Graphic Designer

Department
Teaching and Learning Center

Salary
$52,981.00

Description
The Graphic Designer develops and designs visual and digital materials to support instructional initiatives, communications, and program reporting. This position provides support for digital tools, course design, and accessible content to enhance the user learning experience. This position also creates a range of media including promotional, web, and presentation materials while ensuring consistency with organizational branding and clear, effective communication.

Duties

Designs and produces visual, digital, and multimedia materials for programs, faculty development initiatives, workshops, newsletters, presentations, reports, websites, and communication needs while maintaining university brand standards

Creates and adapts instructional graphics, Canvas visuals, templates, icons, infographics, and presentation materials that support faculty teaching, course organization, and student-facing learning materials

Supports instructional video and multimedia projects by creating graphics, animations, title slides, lower thirds, visual assets, and other design elements for video lectures, tutorials, faculty development modules, and media projects

Assists with management and use of video studio, including preparing visual assets, supporting recording setup needs, maintaining basic studio readiness, and coordinating media production workflows for instructional and faculty development purposes

Applies accessibility-informed design practices to instructional, digital, video, and web materials, including readability, color contrast, alternative text guidance, layout structure, captioning coordination, and usability considerations

Supports website and digital content by creating, editing, formatting, and updating visual and web based materials related to programs, services, teaching resources, and faculty development

Designs visual materials for reporting, including infographics, charts, program summaries, impact reports, presentation decks, and other visual representations of program outcomes

Collaborates with staff, faculty, academic departments, and campus partners to clarify project needs, revise materials, manage timelines, coordinate assigned production tasks, and complete design projects

Marginal Duties

Performs all other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications
Education

Associate’s degree in Digital Media, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or a related field

Experience

Minimum of one (1) year of related job experience and must be able to show a portfolio of projects or work completed

License/Certification

None required

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Digital Media, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Instructional Media, Educational Technology, or a related field is preferred

Minimum of three (3) years of related job experience is preferred

Experience designing digital, instructional, video, web, accessibility-informed, or communications materials in a higher education environment is preferred

Experience supporting Canvas, learning management systems, faculty development, online learning, instructional video, multimedia production, websites, reports, or program communications is preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge

Knowledge of graphic design, digital media, web content, multimedia production, video editing, and related trends, issues, and accepted practices

Knowledge of university branding standards and accessibility-informed design practices for digital, instructional, video, web, and print materials

Familiarity with Canvas or other learning management systems, online learning environments, video production workflows, faculty development, and higher education communication needs

Skills

Strong design and technical skills, including proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud or comparable design software, photo editing tools, video editing tools, animation or motion graphics tools, and digital content creation platforms

Skill in creating clear, accessible, visually engaging materials for instructional, video, web, presentation, print, promotional, and reporting purposes

Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills

Abilities

Ability to manage multiple design and multimedia projects, meet deadlines, clarify project needs, and adapt materials for different audiences and formats

Ability to work effectively with faculty, staff, academic departments, and campus partners in a diverse university environment

Ability to translate instructional, programmatic, video, and assessment-related information into clear visual formats while maintaining university branding and accessibility expectations

Work Location and Physical Demands
Primary Work Location

Works in an office environment

Physical Demands

Work is performed in a typical interior work environment which does not subject the employee to any unpleasant elements; individual has discretion in relation to walking, standing, etc., and has minimal exposure to physical risks.

Must have precise hand-eye coordination, good spatial awareness, and the ability to identify and distinguish colors

Must have the ability to move items of up to 50 lbs.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.

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