Senior Creative Partner (Multimedia designer)

INTRODUCING THE ROLE

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We’re recruiting for a senior multimedia designer (Senior Creative Partner) to join our team and play a vital role in our creative, storytelling-led approach.

Whether you’re building brilliant visual multiplatform campaigns, designing reports, creating motion graphics or explainer animations, you'll develop inspiring content that helps us inspire change.

You must have at least four years’ (or equivalent) demonstrable experience to be considered for this role.

This is a senior role, so you will be involved in every part of the creative process, including research, engagement, concept development, and creative production.

Working effectively is an enabler to creativity too, so you’ll help us maintain our Business Process Document, which is a key part of our drive to be consistent and efficient.

You will also be hungry – very hungry – to learn more, acquire new skills and knowledge because we’re a dynamic team that never stops moving forward.

Speaking of our team, when it comes to creativity everyone is an equal. Nobody has a monopoly on ideas or wisdom.

We’ll need you to help us make sure we live our values, and create the right environment.

Your growth and development matters, too. You’ll take part in our Performance Framework, which is our way of assessing what makes a brilliant outcome for our clients, the business – and you!

You’ll work with our Creative Director to evaluate your performance, set realistic development objectives. In return, we’ll reward commitment and excellence for the part you play.

Depending on your progress you’ll be able to earn an additional bonus – one of two we offer annually.

One important thing to know is that we work full time from our office base in Livingston. We passionately believe in and see the power of working together collaboratively in a creative environment. For this role we require you to have a full driving licence and car.

We’re confident that if you join our team then you’re in for an amazing adventure in a place where you can be yourself, flourish and be fearless knowing that we’ve got your back. Ready to find out more? Let’s go!

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KEY HEADLINES

Team: Creative

Reports to: Creative Director

Contractual status: Permanent, full time

Salary: £36-40k DOE (plus £30 for mobile per month)

Profit share: Annual (awarded March, paid May)

Personal bonus: Performance related (awarded November, paid December)

Wellbeing (includes):

• Half-day off every month (Friday, by rotation)
• £32 wellbeing payment per month
• Specialist counselling services

Pension: Employee / employer contribution via Nest

Location: 1C Alba Pavilions, Alba Business Park, Livingston, EH54 7HG

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WHAT YOU'LL BE DESIGNING

Let’s talk about some of the types of creative you could be designing, because it’s a broad skill set we’re looking for:

Editorial – Reports, white papers, direct mail, slide decks, brochures, presentations

Digital – Websites, email marketing, social media (including static and motion Reels)

Out of home – Multichannel digital and print

Brand – Visual ID, colour, font, icons, brand elements, guidelines, templates (including Canva)

2D animation – Vector-based illustration, storyboarding, build and motion (After Effects)

Film / video – Some editing, provision of lower thirds, on screen graphics or end stings

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ROLE PROFILE

Creative development

• Research and develop strategic, creative campaign ideas in collaboration with our team and people with lived and living experience
• Support the development of campaign concept planning and ideas, including visual approach
• Interpret briefs and (sometimes complicated or lengthy) copy

Creative production

• Use Adobe Creative Cloud to design a range of striking static and motion assets with exceptional attention to detail
• Work with different types of brand guidelines and style requirements
• Ensure content is accessible based on client requirements – but usually between AA and AAA (WCAG guidelines)
• This includes use of reader technology in PDF documents
• Optimise and size content in various formats
• Support delivery in our Electrify Academy programme, by sharing your creative expertise and delivering some courses (with other colleagues)

Project / campaign management

• Follow tasks set out in our project management system; where relevant, plan tasks for others in a collaborative way
• Proactively maintain positive client relationships
• Working collaboratively with our comms team to develop effective delivery plans such as content grids

Evaluation & reporting

• Identify new creative trends, evolving technology and set out on improvement paths
• Prepare presentations for clients to report on progress or to deliver new ideas
• Support our own social media channels and website by creating or repurposing imaginative, high quality content
• Willingness to embrace new challenges and learn new skills
• Support our pro bono work with our local secondary school as part of our Community Engagement programme

This profile, and the types of design you may undertake, are not exhaustive. This role may require the fulfilment of other activities for the company from time to time.

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ATTRIBUTES

Intuitively creative and diverse in approach and style

You’ll have a thirst for ideas, and a commitment to pushing boundaries – you’ll ‘get it’ (if you know, you know!)

Bold in your ideas

We want people who are brave, and who will have the confidence to speak up. When it comes to creativity, everyone is equal at Electrify

Attention to detail

You’ll be forensic in your approach from understanding the brief through to creative execution. Everything leaving us has to be brilliant

Phenomenally well organised

We believe that being organised, great at time management, and good at prioritising is a key enabler to creativity. Being organised is vital to us

A problem solver

We’re storytellers, regardless of our role and so working out effective ways to tell a story, often requires moving jigsaw pieces around to find the best way

Comprehension / decoding

You’ll be able to take briefs, read them, understand what the message is, and find great ways to respond to them. Great English skills are vital

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LEARN ABOUT US

You can find out more about us by visiting our website and YouTube channel.

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OUR VALUES

Energetic – we work really hard, and go over and above; we don’t settle for solutions that are easy when we believe there are better ways to do things

Committed – when stuff needs done, we do it. None of us are afraid of working really hard to make every project a success. This is a place where sleeves are rolled up

Honest – our team are highly experienced, and so we’ll always give you our best advice, challenging you when we feel it’s needed, so we can ensure a brilliant outcome

Kind – without kindness you have nothing. Everything we do should be done with kindness in mind and so we’re sure that you’ll see that when you work with us!

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OUR VIEW ON QUALIFICATIONS

You may have relevant qualifications in multimedia or content creation, but that’s not the most important thing for us – and it is not how we decide who to meet or offer any role to.

What’s far more important for everyone at Electrify is personality and character – as well as a great

track record in delivering for the role you are applying to.

When we meet candidates we ask them to tell us about their experience, and try to relate it to what

we’re looking for. The more practical you can be, the better.

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HOW TO APPLY

Sound like the perfect next step for you? Move fast because we’ll hire as soon as we have the right candidate!

Here’s what we need you to send us:

• A covering note (email is fine), introduce yourself, and tell us what you love – and what you’re good at!
• A copy of your CV – we strongly advise you tailor it to this role
• A link to at recent examples of your work – please include any background information you think we should know

Get everything across to us via:

Our directors Lauren & Lawrence are happy to discuss the role and answer any questions you have. Please drop them an email via the same address.

Please note

• We will reply to every application
• We will close applications as soon as we are satisfied that we have high quality candidates to be interviewed, therefore there is no closing date; please apply as quickly as possible!
• Interviews will take place face to face at our offices in Livingston – it is unlikely we will hold more than one interview stage