Graphic Designer - 6-Month Fixed Term Contract

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date:  COB Sunday 7 April 2024. Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

• 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
• Join an Award-Winning Fund Provider 
• Sydney Located - Hybrid Working - Blend of CBD Office & Home 

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds. We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Role 

Rest’s purpose is to create super our members love, so we’re on a mission to make super simple.

Working within the Brand and Member Experience Team, you will be responsible for delivering effective creative and design solutions which are differentiated across a range of communication channels. You’ll leverage insights to inform the design of content to ensure that Rest member’s experience is optimal.

As a brand advocate, you will support the application of brand guidelines across all design. Whilst also applying innovative thinking, creativity, and customer centricity that helps make Super simple and assists members in understanding complex financial products and concepts.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Create and execute designs for communications across a variety of content and assets (predominantly digital) with the aim of ensuring all material is on-brand in terms of visual execution.
• Work in conjunction with copywriters and designers in the team to creatively solve briefs in a differentiated, innovation and effective way.
• Deliver work across multiple projects at one time whilst maintaining high attention to detail.
• Able to think strategically and creatively to solve briefs and have a natural flair for creativity.
• Collaborate with other teams within Rest including Member Experience, Digital, Product and Operations, as well as external agency partners to ensure consistent design across Rest’s communication channels.
• Leverage best practice design expertise to optimise the efficacy of communications.
• Stay abreast of current best practices and champion adoption of best practice design.

Required qualifications, experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Tertiary level qualifications (e.g. diploma) in graphic design and/or visual communications.
• 2+ years graphic design experience.
• Experience working as a designer either in an inhouse marketing team or in an agency environment.
• Experience designing for digital channels (paid, owned, earned).
• Solid knowledge and use of Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Motion graphic design skills favourable
• Prior experience using Figma is favouranle
• Excellent time management skills in order to meet deadlines and workflow under pressure.
• Highly developed initiative and creativity.
• Knowledge and use of Microsoft 365 applications (i.e. Powerpoint, Word.

Benefits

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia) 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops) 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

** Applications should include samples from your work portfolio and your CV **

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 31 December 2022. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier