Summary
We have a rare opportunity to join us as a Digital Design Apprentice. There are two roles available: Digital Services Team or Hartree Centre Digital Creative Services Team. Work with experienced professionals using the latest technology to provide the most responsive and reliable multi-media services.
Annual wage
£23,186 a year
Incremental salary, increases each year of the apprenticeship
Training course
Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
4 years
Positions available
2
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Digital Creative Services team:
* Meet clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
* Estimate the time required to complete a job and update clients
* Develop design briefs that suit the client's purpose thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts and developing interactive design
* Use innovation to redefine a design brief within time constraints presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients
* Work with a range of media and keeping up to date with emerging technologies
* Proofread to produce accurate and high-quality work working as part of a team with printers, copywriters, photographers, other designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists
* Provide accessible design support to STFC
Hartree Centre:
* Under guidance from the eLearning Media Designer, ensure tasks are delivered to budget and on time
* Design digital and print content for online learning and live events
* Generating drafts and mock-ups of proposed designs for review and make revisions as requested
* Storyboard learning content based on media design principles
* Update and maintain the content, ensuring that it is accurate, version controlled, and quality assured
* Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to gain understanding of the suitable, engaging and interactive media designs for the courses addressing variety of target audiences
* Work collaboratively and iteratively with the Business Development, Stakeholder Engagement and the Research Teams for the production of media materials
Where you’ll work
Daresbury Laboratory
Keckwick Lane, Daresbury
Warrington
WA4 4AD
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Your training course
Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
* Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
* Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
* Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
* Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
* Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
* Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
* Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
* Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
* Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
* Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
* Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
* Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
* Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
* Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
* Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
* Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
* Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
* Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.
* Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
* Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
* Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
* Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
* Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
* Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
* Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
* Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
* Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
* Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
* Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
* Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
* Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
* Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
* Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
* Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
* Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
* Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.
Your training plan
* The Digital Design Apprentice will undertake professional development and training through a mixture of online and in-person teaching with Manchester Metropolitan University completing the Creative Digital Design Professional (Integrated Degree) Level 6 Apprenticeship
* The modules you will complete will develop in-demand skills in creative digital design
* In your final year, you will also complete your work-based project before undertaking your End Point Assessment. The End Point Assessment will include a presentation between the university and STFC, covering the work-based project, your approach, outcome and the skills, knowledge and behaviours demonstrated. This will be assessed as part of the overall project assessment
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will achieve:
* BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Design
* Creative Digital Design Professional Level 6 apprenticeship
More training information
There will be 18 days of teaching per year (3 days per unit), plus additional online touchpoints. attending in-person teaching at MMU’s ground-breaking school of School of Digital Arts (SODA).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade 4/C or above)
* Maths (grade 4/C or above)
A Level in:
* Any subject (grade BCC or equivalent)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* IT skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Customer care skills
* Presentation skills
* Team working
* Creative
* Initiative