Senior Designer

Job Title:

Service Designer

Salary: £29,700 – £38,550

Location:

Cambridge, UK

Contract:

Fixed-term (1 year maternity cover)

Hours:

Full-time, 35 hours per week

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Designer to join our Design team. The Design team are at the heart of defining the Cambridge aesthetic by supporting our book cover and text design in Academic.

The role sits within our Books Content Operations team and balances technical and creative skills in book publishing. The primary responsibilities of the role are checking cover images for suitability, commissioning a range of covers from freelance designers and agencies and ensuring our quality and technical standards are upheld. A senior designer would also be expected to manage and support on high profile areas of design such as text design, higher education textbooks and/or trade titles.

There would be opportunity for development into applied cover design for interested and suitable candidates. We encourage continuous improvement across our department, and as a team make recommendations for improving processes and ways of working collaboratively.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Commission and manage cover design projects from brief to delivery.
• Review artwork for quality, brand consistency and technical accuracy.
• Lead design for high-profile titles and key publishing programmes.
• Contribute to design standards, process improvements and best practice.
• Support and mentor colleagues within the Design team.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About You
You are creative, proactive and can organize your time well to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines. You are an excellent communicator who canexpress your thoughts and ideas clearly, honestly and respectfully to other members of the design team as well as the wider department.

You must be able to keep accurate records on work in progress and learn how to use new systems quickly. You will have strong skills with Adobe Creative Suite software (particularly Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator), evidence of technical and aesthetic designskillsand qualifications or relevant experience to prove these capabilities. Ideally, you will have aninterestin and awareness of the Academic publishing industry.

Knowledge of printing and manufacturing specifications and digital specification knowledge is desirable but not essential.

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

• Experience in academic, educational or trade publishing.
• Experience commissioning and managing freelance designers or agencies.
• Experience of book cover and/or text design.
• Knowledge of print production and digital publishing specifications.
• Awareness of current publishing and design trends.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

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