Middle-weight Graphic Designer - Support Functions
Tony Blair Institute For Global Change 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves shaping concepts from briefs, delivering production-ready files, and creating various design assets for publications, presentations, and events. The designer will collaborate with multiple teams and manage timelines and project communication.
Responsibilities
- Concept to delivery: Shape concepts from ambiguous briefs; present options with clear reasoning; iterate quickly; deliver production-ready files
- Publications & editorial: Typesetting and long-form layout; image research; export setup and pre-flight
- Presentations & pitch decks: Create branded, polished presentations for internal and external use
- Data visualisation & information design: Build accurate, readable charts and diagrams; document sources; apply clear labels and accessibility standards
- Social & digital assets: Design platform-native creative for social media; maintain agile templates; collaborate with Video on complex assets
- Events & live delivery: Develop event visual identities and collateral; prepare specs; liaise with suppliers; support on-site/real-time amends
- Brand & visual identity: Apply and evolve the brand; create and update identity toolkits; maintain Figma libraries, components and documentation
- Motion & animation: Produce light motion in After Effects; collaborate with Video on larger pieces
- UI & digital product: Contribute to user journeys, wireframes and UI mock-ups; support component systems; basic CSS knowledge desirable
- Project communication: Run regular check-ins; manage timelines, risks and approvals; keep files well organised and easy to hand over
- Continuous improvement: Improve templates and systems; share useful tools and plug-ins; use AI tools appropriately to speed production
Requirements
- 3-5 years' professional experience in graphic design
- Equivalent portfolio spanning publications, data viz/information design, social, events and brand systems
- Advanced typography and layout skills
- Information design and data literacy
- Multi-channel craft across print, digital and event/large-format
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Strong time management across multiple concurrent briefs
Key Skills
- Advanced Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Acrobat)
- Advanced Figma (components, styles, libraries, prototyping)
- Proficient Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Desirable: Data-visualisation tools (e.g. Flourish)
- Desirable: Blender (basic), basic CSS, awareness of HTML/CSS constraints
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on impactful, global storytelling
- Collaboration with senior stakeholders
- Diversity of background and perspective
- Culture that values and nurtures difference
- Unlocking potential, not only for the countries we work in but also for each of our team members
About Tony Blair Institute For Global Change
We are the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. We work with political leaders around the world to drive change, helping governments deliver for their people by turning bold ideas into reality. We do it by advising on strategy, policy and delivery, unlocking the power of technology across all three. And by sharing what we learn on the ground, so everyone can benefit. We do it to build more open, inclusive and prosperous countries for people everywhere. If you believe politics done well has the power to transform lives, we invite you to join us. Together we can build a better future.
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