Graphic Designer- Pursuits

SWCA, Incorporated; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

SWCA, Incorporated seeks a Pursuit Graphic Designer to transform complex information into clear visuals for proposals and client presentations. You will work with a national team to tell compelling stories and support win strategies across water resources, energy, infrastructure, and habitat restoration.

Responsibilities include designing infographics, layouts, maps, and data visuals, while maintaining brand consistency and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, or related field.
• 3 years graphic design experience, including proposals, presentations, or business development materials.
• Ability to collaborate with pursuit teams and technical experts.
• Experience designing long-form documents in InDesign.
• Strong typography, color, imagery and layout.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) on Windows.
• Proficiency with Word and PowerPoint, including advanced presentation design.
• Knowledge of print production and digital publishing.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects from concept to completion.
• Create infographics, data visuals, maps, diagrams, and layouts.
• Partner with teams to develop strategic visual solutions.
• Maintain brand consistency and reusable graphic assets.
• Ensure accuracy and quality across all marketing materials.

Skills

Graphic design

Proposal design

Visual storytelling

Cross-functional

Time management

Presentation design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

About the opportunity

Do you love turning complex ideas into clear, compelling visuals that help win work?

At SWCA, the Pursuit Graphic Designer plays a key role in transforming complex information into compelling visual communications that make our proposals and client presentations easier to understand, more compelling, and make a memorable impact. Working across pursuits in water resources and energy and infrastructure to habitat restoration and cultural resources, you’ll use your creative expertise to help clients quickly understand our approach, trust our expertise, and recognize why SWCA is the right partner for their project.

This role is for a designer who sees visual storytelling as a strategic part of the pursuit process. You’ll work closely with a national team of proposal professionals, technical experts and client-focused leaders to understand what matters most to the client, identify the story we need to tell, and translate complex ideas into persuasive visual communications.

Your work may include infographics, data visualizations, proposal layouts, organizational graphics, process diagrams, maps, interview client presentations, or interactive marketing materials. Whether you’re simplifying a complicated technical approach, highlighting the experience of a project team, or helping bring a win strategy to life, your design work will help make our proposals easier to understand, more memorable, and more competitive.

The role is a full-time position reporting to the Creative Services Manager. We offer flexibility to work remotely, in a hybrid capacity, or from an SWCA office. Candidates residing in the Midwest region are preferred, though qualified applicants from other locations will be considered.

Application Deadline

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and interviews may be scheduled as qualified candidates are identified. This position may close without prior notice once a strong candidate pool is established.

What you will accomplish

• Leads design processes or projects from conception to completion. This includes spearheading marketing campaigns, brand-building events, and multimedia projects, ensuring that each project aligns with strategic objectives and is delivered on time.
• Analyzes and interprets both internal and external business challenges, offering creative solutions and best practices to enhance efficiency and achieve company goals. Uses technical expertise in graphic design and multimedia to offer innovative solutions.
• Exhibits a strong technical proficiency in graphic design and multimedia that is grounded in a thorough understanding of fundamental theories, practices, and concepts. Applies this expertise to create compelling visual content that supports marketing objectives.
• Contributes to strategy development by leveraging past experiences and market research. Works collaboratively with leadership to guide decision making within the graphic design and multimedia domain, ensuring that creative strategies effectively support broader marketing goals.
• Coordinates and manages project schedules to ensure the timely completion of tasks. Oversight of project team efforts, ensuring that all members are effectively contributing to project milestones and deliverables.
• Implements rigorous quality control measures to verify the accuracy and completeness of all creative materials. Reviews and edits marketing and proposal graphics for clarity, coherence, and compliance with requirements, maintaining high standards of quality across all outputs.
• Follows applicable federal, Tribal, state, local, industry, contractual, and company regulations, standards, and specifications.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Additional Job-Specific Responsibilities

• Design & prepare proposal, presentation, and pursuit-related visual materials that strengthen messaging and support business development efforts.
• Create graphics, infographics, maps, diagrams, data visualizations, and other visual assets that simplify complex information and communicate SWCA's value.
• Partner with proposal, marketing, business development, and technical teams to develop strategic visual solutions that enhance competitiveness and support win strategies.
• Maintain and evolve SWCA's library of proposal graphics, templates, and visual assets while ensuring brand consistency across client-facing materials.
• Embrace SWCA's core value of Always Learning by exploring innovative approaches to visual storytelling and continuously improving how the firm communicates its expertise, solutions, and value to clients.

Experience and qualifications for success

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, or related field.
• Three (3) years of graphic design experience, preferably with at least two years of experience designing proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, or other business development materials in an in-house corporate creative department or design firm with the ability to effectively manage multiple projects.
• Ability to collaborate with pursuit teams and technical experts to solve complex communication challenges.
• Experience designing and producing large, complex document layouts.
• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, color, imagery and layout.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop on a Windows-based platform.
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing long-form documents in InDesign.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, including advanced presentation design.
• Familiarity with print production and digital publishing environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years of graphic design experience.
• Experience/background working in the environmental consulting industry or other science field

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling visual communications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with pursuit teams, marketing professionals, and technical subject matter experts to create persuasive visual storytelling solutions.
• Excellent creative thinking, organization, problem-solving, and time-management skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team.