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Graphic Designer (Fixed Term Contract)

Ucl 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom

Hybrid $43,981 - $54,019 Full-time

The Graphic Designer will deliver creative design solutions that support UCL's brand, profile, and reputation across various channels. They will collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to develop concepts, storyboards, and final assets while ensuring brand consistency.

Responsibilities

  • Develop creative concepts, storyboards and production assets for campaigns, social, motion, web, print and events
  • Maintain and activate the newly refreshed UCL brand across faculties and external partners
  • Create tools, resources and guidance to enable consistent brand usage
  • Collaborate with internal teams, agencies, partners and suppliers on high‑profile projects
  • Contribute to brand training, guidance and communities of practice
  • Ensure designs are accessible, inclusive and align with UCL standards

Requirements

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating graphic design expertise
  • Experience with branding, typography, colour theory, layout and composition
  • Ability to take concepts from brief through production and delivery
  • Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA)
  • Experience across digital, social, print and environmental media
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Curiosity about emerging design trends and technologies

Benefits

  • 41 days’ holiday (including bank holidays and closure days)
  • Option to purchase additional annual leave days
  • Defined benefit CARE pension scheme
  • Cycle‑to‑work scheme, season‑ticket loan and immigration loan
  • Relocation support for eligible posts
  • On‑site nursery and gym
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Discounted medical insurance

Key Skills

Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) Figma Motion design tools (After Effects, Premiere) Typography Colour theory Layout and composition Brand guidelines implementation Digital signage design Print production Social media graphics Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) Stakeholder management Cross‑functional collaboration Creative storytelling Project management Attention to detail Communication Design thinking User‑centered design Adobe Acrobat for PDFs

About Ucl

UCL is a global university with over 50,000 students and 16,000 staff, known for research excellence and public engagement.

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