In-house designer (maternity cover)

Closing date for all applications: Wednesday 15 January 2025

Salary: £24,850- £27,985 per annum, depending on experience.

Join a team that values artistry and excellence in every page and cover.

Intellect is an independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.

Best known for our work in the visual and performing arts, we provide publishing services in many subject areas, backed by almost 40 years of steady growth, and a reputation for excellence in design and production.

Intellect is currently seeking an In House Designer to join our team on a maternity cover basis. You will be on a fixed term contract and the duration could be up to 12 months starting from 1st March 2025 until 1st March 2026.

Responsibilities

Book design

• Design a range of book covers for each season (approx 30 a season) 
• Prepare covers for print
• Good working relationship with authors and editors to achieve successful cover
• Working with limited budgets 
• Typesetting of a few books a year 
• Amending and designing new internal layouts for books
• Journal cover design

Support Marketing team

• Editing videos for social media, including the timely delivery of each 'In Conversation' podcast episode
• Create and design banners, posters and adverts for print and electronically
• Create the annual books and journals catalogues
• Magazine design

Support Marketing Manager

• Conferences: producing marketing materials for our exhibits program
• Support the Marketing Manager as required

Knowledge, skills and experience

• You will have a proactive attitude, with good time management, ability to work independently with good communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others. 
• We are looking for someone with a good knowledge of design principles, working within the marketing team. 
• You should have a good knowledge of sending designs to print and working with printers. 
• You should also have an understanding of house styles and following brand guidelines and a good knowledge of Adobe Suite.

This is a full-time position, 37.5 hrs pw. This position will be based in our office in Bristol, with flexible working available.

Our staff enjoy a very supportive working culture and job fulfilment, and we are committed to a healthy work/life balance. Benefits include:

• Flexible working
• Generous annual leave, 25 days (inc Christmas and your birthday) plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension
• Childcare voucher scheme where applicable
• Cycle to work scheme
• Interest-free company loan 

Please apply with a full CV and covering letter to Ria Baker by clicking the 'Apply' button.

All interviews will be conducted at our Bristol office or remotely via Gmeet where applicable.

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, genders, abilities and ethnicities.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

(Please note that if you have not received a reply by Friday 24 January then your application has not been successful on this occasion.)