Digital Designer
Role Responsibility
Maternity Cover 9 months
Hybrid (remote & Maidstone, Kent)
Marketing, Communications and PR
Are you an enthusiastic digital designer who wants to make a difference and join a team creating high quality website experiences for Kent’s residents?
Do you have excellent digital design skills including Adobe Creative Cloud apps and especially Photoshop?
Kent County Council’s Marketing and Residence Experience (MRX) team are looking for an experienced digital designer to help us create visual content for the council’s website kent.go.uk
As an MRX Digital Designer, you’ll be working across the whole of kent.gov.uk, sometimes collaborating with our wider creative team and sometimes independently. You’ll be working to produce quality design and visual content across a broad range of services, audiences and issues.
We’re looking for someone who thinks ‘graphic and digital design for websites’ and is comfortable.
You will be responsible for:
Proposing graphic design concepts
Collaborating with other creatives and content creators to generate engaging visuals
Helping our services translate what they need into impactful design
About you
You have an excellent digital design portfolio, especially for websites
You love to collaborate and work as part of a team
You know how to present your work and the thinking behind it
You have excellent Adobe Creative Cloud app skills
You know how to create responsive, user-centric designs that meet accessibility and good practice standards
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please provide examples of your creative work when applying.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to present their portfolio at interview to demonstrate why they are best suited for the role.
Contact Details
For further information regarding this role, please contact:
Julian Scott (julian.scott@kent.gov.uk) or call 03000 416657
About the Company
Work that works for you and us - let’s talk flexibility!
KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
Job Description & Person Specification
