Digital Design Apprentice

**Science and Technology Facilities Council**

**Salary**: £23,186
**Hours**: Full time - 37 Hours
**Contract** Type: Fixed Term - 4 Years
**Location**: Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus, Warrington, WA4 4AD

We have a rare opportunity to join us as a **Digital Design Apprentice** at **Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.**There are two roles available: Digital Services Team or Hartree Centre Digital Creative Services Team.

**The Digital Creative Services team**

The Digital Creative Services team is part of Digital Infrastructure Department. Digital Creative Services are experienced professionals using the latest technology to provide the most responsive and reliable multi-media services. Our services include:

- Graphic design and visual communication
- Website design and development
- Illustration and Infographics
- Animation - 2D and 3D
- Video production and editing
- Photography - onsite studio
- Branding
- Event displays and materials

With direction and support from the lead digital designer and senior graphic designer, you will undertake the following:

- Meeting clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
- Estimating the time required to complete a job and update clients.
- Developing design briefs that suit the client's purpose
- thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts and developing interactive design
- Using innovation to redefine a design brief within time constraints
- Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients
- Working with a range of media and keeping up to date with emerging technologies
- Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work
- Working as part of a team with printers, copywriters, photographers, other designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists.
- Providing accessible design support to STFC

**Hartree Centre**

The Hartree Centre mission is to enable UK businesses and the public sector to explore and adopt innovative digital technologies for increased productivity, economic growth and innovation. Our aim is to shape the future of High-performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and emerging technologies by contributing our expertise to foundational research.

**About an Apprenticeship at STFC**

With training and support from experts in their fields, you’ll be enthusiastic about developing your knowledge, skills and behaviours, working towards completing your apprenticeship, gaining appropriate qualifications whilst making a real difference in your role.

If working with innovative technologies on world-leading research isn’t enough, you will develop both professionally and as a critical member of the team in an environment you won’t find anywhere else.

Our dedicated Apprenticeship Team will support you every step of the way, helping you make the most of your opportunities and to achieve the goals you already have - and those you have yet to discover

We provide an opportunity to really pursue your interests and passion. You’ll have access to additional core skills development, access to a community of apprentices across the site, annual Apprentice awards evenings, a number of active sport and social groups across campus, and potential opportunities for overseas placements.

STFC offers a benefits package crafted to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days’ annual leave, an outstanding index linked pension scheme, 10.5 public and privilege days, Christmas closure and flexible working hours.

For a list of our full benefits, please visit here.

**Summary of key duties & responsibilities**

As Digital Design Apprentice you will be working closely with our E-Learning Media Designer. Your key duties will be:

- Under guidance from the eLearning Media Designer, ensure tasks are delivered to budget and on time
- Design digital and print content for online learning and live events
- Generating drafts and mock-ups of proposed designs for review and make revisions as requested.
- Storyboard learning content based on media design principles.
- Update and maintain the content, ensuring that it is accurate, version controlled, and quality assured.
- Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to gain understanding of the suitable, engaging and interactive media designs for the courses addressing variety of target audiences.
- Work collaboratively and iteratively with the Business Development, Stakeholder Engagement and the Research Teams for the production of media materials.

The Digital Design Apprentice will undertake professional development and training through a mixture of online and in-person teaching with Manchester Metropolitan University completing the **Creative Digital Design Professional (Integrated Degree) Level 6 Apprenticeship.** There will be 18 days of teaching per year (3 days per unit), plus additional online touchpoints. attending in-person teaching at MMU’s ground-breaking School of Digital Arts (SODA).

The modules you will complete