Infographic Designer (Digital), 6 Month Contract

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced creative visual team at The Telegraph. You will be joining the Graphics team where we continually look to transform information into compelling visual storytelling forms, underpinned by our graphic design and journalistic principles.

We want someone who is going to help shape the future of The Telegraph’s graphic journalism using their creativity to engage our audience with informative content. The ideal candidate will be able to adapt their visual ideas to different narrative types and apply them utilising relevant digital and print formats.

Key Responsibilities

• Create engaging information graphics for all of our digital platforms (App, Web, Social)
• Visually communicate complex subject matter in a clear and concise way
• Explore new approaches for presenting stories on our digital publishing platforms
• Work on breaking news, lead stories, investigations and longform features
• Interpret, edit and visualise data into engaging pieces of graphic journalism
• Report to the Director of Graphic Journalism, managing daily workflow
• Collaborate with: Editors, Reporters, Data Journalists, Producers, Designers, Developers, Animators, Illustrators, Video producers
• Research topics surrounding stories to further enhance the quality of graphics
• Review stories and come up with ideas to enhance the visual storytelling
• Assist newsroom colleagues with best practices and appropriate visual solutions
• Share technical developments with your colleagues to help progress the team’s capabilities
• Working daytime shifts, Monday to Friday

Key Skills

• Strong graphic design fundamentals (Typography, colour perception, composition, geometry etc)
• Growing knowledge of editorial design and visual storytelling within publishing
• Good understanding of graphic production on both print and digital platforms
• Experience in cartography and geospatial analysis (QGIS, MapShaper)
• Proficient in technical illustration (Adobe Illustrator. Experience in 3D programs a bonus)
• Competent in data visualisation tools (Raw, DataWrapper)
• Fundamental front-end code capabilities (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Extensive understanding of user focused design and interface design (Figma)
• Data analysis and editing, to establish trends and points of interest (Excel, Sheets. R or Python is a bonus)
• Solid grasp of mathematics to enable precision plotting and problem solving
• Good organisational skills and time management (Email, Trello)

The Successful Candidate will have

• A passion for data visualisation and visual storytelling
• An strong portfolio, showcasing graphic design and infographics
• Active interest in current affairs and global events
• Comprehensive understanding of media types and digital formats
• Previous experience in publishing is a bonus
• Naturally inquisitive, with excellent observation skills
• A keen pursuit for technical development and enhancing personal skills

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.