from and sharing with your  teammates.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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