Graphic Designer

Montana State University


Place Particulars
Place Info

Announcement Quantity STAFF – VA – 24266
For questions concerning this place, please contact: Ron Lambert
406-994-5128
[email protected]
Classification Title Media Mgr
Working Title Graphic Designer
Transient Place Overview The Graphic Designer will work with campus purchasers to grasp their wants and create strategic communications to assist them obtain their objectives. This place serves because the lead designer for vital college communication and advertising and marketing initiatives.
Place Quantity 4M1009
Division College Communications
Division College Communications
Appointment Sort Categorised
Contract Time period Fiscal 12 months
Semester
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FLSA Non-Exempt
Union Affiliation FOCUS-MFPE
FTE 1.0
Advantages Eligible Eligible
Wage $50,000 yearly, commensurate with expertise, schooling, and {qualifications}
Contract Sort Categorised Wage
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Recruitment Sort Open

Place Particulars

Normal Assertion The mission of College Communications is to reinforce MSU’s public picture, improve the general public’s consciousness of MSU’s accomplishments, and develop constant communications that construct our repute. College Communications manages the advertising and marketing, promotional, and licensing efforts of the college and helps and promotes MSU’s actions by knowledgeable and inventive communications. We offer a variety of companies to the college group by our operational models: Montana PBS, MSU Information Service, MSU Artistic Companies, MSU Internet and Digital Communications, College Advertising and marketing, MSU Public Relations, and College Printing. Our workers contains writers, editors, designers, photographers/videographers, social and information media specialists, publications specialists, advertising and marketing specialists, and net programmers.
This place is a part of the Artistic Companies staff, a unit of the Advertising and marketing staff inside College Communications. The Graphic Designer stories to the Artistic Director.
Duties and Obligations
  • Develop and create interesting branded visible supplies to advertise Montana State College to inner and exterior audiences. These supplies might embody printed publications, posters, banners, and different collateral materials, in addition to graphics for the net, shows, digital indicators and social media.
  • Handle a number of initiatives from begin to end, inside design specs and price range. Collaborate with different staff members, akin to writers, photographers, and social media and advertising and marketing specialists, who present content material.
  • Meet with purchasers to determine their wants and use Adobe Artistic Cloud design software program to finish and revise initiatives primarily based on shopper suggestions. The designer packages client-approved design information for printing and prepares digital information for publication on-line.
  • Preserve and replace the graphic library of the College’s model components, together with campus maps, main logos, model extensions and unit identifiers.
  • Function the lead designer for main MSU publications akin to recruitment supplies, government-related proposals, month-to-month publications in addition to growing suites of selling supplies for main occasions or college initiatives – it is a consultant listing, however not an exhaustive one. This course of contains collaboration with the inventive director, editors, writers and different campus professionals in the course of the design course of, gathering enter/suggestions, and making ready the ultimate information for print and to be used on the College’s web site. The designer can be answerable for creating different initiatives as assigned.
Required {Qualifications} – Expertise, Training, Data & Abilities
  • Bachelor’s Diploma in graphic design.
  • Three years {of professional} work expertise as a graphic designer of each print and digital initiatives.
  • Demonstrated expertise creating graphics and designs utilizing Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
  • Demonstrated expertise working as a member of a collaborative staff.
  • Expertise creating compelling branded designs to be used throughout all mediums akin to print, net/digital and social media.
  • Most well-liked {Qualifications} – Expertise, Training, Data & Abilities
  • An understanding of Montana State College and/or the upper schooling sector.
  • Potential to work with a broad vary of purchasers to assist them obtain their objectives.
  • The Profitable Candidate Will
    • Have a robust understanding of design rules, the usage of coloration and typography.
    • Be an knowledgeable in utilizing design software program, embody creating completed items utilizing offered written copy and choosing images or illustrations successfully. The candidate ought to have expertise correctly making ready a wide range of design mission information for print and for digital makes use of.
    • Perceive the function of branding in creating strategic advertising and marketing supplies.
    • Be dedicated to creating finest in school initiatives which might be accomplished on schedule.
    Place Particular Necessities/Further Info This job description shouldn’t be construed as an exhaustive assertion of duties, tasks or necessities, however a basic description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts Montana State College’s rights to assign or reassign duties and tasks to this job at any time.
    Bodily Calls for To carry out this job efficiently, a person should have the ability to carry out every important responsibility satisfactorily with or with out cheap lodging. The necessities listed above are consultant of the information, ability, and/or means required.
    This place has supervisory duties? No

    Posting Element Info

    Variety of Vacancies 1
    Desired Begin Date Upon completion of a profitable search.
    Place Finish Date (if short-term)
    Open Date
    Shut Date
    Functions can be: Screening of purposes will start on March 8, 2024; nonetheless, purposes will proceed to be accepted till an enough applicant pool has been established.
    Particular Directions
    Range Assertion Montana State College values numerous views and is dedicated to repeatedly supporting, selling and constructing an inclusive and culturally numerous campus setting. MSU acknowledges the significance of work-life integration and strives to be aware of the wants of twin profession {couples}.
    In compliance with the Montana Veteran’s Employment Desire Act, MSU offers choice in employment to veterans, disabled veterans, and sure eligible family of veterans. To say veteran’s choice please full the veteran’s choice data positioned within the Demographics part of your profile.
    MSU’s Non-Discrimination Coverage and Discrimination Grievance Procedures will be positioned on the MSU Web site: https://www.montana.edu/hr/recruitment/dualcareer.html

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