Multimedia Designer

Role Title: Multimedia Designer

Salary: £30,201.00 - £35,781.00 GBP Annual

Location: Glasgow, Darlington or Llandudno

Pension: A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Advert Closing Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026

Is it time you unlocked your potential?

Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.

Our Values

Culture is at the hear of everything we do at SLC and we are guided by our five values which help make SLC a great place to work:

• Honesty : We act with integrity and transparency, sharing information openly and addressing challenges with courage.
• Empowerment : We enable people to take initiative, make impactful decisions, and continuously learn and grow.
• Accountability : We deliver on commitments, own our successes and mistakes, and strive for quality outcomes.
• Respect : We value diverse perspectives, actively listen, and create an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
• Trust : We collaborate across teams, build dependable relationships, and work as one to deliver for our customers.

These values are more than words – they guide our decisions, shape our collaborations, and strengthen our impact on the students we serve.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Multimedia Designer who can quickly turn ideas and complex information into clear, accessible and engaging content.

You’ll bring a broad multimedia skill set spanning graphic design, video, audio, motion graphics, presentations and digital publishing. You’ll understand how layout, typography, imagery, accessibility and user experience work together to create content that is easy to understand and effective for its intended audience.

Working across a varied portfolio of organisational priorities, you’ll create high-quality content for reports, presentations, our intranet, GOV.UK, colleague communications and other corporate publications. You’ll be comfortable taking broad or developing briefs, quickly identifying the underlying communication need and recommending a creative approach that is effective and proportionate.

You’ll work closely with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, providing confident professional advice and constructively challenging ideas where another solution would better meet the audience’s needs. You’ll be able to manage competing priorities, work independently and translate briefs into strong creative solutions quickly, combining pace with accuracy, accessibility and attention to detail.

The role offers the opportunity to make a visible contribution across SLC, with a particular focus on supporting internal communications and wider organisational priorities through thoughtful, practical and high-quality multimedia content.

As part of your application, please provide a link to a portfolio or examples of relevant work across different multimedia formats. During the interview, you’ll be asked to select one project and spend up to five minutes explaining the brief, your personal contribution, the creative and accessibility decisions you made, and the outcome.

What you Bring

• Working proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects Premiere Pro, (or in an equivalent design programmes) and O365 products including designing in Word, PowerPoint etc, and video editing software
• Highly skilled written and verbal communications and ability use storytelling and visual techniques to explain complicated things simply
• Highly developed organisational, time and project management skills to ensure co-ordination of content creation and sign off. Must enjoy the challenge of producing high-quality work while delivering at pace with little requirement for supervision
• Demonstratable experience of graphic design, motion graphics, typography and multimedia design for a variety of on and offline channels (websites/intranets, social media etc). Experience of print requirements and deadlines using brand guidelines
• Degree, relevant qualification or comparable experience in creative communications

Benefits

You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
• Option to buy/sell annual leave
• Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
• Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
• Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme

To find out what it’s like to work at Student Loans Company click here:SLC Careers

The Legal Bits

We’ll need you to confirm that you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some background checks we need to complete before you can start with us.This will include employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.

SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010.Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ***email_hidden***