2d Animator

_**Passionate about animation? Join our award winning, ethical creative agency.**_

Diva is looking for a full-time Animator to join our growing in-house animation studio.

We’re looking for an experienced, mid level animator, has great visual storytelling skills and is a strong illustrator. You’ll be ambitious, keen to work collaboratively with a team of creatives and committed to developing your animation and illustration skills.

**About Diva**

At Diva, your work will make a difference. As an agency with a strong ethical focus, we work on life-changing campaigns in areas including health, environment, equality and diversity that achieve real results. Our work has improved lives, the environment and raised awareness about important issues from human rights to sexual health.

**The requirements**
- Minimum 5 years experience of producing 2D animation
- Able to work in a range of visual styles and produce illustrative assets
- Working with our Creative Lead and Copywriter to develop creative concepts, story treatments and storyboards.
- Proficient in After effects, Photoshop and Illustrator
- Strong motion graphics skills
- A team player who can work alongside other illustrators, designers and animators to deliver outstanding work
- Able to share, discuss and champion their ideas and animations with the Creative and Marketing teams
- Experience working for external clients
- Willingness and interest in learning new skills
- A creative thinker with a can-do, positive attitude

The following are also desirable:

- Agency-side experience
- A diverse range of animation styles including frame-by-frame animation
- Sound design
- Video editing
- Graphic/Social media design

**Life at Diva**

Achieving the right work-life balance and personal progression are important to us as we

believe this will give our people the opportunity to develop a highly rewarding career.

You will work with friendly, like-minded colleagues who share your desire to make a

difference, bringing ideas and creativity into our work as much as possible. Diva is based in a

great location in Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter, opposite Sheffield train station. Most of our team work within a regular hybrid home/studio pattern.

We offer a range of employee benefits:

- 28 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays.
- Christmas shutdown, and extra Bank Holiday in August
- Additional annual leave day after 2 years service up to a max 5 days
- Hybrid working
- Great opportunities for career progression, with regular reviews
- Individual training support plan funded by the company
- Time off for volunteering and supporting charities (discretionary)
- Company new bike scheme through salary sacrifice
- Family-friendly policy and discretionary sabbatical leave
- Socials

**We believe in inclusive recruitment**

We recognise the great benefits of having a diverse workforce with different

backgrounds, employed solely on ability. We're committed not only to our legal obligations, but also to the positive promotion of equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.

We're therefore committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community of work colleagues - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- 2D animation: 5 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield