Graphic & Digital Designer

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Detail information about job Graphic & Digital Designer. Terms and conditions vacancy

We work on a variety of exciting new projects with great local businesses and are passionate about helping them to grow and achieve their goals. 

This is a full time role working with a tight knit team and flexible working conditions.

Personal qualities:

• You have a passion for creating beautiful designs – both print and digital – that clearly communicate the required message
• You can take a design brief and transform it into something fresh yet on-brand, and can adapt your design based on client and manager feedback
• You can complete high quality work to deadline, and juggle multiple deadlines and projects at a time
• You know (and can explain to clients) the difference between web hosting, domain registration, and website login details
• You know when to use RGB and when to use CMYK
• You understand image resolution and the requirements for getting a great result in print
• You can manage your time and work autonomously, as well as being part of a tight knit team

Necessary skills:

• 4+ years' experience across both print and digital design
• A qualification in graphic design, visual communication, or similar
• High level Adobe Creative Suite skills – primarily Indesign, Illustrator & Photoshop
• Web design experience – most of our client’s websites are built using WordPress software (wordpress.org not wordpress.com), so the ability to maintain existing websites and create new ones using the WordPress CMS is a must
• Knowledge of CSS and HTML to customise WordPress themes, and experience with using various WordPress plugins to add more functionality to websites
• Prepress knowledge – creating print ready artwork, preflighting, proofing, colour management, etc
• Photography – knowing your way around a DSLR on manual (so choosing the correct lens, shutter speed, aperture and ISO, and flash vs no flash) for a variety of situations including events, staff headshots, interiors and exteriors of buildings, etc and high level photo editing skills
• An eye for good design, typography and creating a balanced page (whether print or digital), plus a proven ability to proofread your work
• Ability to design and create beautiful interactive PDF forms (adding form elements in InDesign and completing the final form in Acrobat)
• An understanding of how to make Powerpoints and Word documents look well-designed, so they can be edited by people who don’t have Creative Suite 
• Knowledge of how to backup and update websites, and restore from a backup if something goes wrong

Any of the following would be highly regarded:

• Video shooting and editing (e.g. shooting on a DSLR, using a Rode lavalier microphone, and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro or similar) highly desirable
• Shooting and editing HDR images 
• Experience with getting websites online or migrating from one host to another (uploading via FileZilla or similar, setting up and connecting MySQL databases, updating DNS settings to point domains, etc)
• Drone photography
• Experience with the Hubspot CMS (which they refer to as a COS just to be confusing)
• Understanding of current, ever-changing SEO trends and best practice

If you meet this criteria then please email your cover letter, resume and portfolio of relevant work (PDF or web link) to:

Frances Burns: [email protected]