5 Media / Design jobs in Barri, Bro Morgannwg - The Vale Of Glamorgan

Reporting to the Design Director, Nations, the role will manage the Wales based design team to develop, oversee and deliver content, ensuring that it achieves the highest creative and editorial standards with adherence to BBC guidelines. The Creative Director drives the strategic and creative vision to make innovative design and technological solutions by leading and inspiring the team, maximising the skills sets to meet the business and audience needs across platforms and languages. Main duties include:

• To with software including Adobe Creative Suite and VizRt to produce distinctive content on a variety of platforms.
• Be a thought leader: A senior point of expertise on design issues, industry trends and developing technologies. role model to designers in the team.
• Seek improvements in design production to develop further innovative storytelling practices for multiplatform.
• Line manage and recruit staff, including regular catch-ups, appraisals, professional development and managing of performance, in order to develop a world-class design team.
• Accountable for the delivery of content, acting within BBC editorial, legal and health and safety guidelines.
• Use strong stakeholder partnerships to share information and best practice, maintain consistent standards in the overall style, guidelines, branding and design of content to deliver on strategy.
• Be responsible for creating a positive working environment for colleagues from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.
• To work effectively with other departments, suppliers and partners (internal and external) ensuring the BBC maintains excellent relationships throughout.
• To work closely with the Creative Directors in Scotland and Northern Ireland to increase collaboration and best practice across the Nations Design Team
• Using audience analytics, lead a high performing team to continuously improve through design and technical solutions.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the department's strategy and policy.
• Assisting the Design Director with resourcing and budgeting for cost effective project delivery.
• Represent the department externally at national conferences, panels and industry events to ensure that the BBC's output is viewed as a leading innovator by the creative industry and audiences.
  
  Experience of a changing editorial agenda, demonstrating excellent communication skills in a pressurised environment with the ability to do your best work against tight deadlines. An advanced Adobe Creative Suite User with a love of moving graphics combined with a mission to explain complex issues to a wide audience and a portfolio of consistently great work demonstrating creative flair, a relevant degree or equivalent experience. You will need to demonstrate a passion for design and be interested in current affairs. A fascination with the technical side of studio production and digital workflows (on the job training will be given where needed) would be advantageous. Previous experience of managing a team is desirable but not essential.
You will be asked to submit a CV with links to a showreel by way of application for this vacancy. We would therefore encourage you to approach your CV as an application, and to tailor it to highlight the skills and experience which we've talked about in this advert. We'd love to know not only about your most relevant experience and responsibilities in previous roles, but also any achievements, transferable skills, or areas of personal or professional interest that highlight why you'd be a great candidate for this role. If called for interview there will be an aptitude test.

Nations Business Operations in Wales delivers all aspects of output for BBC Wales Cymru across television, radio, online and social. The Wales Creative Director sits in the newly formed Nations Graphics team who continually push the boundaries to create innovative and amazing content, from VR & AR graphics to clear and precise information style graphics. The role will deliver highly creative and hands-on graphic design solutions for editorial teams including News, Sport and Marketing across all platforms for the BBC as well as the Independent Sector., The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.