Team Leader

Use your skills graphic design skills to make a meaningful difference to the lives of veterans and their families.

**31st October, 2024**:
RSL Queensland is a dynamic, not-for-profit organisation delivering innovative programs and initiatives that support veterans and their families. After more than a century, our purpose _- _to provide care, commemoration and camaraderie _- _is as strong as ever.

With Australia’s most successful prize home lottery backing us, we’re able to provide life-changing support services, fund world-first research, and use state-of-the-art tech to help more veterans in better ways. As a member of our team, you’ll have access to advanced technology, skilled co-workers, interesting projects, and the opportunity to expand your career.

And most importantly, you’ll be making a real difference in veterans’ and their families’ lives.

**Why work at RSL Queensland**. Open, flexible, supportive, empowering - they’re some of things our team love most about RSL Queensland. Depending on your role, you’ll have the tools and flexibility to work in a hybrid way that balances your lifestyle and the requirements of the team.

**What else makes us great**:

- Option to salary package up to $15,900 per year on living expenses, and claim further tax-saving benefits on top
- Extensive training/development opportunities
- Bring your whole authentic self to work each day and be part of a supportive environment
- You’re gifted 3 additional days of leave at Christmas
- Financial support and study leave to undertake higher educational courses related to work
- Work in an environment that values all voices - have an influence, be the difference
- Benefits Hub that includes lifestyle discounts from hundreds of leading stores and services

**Now, a bit about the role**:
The Team Leader - Visual Design is responsible for creating - and guiding the Visual Design Specialists in creating - marketing communications assets. This role offers a varied scope of work from traditional graphic design work including anything from supporting strategic framework documents to helping with campaign design for our Veteran Services. Not to mention contribution to large scale commemorative events such as Anzac Day and Remembrance Day to name a few.

This role also contributes leadership, creativity and ideas to their Creative team colleagues and other projects within the Marketing and Communications Business Unit, enhancing their colleagues’ collective creative output, energy and innovation.

This is a permanent full-time position, that may occasionally require travel and work outside normal business hours (for which there is time in lieu).

**What’s required to succeed**:
This role will suit someone with previous experience leading a creative team, who enjoys fast-paced, diverse work in a highly collaborative team environment. There is a lot of big picture problem solving in this role, and the team are highly regarded and trusted within our business. Previous experience in maintaining strong brand identity will also be favourable.
- Tertiary qualification in Graphic or Visual Design, Marketing or a closely related field. 5+ years’ experience in an internal Graphic or Visual Design role or similar role.
- Experience in consistently implementing and ideating assets within a consistent visual brand identity.
- Experience in consistently delivering creative assets which meeting internal client needs while requiring mínimal supervision.
- Strong graphic and digital designer with expert skill across the Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Acrobat.
- Ability to manage workload and competing priorities.
- Design for print experience necessary.
- Art direction experience on-set ideal.
- Experience writing photography briefs favourable.
- Photography and/or video production/post-production experience favourable.

Embracing collaboration and innovation, we work as one to lead the change veterans need. We’re not afraid to go the extra mile or seek better ways of doing things. We look out for each other; we value all voices and respect perspectives that may differ from our own; and everything we do, we do with heart.