Graphic Designer

East Lancashire Learning Group; Nelson; Sur place; GBP 28 000 - 36 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Generous annual leave

Workplace pension scheme

Enhanced occupational sick pay

Health and wellbeing benefits

Staff recognition scheme

Free on-site parking

Résumé du poste

East Lancashire Learning Group is seeking a talented designer to join our ambitious Marketing & Communications team. You will shape our visual identity across print, digital and campus environments, delivering high quality artwork that brings brand guidelines to life.

You'll lead campaigns from concept to production, collaborate across campuses, and help tell stories that engage learners, employers and communities through prospectuses, social assets, video and signage.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in in-house or agency graphic design with print and digital work.
• Strong portfolio across print and online materials.
• Experience delivering brand-aligned artwork to tight deadlines.

Responsabilités

• Act as a creative brand champion across print and online outputs.
• Provide design solutions for campaigns from concept to production.
• Learn and deliver video editing and subtitles when required.
• Develop and maintain the college's visual branding across campuses.

Connaissances

Adobe Creative Suite

InDesign

Graphic design

Video editing

Campaign design

Project management

Team collaboration

Formation

Degree in a relevant field

Outils

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Video editing software

Description du poste

• Act as a creative brand champion, ensuring effective, high quality and timely production of artwork for a wide range of print and online materials, from large scale publications to social assets, web banners to newsletters, signage, and more, in line with brand guidelines.
• Provide effective and creative design solutions for campaign activity in line with the Marketing department's briefs and priorities, from concept through to final production.
• Be able/willing to learn editing, producing and delivering video creative that may include video editing, animations, and subtitles.
• Play a key role in the development of our visual branding across the college campuses.
• Take a lead role in key projects such as image stock development to ensure a bank of high quality 'approved' brand assets for various audience groups, that help to showcase the brand identity and our wide-ranging audience demographics, for flexible use by the team and in materials.
  Creativity, enthusiasm and plenty of fresh ideas.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to identify opportunities that drive growth, engagement and participation.
• A proactive approach and a passion for finding new opportunities and delivering results.
• The ability to combine strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery.
• A genuine desire to make a positive impact on learners, communities and organisational success.
• The drive to work towards ambitious targets and demonstrate the impact of marketing activity.
• You’ll be part of an ambitious, forward-thinking marketing team, Gold Medal winners in the Large Team of the Year category at the prestigious FE First Awards 2026. This is a chance to influence campaigns, shape engagement activity, work with diverse audiences and see the tangible impact of your work every day. If you're full of ideas, commercially aware, love building relationships and want a role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you. The successful candidate will be primarily based at Lancashire Adult Learning in Brierfield but will be required to travel across sites.,
• Degree Level Qualification in a relevant field.
• In-house or agency graphic design experience, with a broad portfolio of evidence to include print and online examples
• Excellent technical skills including extensive experience of using Adobe Creative Suite (specifically InDesign)
• Broad experience formatting artwork for print across various formats/specifications
• Experience of building effective relationships and working as part of a team.
  This role is advertised by ELLG Professional Services. Part of East Lancashire Learning Group, ELLG Professional Services provides expert business support services to the wider Group.
• East Lancashire Learning Group is made up of three merged colleges: Nelson and Colne College, Accrington and Rossendale College and Lancashire Adult Learning. The Group is a beacon for teaching and learning excellence. It is an innovative provider; a research hub for teaching and learning, with a clear ambition to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for learners. The Exciting Role Are you a talented designer looking for a role where your creativity can make a genuine difference to people's lives? At East Lancashire Learning Group, you'll be much more than a designer creating artwork behind the scenes. You'll be part of an ambitious, supportive and highly creative Marketing & Communications team, helping to shape how thousands of prospective learners, students, employers and community partners experience our colleges every year. From developing inspiring prospectuses to being the design force behind recruitment campaigns, you'll play a key role in bringing our vision to life across print, digital, social media, video and campus environments. Every project offers the opportunity to influence perceptions, tell compelling stories and showcase the incredible achievements of our learners and staff. This is also a role for someone who enjoys people as much as pixels. You'll regularly work alongside colleagues from across the Group, contribute creative ideas, support photoshoots and content creation, and play an active part in Open Events, recruitment events and college activities where you'll meet and engage directly with learners and prospective students. These face-to-face interactions help ensure our creative work authentically reflects the people and communities we serve. We're looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys sharing ideas, embraces new creative challenges and wants to contribute to something bigger than a brand. If you're passionate about design, excited by variety, and motivated by the opportunity to inspire future generations, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help tell the stories that shape futures.
• Generous annual leave allowance, plus Bank Holidays and closure days, and including a two-week closure over the Christmas period.
• Access to a workplace pension scheme - with generous employer contributions
• Enhanced occupational sick pay scheme and access to family friendly policies and benefits
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits and support
• Staff recognition scheme, including long service awards
• Free on-site parking on all College sites