Graphic Design Learning Specialist - LEDstudio

Summary:

About VCU Continuing and Professional Education and LEDstudio

VCU Continuing and Professional Education in partnership with the colleges and schools at Virginia Commonwealth University provides and supports quality continuing and professional education and skills training for individual local regional and national impact. VCU Continuing and Professional Education harnesses the power of VCU including more than 3300 instructional faculty and adjunct instructors an academic medical center and long-standing community relationships to create the best learning opportunities available to nontraditional adult learners.

VCU LEDstudio is a leader in providing quality higher education using a number of delivery methods including fully online and hybrid. The unit broadly supports faculty and academic units in their efforts to leverage technology to optimize student learning and provides strategic leadership in developing expanding and enhancing VCUs online learning programs and energizing the assessment and continuous quality improvement of current and new technology-mediated courses and programs.

The position is a Graphic Design Learning Specialist (Communications Specialist CM) is part of the VCU LEDstudio media team that serves the needs of faculty teaching online and hybrid courses with the goal of student success. As part of that team the graphic design learning specialist creates engaging visuals that convey display and communicate course content and enhance the online learning experience. The graphic design learning specialist must be comfortable creating backgrounds transitions lower thirds thumbnails text components and other media assets/graphic elements for video and visual needs using Adobe Creative Cloud.

The faculty being served are from departments across collaboration with instructional designers the media team creates the media needed as part of the overall course design. The media needed may be in the form of educational videos or may be graphic assets as part of interactive elements. The graphic design learning specialist works on translating abstract ideas and complex concepts into graphics.

This role is collaborative in nature and requires a level of comfort working with subject matter experts from a variety of disciplines instructional designers with clear pedagogical directives and media specialist colleagues.

The graphic design learning specialist must have the artistic sensibilities to create for a college student audience while also meeting departmental needs for VCU and VCU Continuing and Professional Education and LEDstudio branded materials. Graphic design assignments are often needed for improving presentations and creating templates in Google Slides. Graphic design assignments may be for website or social media channel needs for public-facing projects ensuring compliance with web accessibility and design standards.

Other duties as assigned in response to the units needs.

This position requires on-campus and off-campus presence based on business needs. There is the opportunity for telework at the supervisors discretion. The telework nature of this position is subject to change based on the universitys needs and strategic direction.

AI should not be used for any part of the application submission or process

Minimum Hiring Standards

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design
Strong skills with multimedia content integration
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop Illustrator)
Experience in creating motion graphics
Experience in Google Suite Slack Smartsheet or similar collaboration tools
Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect professionalism and civility with a population of faculty staff and students from various backgrounds and experiences or a commitment to do so as a member of the VCU community
Excellent interpersonal verbal written and teamwork skills
Proven time management skills
Must have a pleasant positive professional attitude and adhere to the confidentiality of records and information and must abide by the VCU Code of Conduct
Proven ability to work as a contributing and collegial member of a team and to communicate proactively within the team environment with supervisors and with the leadership team
Dependability reliability and creativity
Demonstrated ability to organize prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a diverse fast-paced environment within deadlines
Must be able to work independently and make sound recommendations and decisions to resolve problems and make improvements

Preferred Hiring Standards

Experience working in higher education and/or instructional media

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority