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Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" – an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.

Unit overview

The Western Communications team provides strategic advice to university senior leadership, faculty, staff and teams of internal and external communications staff across Western in order to build the university’s brand on a local, national and global scale.

Responsibilities

The Brand Designer will be a lead brand designer, responsible for conceptualizing, designing and executing innovative and compelling brand solutions that bring the brand identity to life, enhance the University’s reputation, and communicate ideas that inspire, inform and captivate key audiences.

The role will deliver integrated brand design for highly visible national and international channels, including online, print, out of home, interactive digital, and on-campus experiences. The Brand Designer will maintain and enhance Western’s brand identity standards, develop and optimize brand design templates, and provide consultation, best practices and guidance to other designers. The Brand Designer will have an overall goal of advancing the University's reputation through progressive and engaging brand design.

Ideal candidate

The ideal candidate will have a degree or diploma in graphic design, visual communications, or a related discipline, along with several years of experience in brand design, preferably within a complex or multi-stakeholder environment.

They are a creative and progressive designer with an ability to think big, take risks, and bring out of the box solutions. They have a strong understanding of design fundamentals including layout, typography, application, and color theory.

They bring a strong ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, excellent communication skills to effectively convey design processes, ideas, and solutions and are proficient designing with Adobe Creative suite of software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe XD & After Effects.

The successful candidate is detail-oriented, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of quality. Experience supporting large brands, postsecondary institutions, or mission-driven organizations is considered an asset.

Western values diversity

The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Western is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation, and persons of any gender identity or gender expression.

Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please contact Human Resources at hrhelp@uwo.ca or phone 519-661-2194.

Please note:

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. This position is an existing vacancy.

This is an 18 month temporary full time contract opportunity with a benefits package. The base salary will be $66,350 - $94,700 per annum. Starting salary will be aligned with the successful candidate’s experience, skills, and demonstrated qualifications.