Te Ratonga Whakatairanga | Marketing
Te Ratonga Ākonga me te Whakapā | Student Life, Services & Communications
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand
- Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
- Permanent Role
Āu Mahi | What You Will Do
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and creative graphic designer to join our team. The Digital Graphic Designer aims to support the University's digital presence and build our pipeline through delivering smart, effective, aesthetic, on-brand, and on-strategy creative graphic design services. You will create design solutions for the UC website, mobile apps, digital advertising, and key UC marketing projects. Your exceptional design support, to the variety of stakeholders across the University, will ensure consistency of brand and creative across all digital customer touch points.
Mōu | Who You Are
You will have a tertiary qualification or recognised qualification(s) relevant to the role, and demonstrated:
- digital graphic design skills with a strong portfolio
- knowledge of the latest digital graphic technology such as Photoshop, Illustrator or other visual design and wire-framing tools
- experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
- experience in managing stakeholder design expectations and working within organisational brand concepts
- experience in Māori design concepts, would be an advantage.
If you can work effectively in a dynamic and fast paced environment with a goal to achieve autonomy to recommend and subsequently develop the solutions yourself, we would like you on our team today!
Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With
You will work within the Engagement Portfolio who provide senior policy advice, direction and implementation to recruit and retain students and enhance the student experience for all student groups, ensuring that the diverse needs of students are at the forefront of all planning and decision making at UC. The team also exists to build the profile and reputation of UC as an outstanding, world class learning environment that supports the pursuit of excellence, attracts a diversity of talent and investment and continuously reinforces the value of UC qualifications and experience.
Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC
Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.
We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.
We offer a range of fantastic benefits including flexible work practices, study opportunities and generous superannuation and leave provisions. For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc . For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/
The closing date for this position is: 15 June 2025 (midnight, NZ time)
How You Apply
Applications for this position must be submitted on our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume. Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]
You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.
