Creative Designer – 12 Month FTC

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Creative Designer - 12 Month FTC
Location:
London
Department:
News Studios
Salary Details:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
03 Jun 2024
Job Description
Do you want to be part of a studio that's 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 hands-on 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: You will 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
Attributes Required
* Possesses strong knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides
* Agility in terms of design style and approach based on different client/project needs
* 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 print-ready files
* Works efficiently in a fast-paced environment
* Have a desire to learn about digital and social publishing platforms, including video
Apply along with your portfolio attached with your CV.
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 market-leading 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 world-famous 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 (COMPANY NAME).
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 can't 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 championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks;Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women's Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing 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 generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
* A generous bonus scheme of 40% of annual salary, paid quarterly dependent if targets are met
* 25 daysholidayand up to 4volunteeringdays per year;
* Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks;
* Wide range oftrainingavailable, 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 anyreasonable adjustmentsduring 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