Senior Graphic Designer

Salary: £36,650 Per Annum

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Open Ended

Location: Polaris House, Swindon (Hybrid Working)

Grade: D

Closing Date: Friday 8 August 2025

Job Overview:

As a Senior Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we communicate with government, the general public and the research and innovation community. Your job will be to make sure our messages are creative, clear, accessible, and always on brand. With your experience, you’ll champion great design, collaborate across teams, and help deliver thoughtful, innovative solutions that support UKRI’s goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Simplify complex ideas, bringing them to life through creative, audience-focused design
• Ensure projects meet deadlines, budgets and objectives.
• Maintain brand consistency while innovating creatively
• Prioritise accessibility in all design work
• Stay updated on best practice, industry trends and continuous improvement

Person Specification:

Essential

• Good experience of utilising multiple and integrated channels, and an understanding of multi-channel communication approaches and the place of content development within this.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams, councils and communities
• Strategic thinking
• Excellent writing skills – demonstrable ability to work across a range of subject areas.
• Demonstrates credibility with relevant communities, usually based on experience from government, industry, education or the third sector
• Demonstrable emotional intelligence and tolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Resilience, multi-tasking and ability to work to deadlines.

For a full job description please click apply and visit our careers page.

Important Note:

If invited for interview, you will be asked to bring a portfolio of your work.

Benefits:

UKRI recognises and value employees as individuals and aim to provide a pay and rewards package that motivates staff to perform to the best of their ability. The reward package includes a flexible working scheme, a Career Average Revalued Earnings pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance as well as other benefits.

How to Apply:

Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role. Further information on how to apply and the selection process is listed on our careers page.

The closing date for applications is Friday 8 August 2025