Description:
The News Design team is a multi-platform, multi-disciplinary team within BBC News.
We are responsible for the design and visualisation of a story end to end, across all platforms from our website and app to our flagship news broadcasts and social accounts. The team brings together digital designers, TV designers and developers to provide compelling visual coverage of the biggest and most significant stories.
The Junior Infographic Designer will work in this multi-platform landscape to develop and deliver design solutions that tell our stories through, diagrams, data visualisations, maps, and other information graphics, whilst ensuring their work meets the highest creative and editorial standards, with adherence to BBC guidelines.
Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.
Main Responsibilities
- Create maps, diagrams, data visualisations and other information graphics across platforms.
- Be comfortable working in an exciting, fast-paced news environment, usually within tight timeframes managing competing demands.
- Have good communication skills, able to communicate ideas and design decisions to others,
- Possess sound problem-solving techniques and the ability to explore creative solutions to design and storytelling problems.
- Work within relevant BBC design frameworks and collaborate with others to continue the development of this framework.
- Follow a human-centred approach, be the champion of the audience, constantly interrogating user data, to understand how people experience our content and how we can continue to improve this experience.
- Collaborate effectively with others ensuring you maintain excellent relationships throughout, whilst advocating for the user, design frameworks and our core design values.
- Be aware of editorial skills and processes related to infographics.
- Be able to manage your own time and workload.
- Support a positive working environment that considers the needs of a diverse team.
- Ensure our content reflects our diverse audiences.
- Keeping up to date with current and emerging industry trends, you’re proactive, curious and articulate, sharing ideas and experiences with the wider team.
- Be accountable for the quality of your work and ensure it meets intended purposes.
- Be accountable for the usability and accessibility of design deliveries for the broadest possible cross-section of users.