Junior Digital Designer

Nest Pensions; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pension scheme in London is seeking a Junior Digital Designer to create engaging content for digital platforms. This hands-on role offers the opportunity to learn from experienced teams and provides a flexible hybrid working environment. Ideal candidates will have design skills and a portfolio showcasing their work, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively. This position is great for those starting their careers in digital design.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of design work is necessary.
• Creative mindset to support various digital design areas.
• Eagerness to learn and develop skills in digital design.

Responsibilities

• Create content for social media and digital platforms.
• Support the wider digital design process.
• Collaborate with Creative Partners and Social Media team.

Skills

Design skills using graphic design software

Experience of working on social media design or video

Ability to present ideas using moodboards

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Maxon Cinema 4D

Job description

Overview

Role Overview: This is a great first role for someone starting their career in digital design. You might have recently finished a design degree, an apprenticeship, or have similar skills in digital and design. As a Junior Digital Designer, you’ll work closely with our Creative Partners and Social Media team to create content for social media, websites, and other digital platforms. You’ll also help support the wider digital design process. You’ll be guided by our supportive and experienced teams, giving you the chance to learn, grow, and play an important role in bringing Nest’s creative vision to life. This is a hands-on role where you’ll use a variety of tools, including Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and Maxon Cinema 4D. You’ll get the chance to work on different areas of digital design, motion graphics, video, and content creation—building a strong foundation for your career.

Minimum criteria for this role

• Design skills using graphic design software
• Portfolio of design work
• Ability to present ideas using moodboards or other means
• Experience of working on social media design or video

Don’t worry if you think you don’t have all the key skills; it might be worth taking a few minutes to apply as we’re good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working – everyone’s personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we’ve introduced different ways of working (subject to role requirements):

• Hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
• Reduce or vary working hours
• Reduce or vary the days worked
• Work compressed hours
• Job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Nest Experience directorate ensures customers have a positive, safe, and simple experience with Nest. We do this by:

• Setting clear strategies for how we support customers
• Creating services and benefits that meet customer needs
• Making sure the Nest brand is clear and trusted
• Designing easy, consistent experiences across all channels
• Working with our partner TCS to keep our services secure and our customers’ data and assets safe

Organisational Overview: Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country. Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio-economic background. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation. Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [e-mail].