Graphic Designer Wigton, England
Job description
GLL is looking for a Graphic Designer to work at our Graphic Art and Print Centre in Wigton, Cumbria. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Graphic Designer, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Graphic Designer job, it is a career.
GLL, the leading provider of public leisure and cultural services in the UK, is actively seeking a talented Graphic Designer to join our dynamic in-house design team situated on the doorstep of the English Lake District.
As a valued member of our creative family, you’ll collaborate closely with diverse stakeholders from marketing, library, and leisure centre teams across the UK. You’ll produce high quality graphic design assets for marketing campaigns, events, social media, websites and more. You’ll create content for B2B, B2C and B2E channels, designing compelling brochures, eye-catching flyers, captivating advertisements, alluring merchandise, and engaging online graphics. Your designs will seamlessly adhere to company and partner brand guidelines, positioning our social enterprise as a leading operator of community services and inclusive spaces for all.
By joining our accomplished art working team as a Graphic Designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering an unparalleled experience for our business, imparting identity and prominence to both GLL and our consumer brand 'Better'. Your seasoned expertise will effortlessly transform briefs and information into captivating touchpoints, sparking conversations and fostering interest. Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign within a Windows environment, is second nature to you. You’ll be unfazed by tight deadlines and working on multiple projects with changing needs - in fact, you’ll thrive on pace and variety.
You’ll be passionate about your job, with a high attention to detail, enthusiastic to learn more, and always striving to achieve the highest quality of work.
If you also have experience in motion graphic design for multimedia formats, then this Graphic Designer role could be just the opportunity you are looking for.
What you need:
- Graphic design based post graduate qualification
- Graphic design based software specific qualification
- Minimum 1 year experience in a similar graphic design / art working role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Robust capability using Adobe Creative suite (specifically Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat), Microsoft Office suite and CMS systems.
- Basic animation/motion graphic development competency
- Data literate
- Strong layout, typography and typesetting skills.
- Multitasker able to work across multiple projects to tight timescales
- Possess a genuine passion to adapt and develop within the continuously evolving field of Graphic Design
As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:
- A salary of between £24,293.11 and £30,355.20 per annum.
- A Values driven organisation
- Learning & development to support career development
- Good Pension schemes
- Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
- A full time permanent position
- Industry leading rates of pay
- Opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
- Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
- Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
- Employee helpline
- Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
- Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
- 25% off Red Letter Days
- 25% off Buy A Gift
- 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
- Ride to work scheme
- Free eye tests and discounted glasses
About GLL: As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
- A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
- A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.
