Junior Designer

*this role is open to remote working within the UK. Successful candidates will be required to travel to their closest UNiDAYS campus (London or Nottingham) on occasion.

The role in a nutshell

As a Junior Designer, creativity is essential to this role. You’ll have fun, be inquisitive and produce vibrant and performance driven work for UNiDAYS and our partners. Taking direction and reporting through to a member of the Creative Team, you will be responsible for individual elements of our marketing activities targeting our student audience, as well as supporting our bigger campaigns.  

As an integral part of the creative process, you will work collaboratively from concept creation, throughout production, up to delivery producing static and motion graphics across diverse media, to capture the attention of our Gen Z audience. 

This role will contribute to the creative process ensuring good-quality, creative work whilst developing attention to detail and best practices, showing the ability to collaborate, with a keen interest in visual and motion design trends.

Day to day responsibilities 

• Producing good quality ideas for Creative campaigns and projects, to meet deadlines
• Designing static creative graphics, having the ability to bring these to life through gifs and animation is desirable
• Developing skills to contribute to design stages of campaigns, working closely with the project team
• Starting to develop independent judgement on creative work 
• Good communication and updating of project management tools to keep everyone informed
• Developing skills to present creative ideas and collaborate with other departments
• Begin to understand commercial awareness and business strategy to justify creative ideas
• Show a proactive approach and eagerness to learn company systems, and ways of working i.e Google Suite HTML email coding, work scheduling programs
• Puts the customer at the heart of what they do

What we need from you

Who You Are

• Motivated conceptual thinker and shows examples of problem solving
• Developing understanding of how to creatively answer client briefs and the audience needs
• Good attention to detail and understanding of creative standards
• Collaborates and communicates creative ideas within the Creative Studio and to business stakeholders in an engaging and effective way
• Developing confidence to give feedback to other team members
• Ability to take on board positive, constructive feedback and apply it to your work
• Developing good knowledge and interest in emerging design trends and Gen Z appropriate channels
• Keen to learn and develop skills and experience

What You Have Done

• Experience within a creative role.
• Good at interpreting and responding to client briefs
• Expanding skills, conceptualisation & visual communication with the ability to scamp ideas
• Developing understanding of creative delivery in print and digital design for omni-channel campaigns
• Have and interest or ability to bring static graphics to life with GIFs and animation
• Good collaborator - working with Designers, Marketeers, Copywriters and Creative Services

Technical Skills:

• Basic knowledge of Adobe CC. e.g. Indesign, Illustrator, After Effect, Photoshop.
• Good in Google Suite
• Basic understanding of HTML code is a plus

Perks

We've accomplished a lot since we started in 2011, but in many ways, this is just the beginning. This is the chance for you to get in on ground zero. An opportunity to make a difference within the business with global reach. We are the world’s largest Student Affinity Network, with over 22 million verified members in 115 markets including the US, UK, Germany, India, Canada and Australia. We work with 800 of the world’s biggest brands globally, taking their products and services into the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals, delivering engagement, building affinity and sales. You’ll also be working for a Great Place to Work CertifiedTM company who have been recognised on the UK’s Best WorkplacesTM for Wellbeing and UK's Best Workplaces for Women 2022 list. To find out more about our workplace initiatives, see our UK exclusive case study with Great Place to Work and be sure to visit our profile for more information.

We offer a fast paced, fun & social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe that work should enhance and complement your life which is why we leave it up to you to decide where you work. You can choose to work from your assigned campus (either Nottingham or London) or from home, whatever works best for your individual needs. Your manager may request you attend team meet ups at your campus but other than that it is up to you! We work hard at UNiDAYS, but we also believe in fair compensation for hard work. That's why we're pleased to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.

Our perks include:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays
• Competitive salaries
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Company bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Private health insurance (Vitality)
• Income protection policy
• Life assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Core hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time
• Regular team building activities
• The latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one
• Good Vibes Program: we know we’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working and UNiDAYS has always taken pride in the community we’ve created in the office but we’re just as committed to creating an innovative approach to fostering connections and improving engagement outside of the office! We want to boost your remote working experience so think virtual parties, pottery classes, wellness classes and guest speakers just to name a few!
• Support for home working for all new team members. We will help assess your home set up and you can expense £150 towards any additional furniture you may need to be safe and comfortable when working from home

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.