Production Designer

International Baccalaureate; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% employer pension contribution from

Annual salary review

25 Days annual leave

10 Days work from anywhere leave

Flexi Hours core hours

Life assurance 4x annual salary

Paid volunteering leave

Flexible benefits allowance 1.5%

Health and wellness schemes

Disability Confident Employer

Cycle to Work scheme

Free onsite parking

Job summary

International Baccalaureate is seeking a Production Designer to join the Exam Publishing Department at IB Global Centre, Cardiff. You will manage visual design and production of IB assessments across languages, ensuring clarity, accessibility and accuracy.

The role is a fixed-term, full-time contract (two posts), hybrid with office presence one day per week, circa £32,000 depending on experience, and includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Excellent eye for detail and meticulous accuracy.
• Ability to work in a team and manage changing priorities.
• Strong typography and design skills.
• Advanced communication skills and problem-solving.
• Experience with creating and editing visual materials for assessments.
• Degree in graphic design or related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, build and amend IB assessments with focus on layout clarity and accessibility.
• Design and edit images, illustrations and graphics in line with house style.
• Maintain templates and design style guides for consistency across languages.
• Support publishing team in resolving technical design issues.

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Deadlines management

Typography knowledge

English language

Education

Degree in graphic design or related field

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

MS Word

Job description

Production Designer x 2
Salary: Circa £32,000, depending on experience
Job Type: 2 x Fixed-Term Contracts, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week (20 Months and 14 Months)
IB Global Centre, Cardiff
Hybrid Working (Office presence required 1 day per week)

About the IB

The International Baccalaureate provides world-class educational services to over 6,000 schools across more than 160 countries. Additionally, we are increasingly working with Education Systems, supporting them in achieving their education reform goals. A career with the IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader in education services where we empower our employees to thrive and make a difference.

About the Role

The Production Designer is part of our Exam Publishing Department who are responsible for designing and developing traditional and digital assessment material. The Production Designer is accountable for managing the visual design and production of IB assessments and related material in line with IB standards and quality, including the creation of Korean language assessments alongside materials in a wide range of other languages.

Key Responsibilities

• Accurately develop,buildand amend IB assessments and related material,with a focus on layout clarity, accessibility and accuracy.
• Design, create and edit images, illustrations, graphicsand other visual elements in line with house style, for use in assessments and related material.
• Maintain and develop templates and design specific style guides ensuring assessments are consistent and created in line with our organization, subject and language specific guides.
• Offer support and guidance to the publishing team in the analysis and resolution of technical issues.
• Working with internal and external stakeholders, offer advice on the design and layout of IB assessments.
• Assist with the integration of new systems, software and working practices.

About You

Essential:

• Excellent skills in using Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, in particular MS Word.
• An exceptional eye for detail and meticulous accuracy.
• Strong design and technical skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and a diligent approach to working autonomously.
• Capacity to proactively manage changing priorities and deadlines.
• Advanced communication skills and the ability to effectively provide solutions to technical challenges.
• A degree or equivalent experience in a relevantfield, or experience of working within a relevant professional environment. Including experience in a graphic design, art-worker and/or technical illustrator role.
• Strong typographical knowledge.
• Ability to work under pressure within a flexible working environment.
• An excellent command of the English language.

Desirable:

Experience of typesetting in the Korean, Chinese, Japanese version of InDesign.

• Written fluency in Korean would be highly desirable.
• Written fluency in French, Spanish and/or Japanese.
• Experience of multi-media such as Adobe Audition software.
• Experience working with HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Experience with technical illustration and/or creating material for the sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics).

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:

• 10% employer pension contribution from first day of employment (minimum contribution required from yourself is 3%)
• Annual salary review (from July 2027)
• 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays
• 10 Days work from anywhere leave (per calendar year)
• Flexi Hours with our core hours as 10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm. You can flex your 37.5 hours per week around this
• Enhanced family friendly benefits
• Life assurance 4x annual salary
• Paid volunteering leave (one day per calendar year)
• Flexible benefits allowance at 1.5% of your annual salary
• Excellent continuous professional development
• Health and wellness schemes
• Disability Confident Employer
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Discounts on a range of products, including days out and Gym Memberships
• Cash back opportunities available from a wide range of retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free onsite parking

Opportunity & Belonging

We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified applicants. As a global employer, we adhere to all relevant employment legislation in the countries in which we operate, and we’re happy to provide any reasonable support or adjustments as needed to ensure applicants can fully participate in our recruitment process.