Junior / Graduate Graphic Designer
The Group
eQS’s founding principle is to create a ‘business that does good’ and the company has been driven by that ethos since 2006. Together, the Group’s portfolio of diversity, inclusion and wellbeing businesses comprise the UK’s leading Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) specialists. Now nearly 100-strong, the eQS workforce are united in a common goal: removing barriers to education, work and life, and transforming internal cultures to create social and business benefits on a national scale.
eQS has initiated a Group-wide DEI review, designed and delivered by our own workplace DEI division, EW Group and Challenge Consultancy. This project includes a comprehensive diversity audit across all areas of the business from recruitment, management, policies, communications, training and more to ensure all our practices are inclusive and support diverse talent.
Black, Asian, minority ethnic and disabled people are currently underrepresented at eQS and are particularly encouraged to apply.
More information is available here: Home – EQS.
Please send your CV and a cover letter to: careers@e-q-s.com.
The Role
In this role you will have a close working relationship with the CEO / marketing team and IT development team across all our companies. You’ll be reporting into our Marketing Manager.
As Junior Graphic Designer you will help to create and improve the messaging and connection between our brands and customers. Your opinion matters, so we’ll love it if you come to management with ideas on how we can improve design aspects.
We offer a hybrid working model; however, you will be required to be in the office for your induction period. You will also be required to be in the office on some days, the ability to travel to our Hebburn office is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Design marketing collateral for websites and other digital assets including emails, social media, blogs, and some print materials.
- Create digital animation and motion graphics, be comfortable with story boarding and storytelling.
- Video creation & editing.
- Work collaboratively within the marketing team and with the wider team to ensure brand consistency across all media.
- Audio file editing.
- Presenting a design concept & initial design.
- Proficient in creative tools (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design) and digital animation skills (e.g. After Effects, Final Cut).
- Creating graphic educational content for our e-learning portal.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience required – passion and interest for graphic design and able to show examples of what you have created previously.
- Willing to learn new skills and develop existing skills.
- understanding of design principles with great attention to detail.
- Able to adapt quickly to business priorities and to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Self-motivated with a high level of pride in your work.
- Has a ‘can do’ approach and work effectively as part of a team as well as independently.
- Happy to be part of a multi-functional marketing team and comfortable working with people at all levels of the company.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience of the DSA and/or education sector but not essential.
- Understanding of accessible design.
Our Values
We are looking for a candidate who shares our values…
We support our staff in fulfilling the values with our monthly Lunch ‘n’ Learn programme where members of the team take turns to lead a fun and interactive workshop (and lunch is included!) We also run a LEAD (Leadership Exploration and Development) Programme to support our management team in growing as leaders of the business.