Digital Designer

HM TREASURY; Darlington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Treasury is seeking a confident Graphic Designer to join the Digital Communications team. The role involves creating engaging digital content to effectively communicate important work, collaborating with various departments, and employing strong design principles to enhance Treasury's online presence. The position offers various benefits, including generous leave and flexible working patterns.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years)

Flexible working patterns

Generous parental leave packages

Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%

Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme

Qualifications

• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
• Experience designing content for various social media platforms.
• Strong understanding of accessibility in design.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce creative digital content for social media.
• Collaborate on major fiscal events, creating branded visual materials.
• Apply strong design principles including layout, composition, and accessibility.

Skills

Creativity

Visual Communication

Design Principles

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Are you a confident, talented Graphic Designer with proven experience creating graphic content that fosters emotional connections with audiences through effective visual storytelling ? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Ministerial and Communications Group sits at the heart of the Treasury. If you are interested in the inner workings of the Government, meeting Ministers, Senior Officials and liaising with the Press then this could be the place for you! We are a friendly and inclusive Group working on some of the most exciting issues of the day, bringing together work from across the rest of the department and engaging closely with partners across Whitehall and beyond.

We provide support to Ministers, through Ministerial offices. We act as Treasury's external face, through the Press Office and Communications team. We are responsible for managing the department, through our support for the Permanent Secretary, the Second Permanent Secretaries, the Treasury Board, and the Executive Management Board (EMB), and our ownership of Treasury governance structures. The Group is led by the Permanent Secretary.

Our friendly and hardworking Digital Communications team of 10 leads the Treasury’s online presence across GOV.UK and social media channels. We work closely with our colleagues across External Affairs, Press Office, Internal Communications, Strategy, Events and Visits. We strive to create compelling and creative online content to engage the public on the important work of HM Treasury.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Design and produce creative digital content, including graphics and animations for social media, covering both day-to-day content and longer-form campaigns.
• Work closely with other departments on major fiscal events such as Budgets, creating branded visual materials.
• Apply strong design principles including layout, composition, accessibility, and typography across all Treasury digital content.
• Create in-house design work ranging from branding for press conferences to mixed media visuals for national campaigns.
• Design occasional content for print, including event materials and branding.
• Collaborate with our senior producer, video and photography leads to film short pieces to camera as required.
• Create animations and animated elements in After Effects to enhance video content and explain complex policy.
• Apply understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations in design contexts
• Work with our Head of Channels to plan and create optimised content for Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Engage with social media and design trends to find innovative ways to reach and engage audiences.

About You

You will:

• Convey complicated concepts simply and clearly visually, with demonstrated experience designing with accessibility in mind.
• Pitch innovative content ideas.
• Have adaptability to experiment with emerging design trends while maintaining brand consistency and Treasury values.
• Have proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
• Have a strong creative flair and understanding of design principles.
• Experience creating content optimised for different social media platforms.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at [e-mail].