• Location: Redfern, Sydney
• Salary: $80,000 – $85,000 (plus super).
• Job Type: Full time

USE YOUR SKILLS FOR GOOD

Your work can change the world. Join an award-winning full service agency whose clients include some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading nonprofit and for-purpose organisations.

• Spend your working day using your skills for good.
• Help great charities by developing direct marketing, advertising and communication campaigns that deliver results.
• Wide variety of interesting clients and projects.
• Based at our Redfern office in Sydney (subject to COVID restrictions).

CREATE COMMUNICATIONS THAT MATTER

Marlin Communications (Marlin) is a creative agency based in Redfern. We work with over 80 Australian and New Zealand organisations; it is a ‘who’s who’ of the Australian sector and includes Amnesty International, Bush Heritage Australia, Vinnies, WWF, RFDS, Plan International Australia, Fred Hollows, the Cancer Council and many more. We help them to execute fundraising, marketing, and direct response advertising campaigns.

We are now looking for a talented senior designer with a minimum of five years’ professional experience to join our busy agency team.

WHAT WE CREATE

Marlin specialises in creating engaging visual communications for clients in the charity and fundraising section. We create campaign identities, multi-channel campaigns, direct marketing-based appeals, branding and marketing communications including annual reports, small publications, websites, eDMs, brochures and flyers.

Our aim is to use creativity to help our clients achieve their missions – and we firmly believe that they deserve the highest quality of creative work. Because our clients have restricted budgets, such creative has to work hard to effectively achieve their goals.

THE ROLE

We are looking for someone who can work in our team, develop ideas, take a project from start to finish, work to a creative brief and consistently provide excellent work within tight deadlines.

We are seeking someone who can produce attractive, persuasive visual communications for our clients. This role is primarily for a strong print designer, who can independently create engaging layouts and has strong typographic skills. Your primary responsibility will be to bring ideas and designs to life, reporting into an Art Director. 

In particular a Senior Designer’s role will cover 3 key areas, including conceptual and creative development, drafting and design, and contributing to productivity and profitability. The role also covers 1 additional area, in front end web design.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’d love to hear from someone who has:

• Minimum of 5 years professional design/agency experience. Bachelor's degree or formal qualifications in design will be an advantage.
• Outstanding design and creative skills with an emphasis on layout and typography.
• Excellent attention to detail, ensuring work is output at the highest standards.
• Problem-solving skills, and the ability to identify, develop and deliver creative responses to briefs.
• Strong time management skills, experience working on multiple projects with competing priorities and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Great communication skills, and a willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues to bring ideas to life and implement feedback.
• A high proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite on a Mac platform (Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator) 
• A high level of offline, online and production knowledge.
• A professional, yet personable, client manner (you will be dealing with clients occasionally).
• Enthusiasm for working with good causes, and the maturity to meet the challenges of working within a resource-restricted setting.
• A friendly disposition and sense of humour would be an advantage – we are a tight team and work closely.

This role will also include a small digital component doing front end digital design.

Desirable skills

• A good understanding of digital design and best practice, Figma and UX. 

MORE ABOUT MARLIN

This position is genuinely unique in the sense that you will be doing work that we can prove has social impact.

You will work with clients that you can be sincerely passionate about and want to see succeed. We believe that true social change can only be achieved by transferring care; if you care, you can make others care – and if they care, they can act.

This position will only suit someone who can demonstrate their passion for using their design skills for good.

For more information about who we are, what we do, our clients and examples of work please visit our site at www.marlincommunications.com.

To apply

• You must have permission to reside and work in Australia
• Immediate start date - please apply as soon as possible
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

No agency interest please.