Graphic Design Degree Apprentice

Summary

You will be required to create designs, digital and print collateral, from internal stakeholder briefs and adhere to brand guidelines, and commercially contribute to the delivery of a strong and consistent brand identity, creating effective communication materials that attract and engage with our audience.

Annual wage: £18,000 a year
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Training course: Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday. Start and finish times to be confirmed. Hybrid - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in our Nottingham office.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Assist in the creation and development of design concepts for various projects.
Collaborate with team members to produce design solutions that meet client requirements.
Support the design team in preparing presentations and proposals.
Conduct research to stay current with industry trends and incorporate them into design projects.
Participate in team meetings and brainstorming sessions to contribute design ideas.
Help maintain the organisation and updating design files and resources.
Respond to feedback and make the necessary adjustments to design work.

Where you’ll work

One Mere Way

Ruddington

Nottingham

NG11 6JS

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Your training course

Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.

Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.

Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.

Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.

Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.

Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.

Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.

Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.

Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.

Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.

Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.

Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.

Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.

Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.

Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.

Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.

Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.

Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.