Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" – an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.
Unit overview
The Western Communications team provides strategic advice to university senior leadership, faculty, staff and teams of internal and external communications staff across Western in order to build the university’s brand on a local, national and global scale.
We're looking for a creative Motion Graphic Designer who can transform ideas into engaging visual experiences across digital, social, video, web, and print. This is an opportunity to bring creativity to life through modern graphic design, compelling animations, and interactive content that connects with audiences and strengthens one of Canada's leading universities.
Working alongside marketing and communications professionals, you'll create everything from dynamic social media campaigns, web graphics, digital advertisements, presentations, and print materials. Your work will help showcase Western's people, research, programs, and community while ensuring every project reflects our brand and delivers a consistent, engaging experience.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining traditional graphic design, layout, colour theory and typography with motion and animation to create content that captures attention in an increasingly digital world. If you're passionate about creating meaningful digital experiences, thrive in a collaborative environment, and love turning concepts into impactful creative work, we'd love to hear from you.
Ideal candidate
The ideal candidate will have a 3 year community college diploma in graphic design, visual arts, or a related discipline, along with experience in graphic, interactive and digital design, preferably within a complex or multi-stakeholder environment.
They are a creative and progressive motion graphic designer with an ability to bring out of the box solutions. They have a strong understanding of the latest graphic design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After-Effects, Animate, Google Web Designer and Figma.
They bring a strong ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, excellent communication skills to effectively convey design processes, ideas, and solutions. The successful candidate is detail-oriented, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of quality. Experience supporting large brands, post-secondary institutions, or mission-driven organizations is considered an asset.
Western Values Diversity
The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Western is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation, and persons of any gender identity or gender expression.
Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please contact Human Resources or phone 519-661-2194.
This is an 18 month temporary full time contract opportunity with a benefits package. The base salary will be $62,480 to $89,040 per annum. Starting salary will be aligned with the successful candidate’s experience, skills, and demonstrated qualifications.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. This position is an existing vacancy. This position is fully in-person, on-site.
