Digital Designer at Online Education Services (OES)

Online Education Services (OES) partners with world-class universities to transform the lives of learners by increasing access to high-quality online education. With a vision to be the world’s most impactful enabler of education, OES combines academic expertise, cutting-edge technology, and a student-first approach to create innovative, student-centred programs. Operating across Australia, the UK, the USA and South Africa, OES is a fast-growing international business with a strong track record of collaboration and impact. Our ambitious, agile, and values-driven teams are united by a belief in the transformative power of education and a commitment to helping universities and students achieve their goals.

The Digital Designer is responsible for the design, development and production of visual and media assets in the learning materials created by the Learning Design team. This includes the development of multimedia assets including audio, video, graphics, illustrations, images, and interactive media solutions. All assets are aligned to the style and templates used by Learning Design team members and university partners. They will promote the visual consistency required throughout OES created learning materials.

The Digital Designer will work with members of the internal OES Learning Design team, to ensure that graphic design at OES represents a standard of quality and innovation that reflects current industry standards and trends, and contributes meaningfully to OES initiatives intended to reimagine online learning.

This position is a hybrid role based in OES’ Birmingham office (2-3 days per week).

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

The key contribution of the Digital Designer is to produce creative media content in collaboration with the Learning Design team and to strengthen the OES brand. This is achieved through:

• Design a range of templates for media, graphics, illustrations, learning materials, and interactive solutions that will enhance, extend, or augment OES learning products through a combination of multimedia, digital pedagogy, multiliteracies, and digital constructivism.

• Work with the OES Learning Design team to locate, identify, and exploit opportunities for the development of rich media experiences.

• Develop and distribute content-agnostic graphic templates for use by OES Learning Design team with a view to promoting rapid deployment of reusable graphic assets.
• Develop and strengthen guidelines in the creation of images, interactives and rich-media experiences that engage OES partners and students in the online environment.
• Creating customised visual experiences using a range of industry recognised pedagogy models.
• Working with the Lead/Senior Digital Designer to develop guidelines for the use of multimedia objects, including video, and images, to provide a consistent approach for standardised quality, storage, file sizes, dimensions, and application.
• Working with Digital Designers to ensure consistency and security regarding the storage, registration and access of graphic and multimedia resources, including internal OES media content and graphic templates.
• Work with the OES Technology team to design content pages and student experiences that support Learning Designers deliver pedagogy design purposefully to achieve the intended learning outcomes.
• Work with Learning Designers to define and develop content layout and solutions that can be configured and reused for purposeful design of learning experiences to industry standards.
• Working with the Learning Design team to audit and assess all produced graphic content with a view to ensuring that course materials are on brand, on style, and reflect the design standards established for the Learning Design team.
• Pursuing creative and reactive approach to learning design images which is aware of current trends, standards, and expectations in the broader eLearning industry, in the industrial, commercial, and academic sectors, and engaging with all internal and external stakeholders in order to develop approaches which empower the company to exceed them.
• Working with all internal OES staff to develop an ongoing enthusiasm for multimedia experiences and eLearning design work.

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Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Experienced in vector graphic and illustration creation with Adobe Illustrator
• Experienced in motion design with Adobe Premier Pro and After effects
• Video and audio editing with Adobe Premier Pro/Audition
• Image editing and production Adobe Photoshop
• Experience in designing for online, learner-centred, flexible education
• Experience in commercial, industry, or academic creative production environments, with demonstrable competencies in OES preferred products and technologies (including but not limited to the Adobe Creative Suite)
• Experience in product development and market readiness with an eLearning/academic focus.
• Demonstrated experience in innovative design methods and tools for online content delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to pursue innovative approaches to multimedia-rich interactive content development
• Demonstrated high standard of interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment
• An appropriate graduate tertiary qualification in education or relevant discipline would be highly regarded
• An appropriate graduate qualification in multimedia/graphic design (experience in educational environments would be highly regarded)

Benefits

• Global organisation focused on growth with lots of opportunities for our employees 
• Engaging & vibrant organisational culture 
• 35 hour working week, within a flexible working environment 
• OES values driven recruitment principles
• Career-life fit – health & wellbeing focus 
• 25 days of annual leave + Bank holidays 
• Purchased leave scheme 
• OES strategy reflects respect, honesty & diversity
• Continuous improvement through challenging & meaningful work 
• Study assistance and leave for eligible employees 
• High growth industry & strong partner/shareholder backing 
• Genuine focus on student success 
• Global mentoring program 
• We are proud to support the Living the Wage movement