Creative Artworker

Location: Hybrid with 1-2 days per week in our Bradford office
Salary: up to £28,000 depending on experience

Full-time, Permanent, 37.5 hours p/w

Join our Communications and Marketing team as a Creative Artworker, where your technical expertise and creative flair will help bring our design ideas to life. This is a unique opportunity to shape compelling visual content for advertising, print, and digital channels, all while adhering to our brand's identity and values.

If you're detail-oriented, thrive under deadlines, and want to play a pivotal role in producing exceptional creative work, we’d love to hear from you!

The Role

As a Creative Artworker, you will be the bridge between design and production. Your role is to ensure the seamless execution of creative concepts, transforming design ideas into print-ready and digital materials. You'll work closely with designers, stakeholders, and production teams, bringing your technical expertise and attention to detail to every project.

Key Responsibilities

Artworking & Production:

Prepare print-ready files, ensuring accurate bleed, crop marks, and colour formats (CMYK/Pantone).
Create optimized digital assets for web, social media, and other online platforms.
Adapt creative designs into multiple formats and dimensions while maintaining design consistency.

Brand Compliance:

Ensure all artwork adheres to brand guidelines, reflecting the tone, style, and visual identity of the organization.
Tailor designs to meet the specific needs of our diverse customer base.

Workflow & Quality Control:

Manage workload effectively, meeting tight deadlines and keeping stakeholders informed.
Conduct proofreading and quality checks to deliver flawless final outputs.

Collaboration:

Work closely with designers and team members to interpret and refine creative concepts.
Provide creative input and technical solutions to enhance project outcomes.

About You:

Qualifications & Experience

Educated to A-level or equivalent through relevant training.
Evidence of continued professional development.
Proven experience in creative artworking across advertising, print, and digital media.
Skills in managing workflows and delivering to tight deadlines.
Proofreading and quality control expertise.
Experience in video production and editing is desirable but not essential.

Practical & Technical Knowledge

Adobe Creative Suite Expertise:

Photoshop: Image editing, retouching, and optimization.
Illustrator: Vector graphics, illustrations, and logo adjustments.
InDesign: Layout design for brochures, reports, and other print materials.

Artworking Processes:

Preparing print-ready files with accuracy.
Creating digital assets optimised for various platforms.

Planning & Organisation:

Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.

Communication & Influence

Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with designers and stakeholders.
Clear and professional communication to ensure project success.

Why Join Us?

A dynamic and creative work environment.
Opportunities for professional growth and development.
The chance to make an impact on high-profile projects.

Please note that we may close the advertisement early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
Mental health support
Flexible working options
Access to online GP appointments

Finance

Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
Quick and easy pension transfer service
Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

Ongoing personal and professional development programme
Leadership Pathways online learning resources
Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £28,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discount
Health & wellbeing programme
Store discount
Work from home

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
No weekends

Application question(s):

Have you previously worked in a role where you were responsible for preparing production-ready artwork?
Are you proficient in using Adobe Creative Suite programs such as InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop for artwork creation and file preparation?
Do you have experience working with brand guidelines to create or adapt designs for various formats?

Education:

A-Level or equivalent (required)

Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bradford BD1 2ST

Application deadline: 12/01/2025
Reference ID: SYS-36615

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