Visual Communications Designer - Inspiring Futures for Zero Carbon Mobility (0.3FTE, FTC)

10.5 hours per week, available immediately until 31.07.2029

Would you like to be part of a major collaborative research initiative to help tackle transport’s contribution to the climate crisis? 

Are you looking to apply your visual communications skills and experience to a new challenge? 

Do you thrive on working in an exciting and creative environment committed to making a difference?

Inspiring Futures for Zero Carbon Mobility (INFUZE) is a major £7.8m five-year research grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Working across the Universities of Leeds, Lancaster and the Royal College of Art, INFUZE is seeking to achieve transformative change in how transport works, addressing the climate challenge whilst improving fairness and quality of life. INFUZE is an exciting new collaboration which will work with citizens and businesses to re-imagine our transport systems. The programme will build an increasingly ambitious suite of real-world trials with communities, transport providers and government partners. 

INFUZE seeks a creative and passionate Visual Communications Designer to contribute to our ground breaking work in transforming urban mobility systems and experiences. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support the communication design of the globally significant 5 year community-led sustainable mobility design research project centred in and around Leeds. While regular visits to the team are expected, the postholder is not required to be based in Leeds or London. 

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven visual communications design skills, in particular, articulating academic and technical information to the public. 
• Proven track record of effective visual design across physical and digital media including publications, workshops, exhibitions and websites. 
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills with a high degree of tact and diplomacy, able to deal with the public, internal and external contacts, and senior academic staff, appropriately.
• High proficient IT skills and digital literacy including productivity suites (Microsoft Office, Google for work), the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, and other video, animation and web-based design tools.
• Strong understanding of typography, layout and visual communication principles
• Creative problem-solving skills and a passion for using design to address complex challenges
• Ability to be forward thinking and offer strategic insight for visual communication design.
• A good knowledge of accessible design, and how to produce inclusive materials

Please see Information Pack for further details.

This role closes for applications at 11.59pm on Sunday 9 March 2025

Interviews are expected to take place Wednesday 19 March 2025

RCA Benefits available here: https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/work-at-the-rca/staff-benefits/

The Royal College of Art (RCA)  aims to foster an inclusive culture which promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a working, learning and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its staff and students and stakeholders are respected. 

We recognise the broad range of experiences that a diverse staff and student body brings and how this  strengthens our research and enhances our teaching. In order for RCA to remain a world-leading institution we are committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles throughout all of our processes, from application through to appointment.

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