Senior Graphic Designer

The Senior Graphic Designer reports to the Director of Web and Graphic Design. Responsible for ensuring the highest quality design of the College’s electronic and print publications, playing a key role in image development, brand management, and integrated marketing communications efforts across the entire College campus. This is a full-time, salaried position paying $60,000 - $65,000 annually. Duties and Responsibilities • Conceives of and designs major marketing communication pieces and prepares art for print . • Serves as illustrator and logo designer when required. • Prepares final electronic files for print or digital application. • Approves all freelancer designs before they are sent to the client to ensure quality standards and brand adherence. • Ensures that all design meets the highest level of graphic standards. • Ensures that all design reflects the brand, style, and image of Wheaton College. • Designs college print publications for clients across campus and prepares art for print. • Meets with clients to determine design needs and advise on overall strategy, design, feasibility, and production. • Sets publications standards campus-wide by monitoring overall graphic designs of projects, occasionally interacting and working with outside vendors as required. • Advise and train employees in campus departments who are developing print publications as to overall strategy, design, feasibility, and production. • Determines paper, type, and ink specifications. • Maintains competency of the Macintosh computer, scanners, printers, other peripheral hardware; and its software (Microsoft Word, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). • Maintains expertise in skills and knowledge of the latest print and graphics technologies, and evaluates tools for implementation of such methods. • Maintains expertise in troubleshooting Macintosh computers and peripherals. Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in art or graphic design. • Minimum of 7 years of experience in print design. • Proven excellence and creativity in the use of print graphics software, ie Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and other Adobe Creative Suite programs. • A team player with strong interpersonal skills. • Management experience. • Demonstrated ability to manage multifaceted projects, meeting deadlines with good planning and efficiency. Physical Requirements The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel, and to stand, walk, reach, bend or lift up to 10 pounds. FLSA Status –Exempt As a Christ-centered community, Wheaton College faculty and staff must affirm the College’s Statement of Faith as expressing their own theological convictions and agree to live by the moral standards in Wheaton’s Community Covenant, modeling these commitments for the Christian formation of our students. Wheaton College faculty and staff also support the Christ-Centered Diversity Commitment which highlights our desire to treat all individuals as equal image-bearers of Jesus Christ through diversity, inclusion, justice and unity.