Graphic Designer in Exeter

Love great design? Thrive on variety? Ready to see your work everywhere? We are looking for a bold, brilliant designer to join our award‑winning Marketing and Communications team at Exeter College. This isn’t a role where your work disappears into a folder; it’s front and centre. From eye‑catching prospectuses and dynamic digital campaigns to large‑scale campus graphics, your creativity will help shape how thousands of learners experience the College.

You’ll be the visual guardian of our brand, leading design across the College and its sub‑brands, turning ideas into polished, audience‑focused creative that works. One day you might be concepting a major recruitment campaign; the next, refining signage, social assets or advertising artwork. Variety is guaranteed.

This is a fully on‑site role at our Hele Road campus. We believe the best ideas happen when creative people collaborate in person, sharing energy, feedback and the occasional coffee‑fuelled breakthrough.

We’re looking for someone with a strong portfolio, serious Adobe skills and the confidence to guide colleagues through the creative process. You’ll need to be organized, resilient under pressure and have a genuine appetite to keep evolving your craft.

In return? High standards, high trust and high reward. You’ll benefit from a generous holiday allowance, generous pension contributions and a wide range of additional employee benefits plus the chance to be part of a friendly, ambitious team that takes pride in doing brilliant work.

While this is advertised as a full‑time position, we are ultimately looking for someone who shares our ambition to take the team from outstanding to exceptional. We will therefore consider applications from candidates seeking a minimum of 30 hours per week. Please clearly state your preferred working hours within your supporting statement.

Ambition, Collaboration, Energy These are our values.

Benefits We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding.

Applying for the role Please include a link to your digital portfolio within your supporting statement so we can see your work. Following the closing date, applications will be shortlisted. If you’re successful at this stage, you’ll be invited to complete a design task. A further round of shortlisting will then take place, with selected candidates invited to attend an in‑person interview.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

Closing Date: 19th April at midnight. Interview Date: Thursday 30th April. No CVs or agencies please.

Everyone is welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre‑employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, amended 2013 and 2020) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.