Wiltshire RQ350988 Temporary Graphic Designer - Technical Design
A Graphic Designer is required to provide advice on a range of service specific initiatives (projects/workstreams/service improvements/service review etc) to enable the successful delivery of services. The postholder will be required to undertake research and analyse information to provide recommendations to both internal and external stakeholders
The key purpose of the role is to provide specialist graphic design services and includes the use of technical and creative expertise. The graphic artists will combine communication skills with creative design and technical expertise to produce all designed artwork/illustrative material for exhibitions, reports, brochures, books, documents and web page design for the promotion of all the services across Wiltshire Council and its partners.
Duties to include:
- Using technical design expertise to determine the best use of graphic software and techniques and available technology to produce illustrative material for the council
- Using creative expertise to advise on what is possible and producing proposals
- Interpreting the customers’ business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose
- Providing creative and technical advice to services and other customers on design options.
- Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time
- Delivering design projects to specification and on time
- Use technical expertise to operate, advise and use the equipment available
- Co-ordinating all aspects of the graphic design services from liaising with customers/services/colleagues; to scheduling the production of designs
- Responsibility for all council creative design hard ware and software
- Ensuring all artwork, illustrations and other design work adheres to the council’s brand and identity and is suitable for publication
- Keeping up to date with best practice and new developments in graphic design, and explore new techniques to ensure the council is abreast of current design trends
Pay Rate: £11.98 per hour PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
- We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
- We recommend that you consider sending us by email (see * below) a suitably ‘tailored’ CV for each role that you apply for, noting that job boards, sites and aggregators will generally store only one version of your CV, which can be a bit limiting...
“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications:
- Foundation degree, HND or degree in graphic design
- May be part qualified of a higher level relevant professional qualification
- ITQ 2 or equivalent ICT skills and abilities
- Knowledge & Skills:
- Experience of developing and presenting design storyboards and prototypes for services who require artwork and illustrative materials
- High level of relevant and practical experience acquired on the job
- An advanced understanding of relevant procedures and working practices
- Advanced knowledge of specialist function relevant to service area
- Experience in showing tact and diplomacy to deal with conflicting requirements or opinions and the ability to make decisions on the most appropriate action to reach an acceptable conclusion
- Ability to interpret and analyse statistical and numerical data, drawing conclusions from the data to inform decision making
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads and achieve deadlines
- Budget monitoring/financial processing at an appropriate level for the role
- Ability to produce business focussed, user friendly reports, policy and project documents where appropriate
- Experience:
- Knowledge and experience of desktop design software (Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Dreamweaver for example or other equivalent industry standards)
- Creativity and innovation is a feature of the job along with ability to interpret general guidelines to resolve issues
- Research and analysis of information to highlight and prioritise issues for further investigation, recommending solutions
- Work on own initiative to manage own activities and contribute to longer term activities/plans
- Research and resolve problems, provide advice and guidance on processes and procedures
- Participate in the research and development of systems, policies, procedures and/or standards within specialist area
- Devise, create, maintain and manipulate data management systems
- Analyse standard data and provide reports to customers, team members and managers with recommendations
- Carry out research for projects from a range of sources as directed by the line manager or other team members
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Technical Design
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 1-2 months.
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Whilst our ads will appear on partner sites such as Indeed, they are also listed - and will appear first - on our own website: Triumph Consultants Limited: www.tclrec.com
- If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via jobs@tclrec.com but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:
Job Ref: Wiltshire RQ350988
Temporary Graphic Designer - Technical Design
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