Graphic Designer

**This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract position.**

Join our Communications team as a Graphic Designer and be at the forefront of our exciting in-house design expansion This 12-month fixed-term role offers a chance to showcase your skills, with the potential to make a lasting impact.

**✍️ **What you’ll be doing**
- Create top-notch graphic design content aligned with Grand Union's brand.
- Collaborate with the Communications team to produce engaging content across various mediums.
- Navigate the creative process from concept to production, ensuring seamless execution.
- Develop publicity materials spanning posters, social media assets, brochures, and more.
- Drive accessibility in communications through animations and video content.
- Safeguard and promote Grand Union's brand integrity across all channels.
- Optimise cost efficiency by liaising with printers and suppliers for top-quality production.

***What we’re looking for**
- Graphic Design qualification OR proven experience.
- Proven track record in high-quality, engaging content across multiple mediums.
- End-to-end experience handling design briefs.
- Proficiency in motion graphics design.
- Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Animate).
- High IT literacy, especially with MS Office 365; project management understanding for efficiency.
- Experience of working in a customer-focussed organisation
- Experience of working in a communications environment
- Understanding and experience of digital and social media
- Understanding of housing associations
- Ability to understand the current issues facing Grand Union

*** **Perks of working at Grand Union**

️ Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service

Generous pension scheme - employer contribution up to 10%.

Extra day's leave for no sickness absence in the financial year.

Opportunity to buy/sell annual leave.

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

Paid emergency and compassionate leave.

Life assurance (2x salary).

Generous sick pay.

Free annual flu jabs.

Paid qualification.

Plus more - check out the full list of benefits in the attached document

Join us at Grand Union Housing Group, where growth and innovation shape our commitment to delivering excellence for our customers

Please note that we are not able to provide visa sponsorship for any of our roles. You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply. You are required to reside in the UK for the duration of your employment and must be able to provide evidence of your Right to Work.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

**Closing: 11 February**

**Phone screening: 16 February**

**Interviews: 21 February ‍**
- ️ NO AGENCIES, please.

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INDLOW

At Grand Union, we know that what we do matters. We build more homes, stronger communities and better lives.

We’ve been in business for over 25 years and provide 12,500 homes for more than 27,000 people across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire. We’re an £86 million turnover social business with 400 staff.

Our mission is **more homes, stronger communities, better lives**. We build affordable homes, provide personal support, and help people to learn, work and be healthy.

We’re a financially stable and innovative not-for-profit organisation that believes in partnership and collaboration. We plan to build 1,959 more new homes in the coming years to play our part in ending the housing crisis.

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