Multimedia Content Specialist
Salary: £33,683 pending 2024/25 pay award
Position: Permanent, Full Time, 37 Hours per week
Location: Birmingham/ Hybrid
We are brave, we are ambitious, we are honest, and we are Citizen!
Are you big on Storytelling?
Citizen is offering an exciting opportunity for a Multimedia Content Specialist to join our communications team and deliver high quality concepts to our customers and clients across a range of digital, print and visual media.
The successful candidate will be able to engage our audiences by creating visually compelling designs and engaging video content that helps achieve Citizen's goals of enhancing the brand identity and bringing to life in the storytelling fashion of Citizen's strategy and purpose.
In housing you can make a real difference, the role of Multimedia Content Specialist will involve:
- Produce finished design work, proofs and present final designs to internal clients
- Collaborate with other specialists in the communications team and across the business to incorporate work/ideas into the final product
- Develop creative and innovative design concepts, layouts, and visual assets for various projects that might include logos, branding materials, social media graphics, website elements, PowerPoints, posters, leaflets, Mailchimp templates.
- Presenting final design concepts, including specifications for fonts, images, colours, text and layout, to internal clients for their approval
- Owning the brand guidelines, be the gatekeeper and evolve them and develop brand toolkits to drive consistency and efficiency
- The subject matter expert to advise on what is technically possible for video and design and produce a proposal including, for example, the range and scope of the work and realistic timescales
- The primary in-house videographer, planning the shoot and edit footage in post-production edit and mix audio elements, including dialogue, music, and sound effects, to ensure high-quality audio for video projects
- Attend campaign planning sessions, coming up with new ideas and creative concepts for communication and marketing campaigns across all channels, to drive awareness, engagement, consideration and conversion.
As a Multimedia Content Specialist, we need you to have:
- Experienced in presenting work and contextualising the visual direction alongside customer insight
- High attention to detail and excellent proof-reading
- Advanced experience in directing, storyboarding, preparations, directing filming and editing
- Advanced graphic design experience and animated graphics for video use
- Solid understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, layout composition, and video editing techniques
- Proficiency in graphic design software and video/animation editing software
We would be really excited if you have:
- A knowledge of motion graphics, visual effects, and audio editing
- A relevant degree or similar qualification
- Previous experience in the housing sector
Our people are everything and we offer:
We will be an employer of choice and invest in our people
To deliver the best services for our customers we need employees who are passionate, committed and engaged. We will create a culture where every individual feels comfortable and confident to be themselves and the wellbeing of our employees is a priority. We will work together as one team and embrace our Citizen values.
We will attract and retain the best and brightest professionals, support them to achieve their potential, and reward and recognise them for the fantastic work they do.
Competitive terms and conditions
- Annual leave starts at 25 days per yearplus bank holidays
- Annual leave purchase scheme – option to buy up to an additional 5 days per year
- Enhanced family leave (maternity, paternity and adoption)
- Organisational Sick Pay
- Generous Pension Scheme – The option to contribute 4%, 6% or up to 10% which Citizen will match
- Life cover of three times your annual salary if you join the pension scheme
Health and Wellbeing
- We provide IT and Home Office equipment to support hybrid working
- Occupational Health
- EAP – a 24/7 telephone counselling service providing free, confidential advice.
- Cashback scheme – cashback on optical, dental, prescriptions and a range of other medical costs meaning the costs are covered for employees. The scheme also offers GP Access, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!
- Access to Citizen's Wellbeing initiatives and Wellbeing platform
Learning and Development
- Extensive learning and development opportunities.
- Opportunity to study for a professional qualification
- Opportunity to join the Staff Consultative Forum and EDI Forum
Here at Citizen, our purpose is to provide homes that are a foundation for life.
With over fifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK's most trusted social housing providers , Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns.
There are some fundamental challenges people in our communities' face, and we want to be an organisation which can help them deal with these. So, we are working to solve some of the most pressing issues around housing and homelessness.
We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect.
We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. As part of our recruitment process, we carry out robust safeguarding checks.
Further information on our selection process and Equality and Diversity commitment can be found at www.citizenhousing.org.uk
Closing date: 13th September
Please note we will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.