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Your team: The Broadcasting Digital team are responsible for all video, social and web content created for our brands talkSport, Virgin Radio UK, TImes Radio, Talk and Piers Morgan Uncensored. Working closely with our editorial colleagues, this covers everything from long-form video features to short reactive clips and is essential in building our audiences and driving revenue. Your role: We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive designer to support our busy, creative team. Working closely alongside the producers, you will primarily be tasked with developing new identities for our social video franchises and creating in-show assets to work alongside these. As well as this you will assist the Head of Design with wider overarching brand development work and support for presentations and other ad hoc assets where required. Day to day you will:

• Work with the show producers to develop identities for show franchises
• Create bespoke assets and thumbnails for those shows
• Help develop motion stings and graphics for these
• Assist the wider team with ad-hoc design requests
• Work closely with the Head of Design on wider brand development of our key broadcasting brands
• Act as a brand guardian for our master brands when assets are rolled out
• Attend creative brainstorm sessions
  
  Passionate about design and the creative world around you, we need someone who comes with fresh ideas and pushes what we are doing creatively
• Experience working in a design agency or inhouse studio
• Proactive, restless and driven to get things done, we work fast!
• A lover of branding and typography
• Confident and knowledgeable about designing for social platforms
• Looking for a great office based working culture (we are all in 4 days a week)
• An interest in sport is useful (much of what we do is for talkSPORT) but not essential
• A working knowledge of after effects useful but again not essential
  
  News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include TalkTV, talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
Life at News Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year