Graphic Designer

Position Details

• Part-Time 0.5 FTE | Fixed term until June 2028

• Higher Education Officer Level 6 | $94,456 - $100,710 p.a.pro-rata

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country

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About the Role

Reporting to the Manager, Marketing and Communications, the Graphic Designer will play a key role in delivering high-quality visual content across campaigns, publications, and promotional materials.

The incumbent will develop creative concepts and produce engaging print and digital content tailored to diverse audiences. Working closely with internal stakeholders, the Graphic Designer translates briefs into effective design solutions aligned with ARIIA’s brand and style guidelines, ensuring consistency and clarity across all outputs.

The position also develops templates, presentations, and visual assets to support staff communication, and contributes to the creation and distribution of multimedia content to enhance organisational reach and engagement.

Please refer to the attached position description, for a comprehensive list of roles and responsibilities.

About You

You bring a strong, well-rounded skill set across both print and digital design, with demonstrated proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Premiere Pro. You also have advanced experience using Canva to produce high-quality, on-brand content efficiently. Your solid understanding of pre-press preparation and print production ensures accuracy and consistency from concept through to final output.

With extensive experience in digital-first content creation, you are confident producing engaging assets tailored to a range of platforms and audiences. You are highly organised, with excellent time-management skills that allow you to prioritise competing deadlines, exercise sound judgement, and work independently with minimal supervision.

You approach your work with flexibility and curiosity, readily adapting to new challenges and embracing opportunities to expand your skills. You are a quick learner who stays current with industry trends and tools. A tertiary qualification in a design-related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant qualifications and practical experience, underpins your professional capability.

Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) continues to transform the way we care for Older Australians. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Aged Care, ARIIA delivers activities across three workstreams to improve aged care for all Australians. Bringing together consumers, industry and researchers, ARIIA translates research into practice to modernise and pave the way for sector wide improvements, making a real and meaningful change to the aged care sector.   

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

• Flexible working arrangements

• Our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders initiative

• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers 

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards.

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan 

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy 

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will be required by Flinders University before the successful applicant can commence in this position. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role.

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit a CV, along with a Suitability Statement, as a separate document.  This should be no more than 3 pages, and address the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description

• Please also provide a document of no more than 3 pages, with ten to twelve examples of your work.

For more information regarding this position, please contact Tom Wilson

Certification

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At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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