Designer
- Recruiter
- Reach plc
- Location
- Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
- Salary
- Competitive plus benefits
- Posted
- 18 Sep 2017
- Closes
- 25 Sep 2017
- Ref
- TMG/TP/59077/5830
- Contact
- Kate Derrick
- Sectors
- IT, Web Design
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
The Trinity Mirror Data Unit, a multi-award winning data journalism team serving titles across the country, is looking to recruit a Designer to take part in a new print-based project.
The successful candidate will be creating innovative, and compelling words and visualisations on a range of subjects for both daily and weekly titles.
Package
Trinity Mirror plc has a strong benefits package, which includes, for this role, a competitive base salary, 25 days holidays plus Bank holidays, a competitive pension along with an extensive flexible benefits portfolio (to be discussed at interview).
Trinity Mirror plc is committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.
Main Responsibilities
- Working with a dedicated Data Journalist to conceive and design graphics and visualisations for regional and weekly print titles across the Trinity Mirror group.
- Developing graphical templates that can be adapted and used by titles across the group.
- Advising and aiding other members of the data unit on visualisations, and tools and graphics for web and/or print.
- Working on the data unit's wider output, for print and web, as required by the head of data journalism.
Ideal Candidate
- First-rate design skills
- Experience of, and high degree of ability with, design software including all elements of Adobe Creative Suite (in particular Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)
- Numerical literacy and an understanding of the principles of data visualisation
- Presentational flair
- An ability to communicate complex ideas in a bold, clear and visually interesting way
- An interest in current affairs, and an understanding of the needs of a tabloid audience.