Graphic Designer

Nelson and Colne College; Nelson; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Enhanced sick pay

Health and wellbeing benefits

Free on-site parking

Job summary

East Lancashire Learning Group is seeking a talented designer to join the Marketing & Communications team. You will influence thousands of learners and partners by creating print and digital materials, prospectuses and campaigns that bring our vision to life across campaigns, social media and campus environments.

You will work closely with colleagues across the Group, supporting photoshoots, content creation and Open events, with travel to multiple sites and a focus on impactful storytelling

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a relevant field.
• In‑house or agency graphic design experience with a broad portfolio of print and online work.
• Excellent technical skills with Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign.
• Broad experience formatting artwork for print across formats and specs.
• Experience building relationships and working effectively within a team.

Responsibilities

• Act as a creative brand champion, ensuring high‑quality artwork for print and online materials in line with brand guidelines.
• Provide design solutions for campaigns from concept through to final production.
• Be willing to learn editing/producing video content, including basic editing, animation, and subtitles.
• Lead development of visual branding across college campuses.
• Lead projects such as image stock development to build a bank of brand assets for diverse audiences.

Skills

Creativity

Project management

Commercial awareness

Proactive

Strategic thinking

Teamwork

Education

Degree level qualification

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

InDesign

Job description

Salary: Up to £29,663.80 per annum, depending on experience

Working Weeks: 52 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Midnight, Sunday 8 November 2026

Interview Date: Tuesday 18 November 2026

‘Together, Let’s Be Extraordinary’

Our Organisation

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.

Part of East Lancashire Learning Group, Lancashire Adult Learning (LAL) provide learning opportunities for all adults across the region. LAL currently offers an extensive range of subjects to learners, with over 2000 courses delivered through more than 300 venues across Lancashire. We engage over 10,000 learners, which makes us one of the UK’s largest Adult Community Learning Providers

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.

What You'll Bring:

• 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 but will be required to travel across sites.

What You Will Be Doing:

• 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.

What We Are Looking For:

• 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.

What We Offer in Return:

• Access to a workplace pension scheme – with generous employer contributions
• Generous annual leave allowance including a two‑week closure over the Christmas period
• Enhanced occupational sick pay scheme and access to family friendly policies and benefits
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits and support
• Free on‑site parking on all College sites

Please visit our ‘working for us’ section of our website for a full list of our benefits

http://www.eastlancslearning.ac.uk/

Further Questions?

Please contact our friendly HR Team [e-mail]

*Please note we only accept applications submitted via our website*

All of our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check due to working with vulnerable adults and children. Should you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch with the HR team.

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