Statewide IL - Graphic Designer Associate

Statewide IL
- Graphic Designer Associate

Hiring Department: Division of Specialized Care for Children

Location: Springfield, IL USA

Requisition : 1042331

FTE: 1

Work Schedule: Monday
- Friday 8am - 4:30pm

Shift: Days

# of Positions: 1

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Posting Close Date: 8/19/2026

Salary Range (commensurate with experience): $45,000 - $56,000

UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent "Best Colleges" rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities.

UIC has nearly 260,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

The position supports the organization's communications efforts by providing graphic design, maintaining documents and promotional materials, managing identity standards, assisting with posting online content, developing and editing multimedia content, and supporting various community outreach tasks.

• Designs and produces final artwork, graphics and layout for a variety of media (e.g., printed materials, organization reports, presentations, display materials, social media images, website pages, presentations and more), recommending appropriate formats, binding, paper, etc. for the appropriate use and audience while following accessibility best practices and organization identity standards.
• Maintains the organization's library of publications, forms, letters and other documents, making regular updates as needed, coordinating reviews of materials and keeping associated metadata up to date.
• Help with taking photos and editing images as needed and assist with maintaining, organizing and updating the organization's photo library and identifying photo needs.
• Support community outreach and internal recognition programs, including providing necessary logos and files for giveaway items and supplies and helping staff events as needed.
• In coordination with the Communications Manager and Multimedia Content Specialist, manage identity standards, including distribution of logo files and updating/revising logos as needed.
• Assist with adding, updating and replacing documents, files and other content on the organization's website and monitoring and posting content on the organization's social media channels.
• Coordinate the translation of the organization's publications, forms, letters and other documents and maintain documents in the requested languages.
• Serve as a resource for creating accessible digital content and helping remediate documents and other media as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Any one or any combination that equals thirty-six (36) months from the categories below:
  • Credit for progressively more advanced college or art-school course work that would lead to a major in graphic/visual arts communication and/or design
    • 60 semester hours equals 12 months
    • 90 semester hours equals 24 months
    • 120 semester hours or a Bachelor's Degree equals 36 months
  • Work experience and/or on-the-job training that provided knowledge of progressively more advanced, generally accepted principles, theories, practices, and methods used in graphic designs and their applications to visual communications problems that are/is comparable to the training provided in the programs such as graphic/visual arts communication and/or design
• Twelve (12) months of progressively more responsible work experience and/or training comparable to that performed at the Graphic Designer Assistant level of this series

A Master's Degree in visual design, with emphasis in visual arts communication or a closely related field, meets all minimum acceptable qualifications for the Graphic Designer Associate level of this series.

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro, and experience preparing print-ready, web-ready and accessible PDF files.
• Experience creating, updating,…