Creative Design Specialist Jobs

Job Responsibilities

• Ability and passion to stay current with evolving methods for designing engaging products and services. Should approach learning these areas with curiosity and enthusiasm.
• Develop and support a strong visual and written brand identity and brand personality for SCC across all platforms to drive meaningful engagement. Manage all creative initiatives, campaigns and produced collaterals, including advertising, video, photography, owned digital content, brochures, direct mail pieces, etc., to expand SCC’s visual identity and brand voice across multiple channels, internally and externally.
• Comfortable working within brand guidelines but also extending and enhancing the design language as needed to create more engaging and accessible designs. Take initiative with creative ideas and concepts.
• Serve as a creative consultant with external agencies and vendors to develop SCC-branded creative assets, collaterals, and scalable design/visual identity systems.
• Confident, self-starter, yet able to take feedback and direction from leadership.
• Possess an unmatched attention to detail and the ability to uphold and deliver work at the highest standards of quality.
• Art-direct and execute design solutions that uphold SCC’s visual identity, including recruitment material, advertising assets, demand and lead generation campaigns, videography, photography, and event promotions, following the branding guide exactly.
• Translate marketing objectives into clear creative strategies, meeting with individuals, departments, leadership as needed to manage and vet campaign strategies and creative solutions. Work collaboratively with cross-functional areas including marketing, website, digital, social media, public relations, and communications to ensure the SCC brand is maintained.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the Chief Marketing & Brand Strategy Manager, as well as the strategic communications team.

Minimum And Additional Requirements

• Have expert understanding of interaction design and graphic design principles, and can span multiple simultaneous projects
• As ociates Degree in Art and experience in graphics programs
• Demonstrate 3-5 years experience
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite
• Possess strong conceptual and visual communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ASANA
• Experience with animation

Additional Comments

Spartanburg Community College is committed to both effective business management and equitable treatment of employees. The College presents this policy statement as an embodiment of that commitment and will not discriminate basis of any status protected by federal or state law, which includes sex, race, color, religion, gender, genetic information, national/ethnic origin, age, veteran status, and disability. “On the basis of sex,” as used herein, includes pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation.

The College complies with the provisions of Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Higher Education Amendments of 1986; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; the South Carolina Human Affairs Law of 1972; and with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, as well as the ADA Amendments of 2008 (ADAAA).

Employees are our most valuable resource. Our policy applies to present and prospective employees in all personnel actions including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, classification/compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoffs, recall from layoffs, and educational, social, or recreational programs of the College.

Furthermore, when necessary, the College will take affirmative action to achieve its goal of equal employment opportunity to all. The Human Resources Department has the overall responsibility for implementation of the affirmative action plan. Responsibilities include development of specific goals and timetables, reporting progress to the Executive Leadership Team and to the President, and upon request, reporting progress to members of the Commission.

The affirmative action program is a temporary measure and will remain in effect until our goals are achieved. We expect the full cooperation of all managers, supervisors, and other employees in this program.