Hello & welcome!
You can read a welcome from our co-owners Lawrence & Lauren on our website - visit https://electrify.me.uk/careers
Key headlines
Team: Creative
Reports to: Creative lead
Contractual status: 12 month contract, full time (open to discussing reduce hours)
Salary: £31.35k FTE band
Pension: Employee/employer contribution via Nest
Benefits:
* Profit share bonus (annual) - March, paid May
* Discretionary personal performance bonus (annual), November, paid December
* £32 monthly physical wellbeing payment
* £30 towards your mobile phone each month
* 32 days annual leave plus your birthday off (or alternative)!
* Wellbeing half-day off every month (Fridays)
* Our wider approach includes provision of specialist counselling services
Office base: 1C Alba Pavilions, Alba Business Park, Livingston, EH54 7HG
Introducing the role
We’re recruiting for a multimedia designer (Creative Partner) to join our team and play a vital role in our creative output.
This is a fixed term 12 month contract (initially) as Clare in our team heads off on maternity leave.
Whether you’re building brilliant visual multiplatform campaigns, designing reports, creating motion graphics or explainer animations, you'll develop inspiring content that helps us tell extraordinary stories.
You must have at least three years’ (or equivalent) demonstrable experience to be considered for this role.
This is a key role, so you will be involved in every part of the creative process, including research, engagement, concept development, and creative production.
Working effectively is an enabler to creativity too, so you’ll help us maintain our Business Process Document, which is a key part of our drive to be consistent and efficient.
You will also be hungry - very hungry - to learn more, acquire new skills and knowledge because we’re a dynamic team that never stops moving forward.
Speaking of our team, when it comes to creativity everyone is an equal. Nobody has a monopoly on ideas or wisdom.
We’ll need you to help us make sure we live our values, and create the right environment.
Your growth and development matters, too. You’ll take part in our Performance Framework, which is our way of assessing what makes a brilliant outcome for our clients, the business - and you!
You’ll work with our new Creative Lead to evaluate your performance, set realistic development objectives. In return, we’ll reward commitment and excellence for the part you play.
Depending on your progress you’ll be able to earn an additional bonus - one of two we offer annually.
One important thing to know is that we work full time from our office in Livingston.
We passionately believe in and see the power of working together collaboratively in a creative environment. For this role we require you to have a full driving licence and car.
We’re confident that if you join our team then you’re in for an amazing adventure in a place where you can be yourself, flourish and be fearless knowing that we’ve got your back.
Ready to find out more? Let’s go!
What you’ll be designing
Let’s talk about some of the types of creative you could be designing, because it’s a broad skill set we’re looking for:
Editorial
Reports, white papers, direct mail, slide decks, brochures, presentations
Digital
Websites, email marketing, social media (including static and motion Reels)
Out of home
Multichannel digital and print
Brand
Visual ID, colour, font, icons, brand elements, guidelines, templates (including Canva)
2D animation
Vector-based illustration, storyboarding, build and motion (After Effects)
Film / video
Some editing, provision of lower thirds, on screen graphics or end stings
Role profile
Now here’s the role profile that will support your work:
Creative development:
* Support the research and develop strategic, creative campaign ideas in collaboration with our team and people with lived and living experience
* Support the development of campaign concept planning and ideas, including visual approach
* Interpret briefs and (sometimes complicated or lengthy) copy
Creative production:
* Use Adobe Creative Cloud to design a range of static assets with exceptional attention to detail including brand / visual identity, documents, reports, brochures, flyers, digital and social media assets
* Use Adobe Creative Cloud to develop a range of skills including vector based illustration (including storyboards) and motion and animation
* Work with different types of brand guidelines and style requirements
* Ensure content is accessible based on client requirements - but usually between AA and AAA (WCAG guidelines)
* This includes use of reader technology in PDF documents
* Optimise and size content in various formats
* Support delivery in our Electrify Academy programme, by sharing your creative expertise and delivering some courses (with other colleagues)
Project / campaign management
* Follow tasks set out in our project management system within agreed timescales
* Proactively maintain positive client relationships
* Work collaboratively with our comms team to develop effective delivery plans such as content grids
Evaluation & reporting
* Identify new creative trends, evolving technology and set out on improvement paths
* Prepare presentations for clients to report on progress or to deliver new ideas
Representing our brand
* Support our own social media channels and website by creating or repurposing imaginative, high quality content
* Willingness to embrace new challenges and learn new skills
* Support our pro bono work with our local secondary school as part of our Community Engagement programme
This profile, and the types of design you may undertake, are not exhaustive. This role may require the fulfilment of other activities for the company from time to time.
Attributes
Here’s the super six things we’re looking for in a candidate:
Intuitively creative and diverse in approach and style -you’ll have a thirst for ideas, and a commitment to pushing boundaries - you’ll ‘get it’ (if you know, you know!)
Bold in your ideas - we want people who are brave, and who will have the confidence to speak up. When it comes to creativity, everyone is equal at Electrify
Attention to detail - you’ll be forensic in your approach from understanding the brief through to creative execution. Everything leaving us has to be brilliant
Phenomenally well organised - we believe that being organised, great at time management, and good at prioritising is a key enabler to creativity. Being organised is vital to us
A problem solver - we’re storytellers, regardless of our role and so working out effective ways to tell a story, often requires moving jigsaw pieces around to find the best way
Comprehension / decoding - you’ll be able to take briefs, read them, understand what the message is, and find great ways to respond to them. Great English skills are vital
Our view on qualifications
You may have relevant qualifications, but that’s not the most important thing for us - and it is not how we decide who to meet or offer any role to.
What’s far more important for everyone at Electrify is personality and character - as well as a great
track record in delivering for the role you are applying to.
When we meet candidates we ask them to tell us about their experience, and try to relate it to what
we’re looking for. The more practical you can be, the better.
How to apply
Please visit our website at https://electrify.me.uk/careers. Here you will find a recruitment pack with full details including information on how to apply.
Please note that we won't accept applications that don't include a cover letter, CV, and portfolio.