Creative Content Officer - Campus Services - 106573 - Grade 5

University of Birmingham; Park Central; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Park Central is seeking a creative designer to develop engaging marketing materials. The role involves managing design projects, collaborating with teams, and producing visual content through photography and videography. Ideal candidates will possess graphic design skills, proficiency in Adobe tools, and experience in digital design. This opportunity promotes equality and diversity within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable graphic design skills, with a strong portfolio.
• Experience of digital design for websites and emails is desirable.
• Understanding of digital best practice and UX/UI design is desirable.
• Hands-on experience with professional photography equipment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design projects from concept to completion.
• Manage proposals from typesetting through to design and production.
• Collaborate with customers to understand the design message.

Skills

Graphic design skills

Creativity

Attention to detail

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud

Education

Degree level education (desirable)

GCSE Maths and English grade C/4 minimum

Tools

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Aftereffects

Dreamweaver

Premiere Pro

Acrobat

Job description

You will produce high‑quality, engaging design concepts for UoB Sport marketing materials such as brochures, posters, menus, banners, adverts, emails, websites, infographics and animations. You will also be responsible for capturing and producing compelling visual content through photography and videography, and you may be invited to work across the department or wider University.

Responsibilities

• Participating in various design projects from concept to completion, ensuring brand guidelines are adhered to while supporting the marketing team throughout campaign planning and execution.
• Managing proposals from typesetting through to design, print and production.
• Collaborating with customers to understand and determine the design message.
• Developing concepts, graphics and layouts for various projects designed to inspire, inform and captivate the target audience.
• Creating drafts and producing engaging and attractive design solutions for review, using a variety of techniques.
• Reviewing final layouts for errors, making improvements if required.
• Leading photography and videography for the department, capturing content on members and facilities.
• Supporting the Social Media and Communications Officer to create long‑form video content by capturing footage and video‑editing for use across a range of channels.
• Overseeing and maintaining the photo library.
• Acting as the main point of contact for all printing jobs, ensuring proactive communication with the customer.
• Keeping up to date in design developments, both print and online.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues to receive and act on creative feedback.
• Supporting equality and value diversity, including:
  • (a) Challenging bias, prejudice and intolerance if appropriate or bringing it to the attention of a manager;
  • (b) Moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.

You will work under the supervision of the Senior Designer but will be expected to make decisions, prioritise work, solve issues and deliver the outputs required.

Internal and External Relationships

You will be a member of the marketing team, liaising internally and externally with copywriters, account executives, web developers, marketing specialists and printers.

Qualifications and Experience

• A good standard of literacy and numeracy, evidenced by GCSE Maths and English grade C/4 minimum or equivalent level 2 qualification.
• Educated to degree level is desirable.
• Demonstrable graphic design skills, with a strong portfolio.
• Experience of digital design for websites and emails is desirable.
• Highly creative with a sharp sense of design, layout and conceptual thinking.
• Strong attention to detail, ensuring work is completed to the highest standard.
• Proficient in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Aftereffects, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, Acrobat and Presentation (Adobe Creative Cloud).
• Understanding of and demonstrable familiarity with digital best practice and UX/UI design is desirable.
• Good working knowledge of HTML and CSS is desirable.
• Ability to calculate and work within tight time scales and under pressure.
• Hands‑on experience with professional photography equipment, including lighting and camera’s.
• Keen interest in the latest design trends.
• Self‑motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Understanding of what equality and diversity is and why it is important, with an ability to identify equality and diversity issues and either address these or bring them to the attention of a manager.

Role Framework

• You will have no direct financial or staff management responsibility. The role is focused on the delivery of a quality service to customers.
• You will be required to manage and prioritise a varied workload to deliver within required timeframes. There is also a strong need to maintain an awareness of activity across the team, department and wider University.
• You will demonstrate strong problem‑solving and decision‑making skills.

Equality and Diversity

We support equality and value diversity, challenging bias and prejudice, and moderating behaviours to avoid discriminatory impact.