Bentley University



Job Description Summary
The Marketing and Communications Division at Bentley University seeks an Associate Director, Digital Designer to join its Creative Services team, reporting to the Creative Director. The Digital Designer's primary "client" will be the University Advancement team, and their extensive engagement and fundraising efforts. This versatile designer will play a critical role by designing digital content on a variety of platforms (Anthology, Drupal 8, WordPress and more). This design profession will be expected to work on several projects simultaneously, meeting high design standards, following established brand guidelines and keeping up with design and development delivery schedules. The digital designer will work both independently as well as with other designers as well as advancement communications professionals, project managers and developers.

Essential Duties

Build, edit and maintain all advancement division web pages in Drupal 8

Oversee design for emails, digital invites, registration forms and confirmation emails in Anthology

Edit and maintain the university's capital campaign site in WordPress

Lead the redesign of advancement division's Support website in Drupal 8 and provide design direction to third party vendor platforms to ensure a visually consistent user experience.

Design all digital initiatives such as annual reports, e-newsletters, email campaigns, giving days, social media graphics and more

Serve on Bentley Magazine team and design online issue (2x per year), bring best practices to the online reader's experience.

Serve as key contact/collaborator with digital engagement team

Ensure responsive, mobile-first design

Keep abreast of industry trends and all applicable technologies, including security issues, authoring tools, graphic design tools, and new languages

Provide additional digital design capacity and expertise to creative services team as bandwidth permits

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree: required

Five + years of work experience in digital marketing and design.

Digital/online portfolio is required

Proven time management and client relations experience, ability to translate client needs into executable web designs and e-communication tools

Ability to create wireframes, recommend navigation and monitor user experience on all pages.Must be able to handle multiple projects in a high-volume environment

Ability to project manage multiple assignments concurrently

Detail-oriented, with strong written and oral communications skills

Proficiency with Excel, CSS, Drupal/CMS, Photoshop, and HTML preferred

Preferred Qualifications

Higher ed/fundraising work expereince preferred

Understanding of modern UX principles and component-based design

Prototyping in Adobe XD

Knowledge of Canva, Adobe Express for social media and branded templates

Ensure alignment with established university brand standards

Good sense of typography, design principles and visual trends

Work Environment

Typical office setting with extensive sitting and computer work

Ability to travel around campus for meetings and other work related events

Bentley University requires references checks and may conduct other pre-employment screening.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Bentley University strives to create a campus community that welcomes the exchange of ideas, and fosters a culture that values differences and views them as a strength in our community.

Bentley University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, building strength through diversity. The University is committed to building a community of talented students, faculty and staff who reflect the diversity of global business. We strongly encourage applications from persons from underrepresented groups, individuals with disabilities, covered veterans and those with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

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