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Job Title: Graphic Designer

Salary: £37,744 to £42,631 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £37,744 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £42,631 will be via incremental progression.

Location: Lambeth

Role Description

This role will place you at the heart of the Digital Forensic Services team offering the opportunity to use your creative and technical talents to enhance the efforts of the Criminal Justice System, helping to reduce crime in the capital. You will be creating innovative, impactful graphics to enhance the presentation of evidence for court in serious and high-profile cases. Acting as a design consultant to you will need to manage client expectations, apply an analytical approach to information, and have the ability to clarify complex scenarios.

With a degree or equivalent in Graphic Design or significant relevant experience, you will have a strong practical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft office and command solid Mac and PC IT skill sets.

An interest in interactive design would be an advantage with the view to developing new methodologies to aide managing the increasing amounts information and multimedia content being collected and how this can best be presented at court.

Your ability to manage multiple projects from conception to production will be key, as well as taking briefs from customers, analysing their individual requirements, deciding on the best options and prioritising work to meet deadlines.

Key Elements

• Act as a design consultant
• To effectively and efficiently convert a wide range of data and complex information into clear and concise information containing visually rich designs that provide maximum impact
• To provide a design service for both print and digital media relating to:
• Evidential presentation material for priority/serious crime and high-profile cases - to enhance the presentation of forensic evidence at court, make complex information intelligible and bring the facts together for a jury in a clear and concise visual format
• Operational support material: Graphics to inform the MPS/public and help gather intelligence information; Operational briefing material and graphics for use as investigative tools and for contingency planning
• Manage multiple projects from brief through to final presentation to ensure streamlined workflow at each stage of the process
• Plan, schedule, co-ordinate, assign and monitor progress of work
• Liaise and negotiate with customers. When necessary, diplomatically influence customers to choose more viable options. Ensure customer requirements are interpreted correctly and the design of the message suited to the target audience. Establish the plan, determine the priorities and prescribe the processes needed to achieve the objective

Problem Solving

The focus of the role is one of problem solving and requires the individual to have the ability to obtain a comprehensive brief from the customer and provide a creative design solution. The role holder is required to consider and determine the customer’s objective and identify the primary message to be conveyed and the target audience. They must have the ability to analyse, interpret, create options, evaluate, reason, make sound judgements, and decide on solutions. They need to be a strong conceptual thinker and proficient in producing innovate creative design solutions - using the most appropriate software techniques - under pressure. The role holder will work with others in decision-making.

Accountability

• Considerable freedom is permitted in achieving end results, although subject to broad practice and procedures covered by functional precedents and policies
• The role holder’s expertise and judgement will be utilised to analyse and interpret information to determine graphic design solutions and give advice. Failure to get this right would have a direct influence on the organisation as it could result in the wrong message being conveyed that could bring the service into disrepute or dispute, especially when dealing with issues of security, terrorism, and other critical incidents
• The role holder is accountable for the flow of information, especially in relation to:

• The timeliness and standard of graphic presentations of evidence at court for homicide, armed robberies, high profile or controversial cases
• The timeliness that Senior Investigating Officers can release Witness Appeals or publicity material to the media. This is important as effective communication can frequently result in critical evidence being established; new witnesses being discovered; important intelligence information coming to light; person being eliminated from the investigation and suspects being identified. It also affects the public’s perception of the police’s response to an incident
• The timeliness of producing material for operational briefings and Police Eyes Only purposes with the objective of identifying and causing the arrest of the perpetrators of crime before they further disrupt the public or escape the country

• Understand and accept the core principles set out in the H&S Policy in relation to your role, duties and responsibilities and implement those principles and requirements in day-to-day activities
• Demonstrate effective visible safety leadership, understand H&S policy and lead compliance within area of responsibility. Implement the principles and requirements of H&S policy in your day-to-day activities and within the teams you work/manage. Encourage open dialogue and feedback on safety issues
• Expected to work within the Forensic Service Quality Management System and actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the system by participating in quality assurance activities, engaging in internal and external audits, competence and proficiency tests, reporting non-conformances and proposing changes to improve the system

Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:

https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV online application form.

Completed applications must be submitted by 17 March 2023.

We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

Additional Information

The following competencies will be tested at interview at Level 2:

• We support, deliver and inspire
• We analyse critically
• We are emotionally aware
• We take ownership

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• The role requires a degree or equivalent in Graphic Design and comprehensive experience of concepts, principles and practices gained from working in a multi-disciplined design studio and specialist IT environment for a minimum of 3 years
• The role holder will have creative design skills with an awareness of contemporary design trends. They will have the ability to develop innovate solutions and exploit advances in design and digital technology. The individual will have a thorough and comprehensive combination of applied and theoretical knowledge of design, digital media, electronic publishing, prepress and printing processes, scanning factors, colour management and the use of composition, typography, and imagery. The role requires extensive knowledge of specialist software - particularly Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat), and a broad knowledge of various other file formats and compatibilities. The role holder must be adaptive and continually learn with the ability to select, develop and assess the applicability of specialist design techniques
• They will have excellent IT skills and practical experience of using and troubleshooting both Macintosh and PC operating systems and have a broad knowledge of Information Communication Technology (ICT) both in relation to the MPS and in the design industry as a whole
• They will have highly developed interpersonal and negotiating skills
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in terms of explaining and clarifying technical information to staff at all levels within the MPS