Creative Designer - 12 Month FTC
Creative Designer - 12 Month FTC
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Job Description
Do you want to be part of a studio thats working on content and pitches for some of the most exciting and diverse brands on the market Are you happy to roll up your sleeves and get designing creative assets across digital and print
We are looking for a handson Creative Designer at the branded content studio for News UK which will cover work across all of our titles.
The Team: The people that make up the team come from an array of creative backgrounds and we are looking for you to bring your uniqueness to the team. You would be reporting to the Art Director but also working with the rest of the design team as well as creative leads and project managers.
Your role: Youwill work across a number of different sectors and a variety of project types at Studio so creative flexibility with a digital focus is a must. You must be comfortable working for tech and banking giants to lifestyle brands to even the smaller start up brands with their own signature visual style.
Day to day:
Preparing mocks and pitch decks for a number of different sectors and project types.
Work with brand guidelines set by the Art Director
Understand project briefs and liaise with internal key stakeholders and clients alike.
Prepare and upload artwork for press
editorial design for both print and digital
SKILLS REQUIRED
A strong grasp of InDesign Illustrator Photoshop and PowerPoint
Strong typography layout and technical skills
Experience in commissioning illustrators
Able to voice and present ideas and creative concepts to peers and clients
Understanding of the editorial workflow and production processes including colour management and the making of printready files
Be a brilliant creative thinker with the ability to push beyond expected standards
Be open to feedback and willing to make changes to their own designs
Have a desire to learn about digital and social publishing platforms
Apply along with your portfolio
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland our newsbrands include The Times The Sunday Times The Sun The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT Times Radio talkRADIO and Virgin Radio and we have marketleading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK delivering a schedule of news current affairs entertainment and sport. Our worldfamous brands provide news analysis opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print audio and video events and experiences our brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We cant promise to offer exactly what you want but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering preexisting conditions discounted gym memberships ClassPass at Home weekly virtual HIIT yoga and run club classes and a Bikes for Work scheme as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
A generous bonus scheme of 40% of annual salary paid quarterly dependent if targets are met
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing so feel free to let us know at any stage whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Contract
