"Senior Graphic Designer"

Senior Graphic Designer

Company: Wheaton College

Category: Communications, Marketing, and Public Affairs

Type: Full-Time

The Senior Graphic Designer reports to the Director of Web and Graphic Design. Responsible for ensuring the highest quality design of the College’s electronic and print publications, playing a key role in image development, brand management, and integrated marketing communications efforts across the entire College campus. This is a full-time, salaried position paying $60,000 - $65,000 annually.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conceives of and designs major marketing communication pieces and prepares art for print.
• Serves as illustrator and logo designer when required.
• Prepares final electronic files for print or digital application.
• Approves all freelancer designs before they are sent to the client to ensure quality standards and brand adherence.
• Ensures that all design meets the highest level of graphic standards.
• Ensures that all design reflects the brand, style, and image of Wheaton College.
• Designs college print publications for clients across campus and prepares art for print.
• Meets with clients to determine design needs and advise on overall strategy, design, feasibility, and production.
• Sets publications standards campus-wide by monitoring overall graphic designs of projects, occasionally interacting and working with outside vendors as required.
• Advise and train employees in campus departments who are developing print publications as to overall strategy, design, feasibility, and production.
• Determines paper, type, and ink specifications.
• Maintains competency of the Macintosh computer, scanners, printers, other peripheral hardware; and its software (Microsoft Word, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop).
• Maintains expertise in skills and knowledge of the latest print and graphics technologies, and evaluates tools for implementation of such methods.
• Maintains expertise in troubleshooting Macintosh computers and peripherals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in art or graphic design.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in print design.
• Proven excellence and creativity in the use of print graphics software, ie Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and other Adobe Creative Suite programs.
• A team player with strong interpersonal skills.
• Management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multifaceted projects, meeting deadlines with good planning and efficiency.

Physical Requirements

The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel, and to stand, walk, reach, bend or lift up to 10 pounds.

FLSA Status – Exempt

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