Graduate Designer

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom Arup Full time

**_You should be available to start this opportunity from September 2023_**

**Launch your career with Arup**

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.

**Introduction to Foresight**

We are currently seeking a Graduate Designer to work within our Foresight team in London. Arup's Foresight team is a multi-disciplinary team that carries out research and delivers thought leadership on issues affecting the future of the built environment and society at large. Our work is geared towards helping our clients recognise new opportunities and solutions to complex challenges and identify ways of building resilience against future risks under varying contexts. As part of our work, we generate insight, develop strategies, engage and collaborate with high-profile stakeholders, identify and explore emerging trends, create and assess future scenarios, and much more. We work across disciplines and areas of expertise at Arup, as well as for external clients from a broad range of sectors.

**The Role**

Designers play an integral role in researching and delivering foresight products and services for our internal and external clients. The position of a designer will be multifaceted; it will range from design research, prototyping physical and digital concepts, visualising and testing ideas, film, interaction and exhibition work all using design tools and foresight methodologies to critically engage with ideas about the future.

**Responsibilities**
- Working with a variety of stakeholders across the firm and Foresight team members to shape project briefs
- Developing high quality graphics, illustrations, videos, data visualisations and infographics for presentations, reports, websites, and marketing materials
- Using design methods for visioning possible futures, in the context of innovation - e. g. human experience, climate action, regenerative design etc
- Design research using a diverse set of primary and secondary research methods, synthesis, and the ability to communicate insights visually (e. g. ethnography, literature reviews, critical design, prototyping, co-creation etc.)
- Assisting with designing, facilitation, and synthesising workshops, both virtual and in-person
- Developing making capabilities and collaborating widely with various technical teams across Arup, working on more ambitious and holistic designed outcomes

**Requirements and skills**
- Applicants are required to hold a bachelor's degree or a master's degree is desirable in a design or a design-related field
- Strong competency in core design tools e. g. Adobe Suite
- Strong understanding of design and visual communication through graphics, interaction and/or moving image
- Confidence in working in a diverse interdisciplinary team to professional standard
- Confident, curious and critical mindset towards foresight and futures work
- Understanding of design as a tool for research and thinking

**What we are looking for**

We're looking for graduates with personal drive, a diversity of interests and experience and with a passion for addressing the challenges of climate change and the energy transition. If you can combine these skills with an understanding of (or willingness to learn about) and a desire to deliver excellent services for clients, we'd like to hear from you.

**What we offer you**

Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.

As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our people also have access to a range of broader well-being benefits.

You will have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.

**Next steps**

**Different people, shared values**

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

Learn how our Work Unbound initiative is giving all our members greater flexibility in deciding how and where they work.



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