Brand and Design Specialist (Temporary)

Parliament; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Senedd as a Brand and Design Specialist and play a pivotal role in the visual transition to the Seventh Senedd. This position involves creating compelling designs for various campaigns, ensuring brand consistency, and collaborating across teams to enhance communications. If you're creative with attention to detail, this is your chance to shape how the Senedd is perceived across Wales.

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role

Environment with flexible working options

Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

Civil Service pension with employer contribution of 28.97%

Qualifications

• Experience in a brand or communications environment preferred.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to work flexibly in a busy environment and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain design assets such as graphics and templates.
• Update internal templates for Word and PowerPoint.
• Ensure brand consistency across all platforms.

Skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Creativity

Education

Experience with Adobe packages, specifically InDesign

Advanced user of Microsoft packages, specifically Word and PowerPoint

Job description

Cardiff

Job Summary

At the Senedd, our goal is to place citizens at the heart of everything we do – and our visual identity is a key part of how we connect with them. As a Brand and Design Specialist, you’ll be at the creative forefront of our Communications Service, helping to shape how the Senedd is seen and understood by people across Wales.

With less than a year to go until the next Senedd election, this is a unique opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment in Welsh democracy. You’ll help lead the visual transition from the Sixth to the Seventh Senedd, and play a part in delivering the Senedd 2026 campaign.

From bold campaign visuals and engaging public-facing materials, to polished internal templates and reports, your work will span all of our brand identities, including: Core (our corporate brand), People of Wales (our public-facing brand) and Senedd 2026 (our election campaign brand). You’ll collaborate with teams across the organisation, offering expert design advice and ensuring everything we produce is visually compelling, on-brand and accessible.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, supportive team that values creativity, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset. Reporting to the Brand and Design Manager, you’ll bring fresh ideas, a sharp eye for detail and a flair for visual storytelling.

Job Description

Key tasks

You will be supported by the Brand and Design Manager to:

• Create and maintain design assets like graphics, templates and promotional materials – including for the Senedd 2026 campaign.
• Update and improve templates for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Adobe InDesign.
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide design solutions that communicate the Senedd’s messages and values.
• Ensure brand consistency across all digital and print platforms by following the Senedd’s brand guidelines.
• Update internal intranet pages with advice and brand assets.
• Help check and produce Senedd 2026 campaign assets.
• Oversee the Senedd 2026 campaign asset library.
• Support the team through the transition period between the Sixth and Seventh Senedd.
• Provide excellent customer service to Senedd Commission staff and external partners.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to bring new ideas to the team.
  
  

Key tasks

You will be supported by the Brand and Design Manager to:

• Create and maintain design assets like graphics, templates and promotional materials – including for the Senedd 2026 campaign.
• Update and improve templates for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Adobe InDesign.
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide design solutions that communicate the Senedd’s messages and values.
• Ensure brand consistency across all digital and print platforms by following the Senedd’s brand guidelines.
• Update internal intranet pages with advice and brand assets.
• Help check and produce Senedd 2026 campaign assets.
• Oversee the Senedd 2026 campaign asset library.
• Support the team through the transition period between the Sixth and Seventh Senedd.
• Provide excellent customer service to Senedd Commission staff and external partners.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to bring new ideas to the team.
  
  

Person specification

Job Specific Criteria

• Experience of working flexibly and pro-actively in a very busy environment and to tight timescales;
• Experience with design, preferably within a branding or communications environment, using Adobe packages, specifically InDesign.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics.
• Advanced user of Microsoft packages, specifically Word and PowerPoint. to both use and improve document templates.
  
  

Welsh Language Criteria

The language skills for this post have been assessed as follows:

• Listening: Understand all spoken Welsh, including complex discussions (Level 4)
• Speaking: Able to speak and engage in discussion at length, confidently and without prompting. (Level 4)
• Reading: Understand most job-related routine and non-routine text when standard language is used (Level 3)
• Writing: Able to write job-related routine and non-routine text (Level 3)
  
  

Alongside your salary of £30,870, Welsh Parliament contributes £8,943 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  
  

Selection process details

Candidates are required to complete an application form through our recruitment portal addressing the job specific and desirable criteria.

Closing Date for applications: 23:59 9 July 2025

Your application must be submitted before midnight on the closing date.

You will be updated on your progress via the email address you first register with. Please check your Junk Mail and Spam folders to make sure you don’t miss any future correspondence.

Interviews will be held in-person in Ty Hywel, Cardiff Bay on: 6 and 7 August 2025

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Robert Draper-Orr
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

https://senedd.wales/commission/work-for-the-senedd-commission/