Graphic Designer

The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating high-quality visual communications that strengthen BSRIA’s brand, support marketing activity, and engage internal and external audiences. Working closely with the Marketing team and wider stakeholders, the role translates briefs into effective print and digital assets, ensuring all creative output is accurate, accessible, on brand and delivered to deadline.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Creative Design Delivery: Design engaging visual assets for campaigns, events, social media, websites, reports, brochures, presentations, email communications, advertisements and other marketing collateral.
• Brand Consistency: Apply and uphold BSRIA brand guidelines across all materials, ensuring a consistent, professional and recognisable visual identity.
• Brief Interpretation: Work with the Marketing team and internal stakeholders to understand objectives, audiences, messages and required outputs, turning briefs into clear and effective design solutions.
• Digital and Print Production: Prepare artwork for digital and print use, ensuring correct formats, specifications, quality checks and version control are maintained.
• Content Enhancement: Create layouts, infographics, icons and visual treatments that make technical or detailed information easier to understand and more visually engaging.
• Collaboration and Feedback: Collaborate positively with colleagues, respond constructively to feedback and revise designs to meet agreed objectives and quality standards.
• Project and Time Management: Manage multiple design requests, prioritise workload, communicate progress and deliver work within agreed deadlines.
• Creative Development: Keep up to date with design trends, accessibility principles, digital formats and relevant software developments to continuously improve creative output.
• Maintain organised design files, templates and image assets so that materials are easy to locate, update and reuse.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role.

Skills, knowledge and qualifications

• Degree, HND, professional qualification or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Creative Media, Marketing, Digital Design or a related discipline.
• A strong design portfolio demonstrating creative ability, brand application, layout, typography and experience across digital and print outputs.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in design software, digital content creation, accessibility, branding or related creative practice would be advantageous
• 2-3 years’ professional experience in a graphic design role (agency or in-house)
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Strong understanding of layout, typography, and visual storytelling
• Experience in video editing and animation is desired but not essential.

What BSRIA can offer you

• Workplace Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual gross reference salary
• Help@Hand – Online GP Support Services
• 26 Annual Holidays (pro-rata) and additional Bank Holidays
• Eye tests
• Electrical Vehicle Charging point in the car park
• Employee well-being: Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential service)

About BSRIA

BSRIA is a science-driven, independent organisation providing practical guidance and commercial solutions for the built environment. With 70 years of expertise, BSRIA delivers impactful insights through market intelligence, consultancy, testing, compliance, research, training, and instrumentation.

Committed to shaping the future of the built environment, BSRIA collaborates with industry leaders to drive innovation, sustainability, and efficiency. Its UKAS-accredited test facilities and expert consult- ants equip businesses and consumers with the insights and tools needed to create better buildings. Headquartered in Bracknell, UK, with offices in China and the USA, BSRIA supports a global network of organisations and corporations in the built environment.