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About the Role
Design motion graphics and animation, primarily for the Guardian’s sport social video team, to explain complex stories and ideas and engage audiences. This role involves working with journalists, producers, and designers to make complex reporting accessible and memorable.
Responsibilities
- Design motion graphics and animation for the Guardian’s sport social video team for use in videos published on and off-platform.
- Create bespoke audience-focused motion graphics and explanatory animations for video productions across digital journalism.
- Create graphics templates for video producers and maintain existing brand graphics and template assets.
- Maintain and develop consistent high standards of design, Guardian style, brand, and visual reporting.
- Liaise with video producers, multimedia editors, sport editors, journalists, social video producers, art directors, designers, and developers.
Requirements
- Demonstrable professional experience creating high-quality motion graphics and animation.
- Ability to translate ideas into engaging, dynamic visual storytelling using typography, colour, composition, and brand.
- Demonstrable interest in visualising data and explanatory design.
- Understanding of how to use animation/motion to simplify complex topics.
- Experience developing new video formats, styles, and guidelines (e.g., explainers, news video, documentaries).
- Experience working collaboratively with video producers, designers, and editors.
- Comfortable with practical aspects of video production, from concept to post-production, including sound and music incorporation.
- Experience working in a newsroom is an advantage.
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role.
Skills
- Motion graphics design
- Animation
- Visual storytelling
- Typography
- Colour theory
- Composition
- Brand guidelines
- Data visualization
- Explanatory design
- Video production
- Post-production
- Sound design
- Music integration
Location
- Kings Cross
Work Type
- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Internal staff secondment
- 9-day fortnight
- Regular weekend working
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- Starts from £47,731
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of leave
- Generous pension scheme (5% employee contribution matched with 8-12% employer contribution)
- Two volunteering days annually
- Option of payroll giving
- Season ticket loans
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Eye tests
- Optional dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policies
- Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- A diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism.
- Holds power to account.
- Comprised of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
- Committed to making a difference.
- Offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development.
- Focuses on training, growth, and fostering an inclusive culture.
- First major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- Actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- All roles are open for everybody to apply.
- Support throughout the recruitment process, including providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process.
- Job share applications are welcome.