Description:
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.
Are you the right person?
- A portfolio clearly demonstrating your ability to work effectively in the role: showing relevant design work, the process behind it, skills and experience.
- Information graphic design skills: the ability to create diagrams to visually explain complex information clearly.
- The ability to work with data and an understanding of dataviz techniques and which to use to most effectively present certain data and tell a story.
- Experience working either in a newsroom or other setting where you have been responsible for information graphic design
- Map design skills: the ability to create a variety of maps from simple vector-based country locator maps to (ideally) satellite image-based maps with overlaid data. An understanding of relevant production tools and processes.
- Visual Design skills, showing core abilities in type, colour, layout.
- Proven ability to design for scale and re-use, to think in systems and design beyond bespoke solutions.
- Expert skills in relevant design software and production tools.
- A passion for Infographics, News and storytelling.
- Ideally basic UX design skills and ability to use software such as Figma or XD.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Understanding of the importance of the BBC's values in accuracy and impartiality.