Visual Content and Graphic Design Executive

Job Title:  Visual Content and Graphic Design Executive

Reporting to: Sales & Marketing Manager

Location:Griffith College Dublin

Job Type:Full-Time / Permanent

Job Summary:

In this role, you will work within a dynamic national marketing team, creating and promoting content that develops awareness, enquiries and applications from CAO, part-time and mature applicants for the College’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Based in a historic, city centre campus, this is an exciting position for an experienced and creatively minded candidate seeking to grow their skills and responsibilities.

The role provides dedicated content support to the College’s faculties as part of the College’s National Marketing Team.

The successful candidate will be required to optimise the faculties’ content on the Griffith.ie website and on all social media platforms. This will be achieved through developing a detailed content plan with heads of faculty and programme directors.

The Visual Content and Graphic Design Executive will develop outstanding online and offline content using existing assets such as videos, images, graphic design, news items, case studies, testimonials, photography, and animations. The role will also require the development of new content (such as videos and photography), identifying existing gaps in the College’s website offering, taking account of competitors and new trends within higher education as well as displaying previous graduates’ work and documenting the current student’s work in progress.

Job Responsibilities:

 

Content Creation:

• Ensuring that a wide range of faculty assets are used effectively on Griffith.ie - video, photography, animation, graphic design, case studies, testimonials.
• Sourcing content from award-winning alumni, learners, lecturers, staff and industry to effectively promote the College’s faculties.
• Creating original content for a variety of media formats, both digital and print.
• Documenting the work in progress of any significant student projects or events.
• Designing promotional materials and presentations.
• Working with photographers and design agencies to develop outstanding creative assets.
• Creating content for and arising from faculty events and exhibitions, including the college’s annual Creative Show.

Content Management

• Assisting with photography and imagery used on social media and the website.
• In collaboration with the Website Editor, planning, creating and implementing conversion-focused content for the website and CRM marketing.
• Auditing and analysing the creative faculties’ digital presence to maximise effectiveness.

 

Social Media

• Developing engaging content for Griffith’s faculties on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and LinkedIn via daily updating of an agreed content calendar.
• Ensuring content is designed to maximise awareness and interest from our CAO, part-time and mature learner audiences.

Minimum Education/ Experience Requirements:

• A degree in Multimedia, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Animation, or other relevant disciplines.
• 2-3 years of experience in graphic design, photography, image production, and video production, including shooting and editing

Key skills and attributes

• Exceptional graphic design layout and typography skills
• A keen creative eye, with strong photography and video production skills, including editing.
• Proven ability to engage diverse stakeholders effectively.
• Software skills in e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects or Premiere Pro.
• Portfolio requirement.
• The ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Good verbal & written communication skills and concept development skills.

About Griffith College

Griffith College is a welcoming, ambitious and people-focused institution where the quality of the working environment is shaped as much by the people as by the purpose. Across our campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, colleagues work in supportive teams where professionalism, mutual respect and collaboration are part of everyday life.

 

Founded in 1974, Griffith College is Ireland’s largest independent third-level institution, with a community of over 8,000 students across its campuses. The College delivers a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes across disciplines including business, law, computing, journalism, design and pharmaceutical science.

 

What sets Griffith apart is not only its commitment to high-quality education, but the culture that underpins it. Staff regularly speak about the strength of the relationships they build here, the trust between colleagues, the willingness to support one another, and the opportunity to contribute to an organisation that has meaningful impact on students from Ireland and internationally, working alongside people who genuinely care about what they do and who they work with.

Our Vision

‘To be recognised among the leading, innovative and socially enterprising of Ireland’s universities”

Why work for Griffith College?

• Competitive salary package
• Access to the College’s pension scheme
• Access to healthcare plans for employees and their families
• Enhanced maternity leave pay

• Flexible working arrangements in line with the College's remote working policy
• Access to ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, up to Doctorate level
• Subsidised College programmes to support career development and upskilling.
• Opportunities for staff mobility through Erasmus+ and other international mobility programmes

• Mental Health and Wellbeing supports available
• Free weekly yoga classes
• Access to onsite fitness equipment
• Availability of green space on campus, accessible to staff for sports and recreational activities
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Vibrant, multidisciplinary and multicultural learning environment
• Inclusive and diverse community
• Innovative and agile place to work
• Welcoming environment committed to both learner and staff development
• Staff discounts and offers from a wide range of retailers and service providers
• Preferential accommodation rates during the summer period for staff, and for friends and family of staff at Griffith Rooms
• Year-round staff social and wellbeing events, including BBQs, coffee mornings, wellness talks, EDI events, and more

• Onsite subsidised restaurant
• Free parking facilities
• Staff Social Club with regular events

 

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline of proposed areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing environment within the Faculty and the College.

Griffith College is an equal opportunities employer. Candidates must be eligible to work full-time for any employer in Ireland.