Graphic Artist - Level 4

Website & Graphic Design – At least 5 years of experience and use cases with the following:

• A portfolio of work including examples of at least 2 real-time projects
• Understanding of design thinking and design principals related to designing and developing graphics, user interface, user experience, content for website development, social media and print
• Designing layouts, typography, line composition, color, and other graphic design fundamentals
• Performs the most complex duties in design and preparation of electronic graphic artwork using various media
• Understanding component-based development within a CMS
• Experience in responsive development across all media platforms: web, mobile, etc..
• Experience working with an enterprise CMS platform such as Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
• Coding experience and understanding HTML 5, Bootstrap 4.0+, CSS 3
• Understanding of image optimization for web and mobile
• Confers with supervisors and others as to most appropriate media and method of design.
• Performs a full range of graphic art activity.
• Design and maintain websites.

User Acceptance Testing – At least 3 years of experience and use cases with the following:

• Building and running tests (ideally automated) to confirm the service or product meets user and stakeholder needs.
• Helping to discover problems while the service is being developed, not once it is live.
• Checking the operating environment to make sure test results are valid.
• Helping increase user and agency confidence in future service or product delivery
• Helping reduce the risk of reputational damage
• Recruiting and leading testing groups; running research sessions with users.
• Understanding accessibility issues and engage with team to build with equality

Digital Platforms, Tools, & Discipline – At least 3 years of experience and use cases with the following:

• Working with enterprise scale digital platforms and products
• Using of productivity and analysis tools to manage iterative delivery, such as JIRA, Google Analytics, Git Repository, MS TEAMS, Confluence
• Experience working in the Agile development methodology

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

UI/UX Design

• Experience in designing, managing, and optimizing websites
• Experience working in an enterprise component-based CMS
• Experience in wireframing, prototyping, mock-up creation, IA mapping, user flows
• Proficiency in HTML 5, Bootstrap 4.0+, CSS 3
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: including Adobe XD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Proficiency in Zeplin, Sketch, Miro
• An understanding of social media management and content creation
• Understanding of image and video optimization for online media
• Understanding and application of visual design principals
• Understanding responsive design
• Experience in Agile development process