Digital Designer

Kent County Council


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Maidstone
Contract type: Full time
Role Responsibility

Maternity Cover 9 months

Hybrid (remote & Maidstone, Kent)

Marketing, Communications and PR

Are you an enthusiastic digital designer who wants to make a difference and join a team creating high quality website experiences for Kent’s residents?

Do you have excellent digital design skills including Adobe Creative Cloud apps and especially Photoshop?

Kent County Council’s Marketing and Residence Experience (MRX) team are looking for an experienced digital designer to help us create visual content for the council’s website kent.go.uk

As an MRX Digital Designer, you’ll be working across the whole of kent.gov.uk, sometimes collaborating with our wider creative team and sometimes independently. You’ll be working to produce quality design and visual content across a broad range of services, audiences and issues.

We’re looking for someone who thinks ‘graphic and digital design for websites’ and is comfortable.

You Will Be Responsible For

Proposing graphic design concepts

Collaborating with other creatives and content creators to generate engaging visuals

Helping our services translate what they need into impactful design

About You

You have an excellent digital design portfolio, especially for websites

You love to collaborate and work as part of a team

You know how to present your work and the thinking behind it

You have excellent Adobe Creative Cloud app skills

You know how to create responsive, user-centric designs that meet accessibility and good practice standards

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

Please provide examples of your creative work when applying.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to present their portfolio at interview to demonstrate why they are best suited for the role.

Contact Details

For Further Information Regarding This Role, Please contact

Julian Scott ([email protected]) or call 03000 416657

About The Company

Work that works for you and us - let’s talk flexibility!

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Job Description & Person Specification

  • Digital Designer JD.pdf

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