Visual Communication Designer - Federal - ( 230001XY )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that accomplishes operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 25,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our company stronger.

Your Opportunity

Are you ready to wake up every day feeling inspired, excited about your job, and do you like to be part of a winning team? Are you looking for an opportunity where you can work with and be inspired by amazing creative colleagues, make an impact on your community, gain valuable experience, and build your career? Meet Stantec. Ranked as one of the most sustainable companies in the world, the people we work with are cool, and we want you to have a future here.

Our people are at the core of everything we do. Driven by a culture of inclusion, we offer dozens of employee resource groups, growth opportunities, and flexible work arrangements. We understand that the tools for success look different for everyone, and we’re committed to providing each employee with the support and flexibility they need to thrive.

We’re looking for a full-time Visual Communication Designer to join our team supporting our Federal Programs. This position applies practical knowledge to promote the vision of the company through high-quality graphic content. The ideal candidate will have a passion for nitty gritty details —an energetic team player who can communicate effectively, manage multiple projects at the same time, and thrive in a deadline-driven environment.

If this sounds like your perfect role, we would love to hear from you.

Role Overview

In this role, the Visual Communication Designer manages graphic design tasks, refining projects and drafts, and generating creative ideas. The role includes collaborating directly with a larger team of marketing professionals to artfully develop and execute new visual concepts within our existing visual framework and partners with key stakeholders to establish Stantec’s position in multiple target markets. The heart of this position consists of the following three core responsibilities. Brand Application: Elevate our brand to achieve creative and iconic design solutions; Design Discipline: Implement design best practices across disciplines; and Task Management: Coordinate with marketing and design peers to complete all tasks efficiently. The Visual Communication Designer is an ambassador of the brand and applies all three of these core responsibilities with equal importance.

The role also includes working with a larger Stantec team of Marketing, Business Development, Public Relations, and Communications professionals to build our brand awareness and identify market opportunities for top line growth.

Your Key Responsibilities

Brand Application:

• Create and execute a portfolio of design projects from templates and established design programs
• Ensures all work aligns with brand guidelines and overall design direction
• Thoughtfully incorporates feedback from internal clients and design and marketing leadership, and responds with several options
• Act as a marketing photography contact as required
• Ensure work is correct and consistently complete quality reviews of their work
• Use the Resource Library as an archive for all promotional/brand awareness projects

Design Discipline:

• Actively collaborates and participates in the design team; design meetings, professional development, design peer partnerships
• Shares in-progress and completed work with design leadership for brainstorming and feedback
• Works with the design/marketing team to educate internal clients on brand guidelines and design best practices
• Conducts ongoing benchmarking to stay on top of industry trends, competitor branding and campaigns
• Share insight on the implementation of brand standards with the Director, Brand & Design

Task Management:

• Manage and complete all work on time, error-free; reporting status of projects to supervisors
• Coordinate with marketing and design peers, and supervisor to create a schedule of work
• Seek input proactively and engage others for contributions; conducting meetings to understand needs/scope of a project
• Organize tasks, prioritize, and successfully juggling multiple projects and priorities
• Expertly link short timeframes with high-quality work
• Move projects through production, liaison with external vendors if required (print, etc.)

Qualifications

Capabilities & Credentials

• Detail oriented and organized, with strong prioritization skills
• Ability to effectively balance conflicting priorities
• Commitment to client service and ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to effectively communicate with supervisors, peers, and clients, internally
• Ability to work effectively within a group as well as independently motivated with minimal supervision
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
• Working knowledge in digital design best practices, UX, Ceros, After Effects, XD an asset
• Awareness that ongoing training may involve professional development courses in the evenings or on weekends
• Available to work overtime to meet project deadlines on an as needed basis

Education and Experience

• Degree or diploma in Visual Communication Design
• Minimum 3-5 years of professional visual communication design experience in medium- to large-sized organization or design agency

Please submit a portfolio with your application

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay transparency laws require employers to provide the following information for positions that may be in the following jurisdiction(s):

Salary Range(s):

• $32.36 per hour - $46.92 per hour (CA, CO locations only)

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

Primary Location : United States-Colorado-Denver

Other Locations : United States-Kentucky-Louisville, United States-Maryland-Laurel, United States-North Carolina-Raleigh, United States-Kentucky-Lexington, United States-Missouri-St. Louis

Organization : BC-1986 Marketing & Communications-Corporate-US

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : May 2, 2023, 8:01:30 AM

Req ID: 230001XY

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans