Digital Design & Developer Apprentice

Summary

You will design digital assets based on stakeholder briefs while following brand guidelines. This includes web design with a strong focus on UI/UX. You will liaise with clients to understand their needs and deliver effective solutions. Your work will support a consistent brand identity, creating engaging materials.

Wage: £12,570 a year
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Training course: Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
35 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 3 years
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

Contribute to the development of design concepts for various projects
Work collaboratively with team members to create design solutions that align with client needs
Assist the design team in preparing presentations and proposals
Conduct research to stay updated on industry trends and integrate insights into design projects
Participate in team meetings and brainstorming sessions to share creative ideas
Help manage and update design files and resources
Address feedback and make necessary revisions to design work
Update and maintain website content when requests come in
Perform routine plugin and theme updates to keep the CMS secure and functional
Conduct website testing to identify any accessibility, usability or performance issues

Where you’ll work

Noble House

Capital Drive, Linford Wood

Milton Keynes

MK14 6QP

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

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

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.
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.

Your training plan

Creative Digital Design Professional (integrated degree) Level 6.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C)
Maths (grade C)

A Level in:

Any subject (grade BCC)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

BPW Design is an established web design and development agency based in Buckinghamshire, UK. We work with a range of clients, from small digital businesses to global brands, across various industries.

https://bpw.design/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

After completing the Digital Design & Developer Apprentice program, the expected career progression typically follows a path in the digital and tech fields, with opportunities for advancement based on your skills, experience, and interests. This is something we will closely monitor with you on your quarterly appraisels to help guide you with your career path.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BPW DESIGN

Bradley West

bradley@bpw.design

07828468782

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000297701.

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Closes on Monday 31 March 2025

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