Graphic Designer - University of Florida

Graphic Designer - University of Central Florida

Requisition #: 675453

Location:

Orlando, FL, US, 32816 Career Area:
Food Service

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize InDesign skills to produce highly complex sales, operations, and internal support materials: flow-in text, insert pictures, apply style guides, page numbers, formatting, spell checking, etc. for a variety of documents.
• Expert Photo Shop skills to deliver slicks, brochures, internal communications, events, and other graphic design projects, as well as graphic design work requiring an advanced to expert level in Illustrator.
• Continually improve and demonstrate best practices to peers, clients, and organization.
• Gain clarification, approval, and feedback from clients on proposals and other materials.
• Assist in the integrity, coordination and organization of shared electronic files.
• Work with content and proofreading team to ensure proper grammar, message consistency, and brand voice for all documents.
• Ensure quality assurance for all documents and materials for assigned clients. Ensure corporate identity compliance, high-quality photographs, and accurate content. Maintain quality throughout draft, editorial, and production phases. Participate in production of documents as needed.
• May be required to work non-traditional work hours to accommodate workload and delivery of deadline-driven projects.
• Commitment to and consistent ability to meet project deadlines, while managing multiple client priorities.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• A positive, can-do attitude with a deep desire to constantly be looking to improve, better and grow the team.
• Expert project management skills, with the ability to multi-task while still maintaining quality of work and meet deadlines.
• Assignments are broad in nature and require efficiency, speed and consistency.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills with thorough attention to detail.
• Ability to think creatively and approach a wide variety of projects from new angles.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to manage up and down the organization.
• Skilled at research and the use of content management systems to find information and options for sellers.
• Exhibit strong customer service traits and has a proven record of high customer satisfaction feedback.
• Must be able to handle deadline pressures and multiple assignments and clients. Track record of taking a leadership role in proactively creating and maintaining timelines, updating team on progression and proactively following up on adherence to timelines, and performing work within specified response and turnaround times.
• Advanced to expert level proficiency in Photo Shop, plus a proven advanced to expert proficiency level with Illustrator. Premiere/After Effects (or similar motion graphic software), and/or web software (preferably Ektron or Flash or Web Ex recording) is a strong plus.
• Advanced knowledge Adobe Creative Suite with a superior command of InDesign as well as Microsoft Office with an emphasis on Power Point
• Must be comfortable in a PC format.
• General knowledge of Qvidian or another content management system a plus.
• Recent graduate to 3+ years of relevant professional experience. College degree in design, business, or communications, or comparable work experience. Coursework in advertising, marketing and graphics is desirable.
• Portfolio of relevant marketing or sales materials is required at interview stage.