Brand and Design Specialist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 413839

**Salary**:

- £30,870 - £35,736
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Temporary

**Length of employment**:

- Temporary until 1 October 2026

**Business area**:

- WP - Communications

**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Cardiff

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
At the Senedd, our goal is to place citizens at the heart of everything we do - and our visual identity is a key part of how we connect with them. As a Brand and Design Specialist, you’ll be at the creative forefront of our Communications Service, helping to shape how the Senedd is seen and understood by people across Wales.

With less than a year to go until the next Senedd election, this is a unique opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment in Welsh democracy. You’ll help lead the visual transition from the Sixth to the Seventh Senedd, and play a part in delivering the Senedd 2026 campaign.

From bold campaign visuals and engaging public-facing materials, to polished internal templates and reports, your work will span all of our brand identities, including: Core (our corporate brand), People of Wales (our public-facing brand) and Senedd 2026 (our election campaign brand). You’ll collaborate with teams across the organisation, offering expert design advice and ensuring everything we produce is visually compelling, on-brand and accessible.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, supportive team that values creativity, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset. Reporting to the Brand and Design Manager, you’ll bring fresh ideas, a sharp eye for detail and a flair for visual storytelling.

**Job description**:
**Key tasks**

You will be supported by the Brand and Design Manager to:

- Create and maintain design assets like graphics, templates and promotional materials - including for the Senedd 2026 campaign.
- Update and improve templates for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Adobe InDesign.
- Collaborate with internal teams to provide design solutions that communicate the Senedd’s messages and values.
- Ensure brand consistency across all digital and print platforms by following the Senedd’s brand guidelines.
- Update internal intranet pages with advice and brand assets.
- Help check and produce Senedd 2026 campaign assets.
- Oversee the Senedd 2026 campaign asset library.
- Support the team through the transition period between the Sixth and Seventh Senedd.
- Provide excellent customer service to Senedd Commission staff and external partners.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to bring new ideas to the team.

**Person specification**:
**Job Specific criteria**:

- Experience of working flexibly and pro-actively in a very busy environment and to tight timescales;
- Experience with design, preferably within a branding or communications environment, using Adobe packages, specifically InDesign.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics.
- Advanced user of Microsoft packages, specifically Word and PowerPoint. to both use and improve document templates.

**Welsh language criteria**:
The language skills for this post have been assessed as follows:

- ** Listening**: Understand all spoken Welsh, including complex discussions (Level 4)
- ** Speaking**: Able to speak and engage in discussion at length, confidently and without prompting. (Level 4)
- ** Reading**: Understand most job-related routine and non-routine text when standard language is used (Level 3)
- ** Writing**: Able to write job-related routine and non-routine text (Level 3)

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £30,870, Welsh Parliament contributes £8,943 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Things you need to know**:
**Selection process details**:
**Interviews will be held in-person in Ty Hywel, Cardiff Bay on**: 6 and 7 August 2025

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

**Security**:
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**Medical**:
**Nationality requirements**:

- Open to UK nationals only.

**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principle