Senior Graphic Designer

Role overview

Stride Mental Health is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to shape engaging creative across print, digital, and environmental channels. In this position, you will support multiple brand streams, work alongside Marketing, Fundraising, Partnerships, and other internal stakeholders, and help ensure every asset reflects a consistent, high-quality brand presence.

About the organisation

Stride is a mental health service provider focused on adults, young people, and early childhood intervention. The organisation’s name reflects its purpose and the role it plays in supporting recovery journeys.

What’s on offer

• Brisbane, Queensland-based role
• Permanent full-time employment
• Competitive base salary plus superannuation
• Salary packaging benefits of up to $15,899 tax-free
• Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
• 17.5% leave loading
• Access to Stride Rewards with discounts across hundreds of retailers in fashion, food, and fitness
• One paid wellbeing leave day each year
• Option to buy up to 5 extra leave days in a 12-month period, pro rata for part-time entitlement
• Paid parental leave support
• Strong training and professional development opportunities
• Supportive team culture

Role purpose

This is a senior, hands-on design position. You will both produce creative work directly and provide design direction and guidance to colleagues across the organisation. The role also involves acting as a brand guardian for Stride and its managed service brands, ensuring all output is aligned, polished, and effective for varied audiences.

Key responsibilities

• Protect and maintain brand identity across several brands on print and digital channels, including websites, intranet platforms, and social media.
• Plan, develop, and deliver high-quality visual communications.
• Update and refine brand guidelines for Stride and associated managed service brands.
• Partner with service and engagement teams to design presentations, infographics, flyers, newsletters, annual reports, conference materials, digital assets, EDMs, and signage.
• Contribute to tender submissions and business development collateral.
• Guide creative work for digital channels, including website content, social media, and broader content improvements.
• Build and maintain templates and design systems in Canva or similar tools.
• Deliver responsive customer service and build productive relationships with internal stakeholders and marketing partners.
• Work with external agencies and provide feedback to keep outputs consistent with brand standards.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in graphic design, visual communications, or marketing design, supported by a strong portfolio.
• Proven ability to create effective creative work for print, digital, social media, built environments, and websites.
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.
• Experience managing brand identity within complex or multi-brand organisations.
• Capability to develop digital content such as social media assets, web graphics, and EDMs using WordPress and Mailchimp.
• Strong concept development and visual storytelling ability, with the skill to simplify complex information.
• Excellent attention to detail, with strong judgment around layout, typography, and overall design quality.
• Well organised with the ability to juggle several projects and deadlines at once.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and strong collaboration skills across teams.
• Must be eligible to apply for, or already hold, a Blue Card.
• Must hold, or be willing to apply for, NDIS worker screening clearance.
• Experience in health, community services, government, or not-for-profit environments is desirable.
• Understanding of UX design principles is desirable.
• Motion graphics or video editing experience is desirable.
• Experience managing creative agencies or external suppliers is desirable.
• Knowledge of AI and interest in applying it responsibly in design is desirable.
• All successful applicants must complete required safeguarding screening checks before appointment.
• The role welcomes applications from diverse backgrounds, including people with lived experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities.
• Applicants should submit an online application with a CV and cover letter explaining their suitability for the role.
• Applications are reviewed as they are received, with the closing date set for 25 June 2026.

Additional information

Work arrangement: hybrid.

This position is a permanent full-time opportunity.

The role is based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

No salary figure was specified, but the package includes base pay plus superannuation and several employee benefits.

No vacancy count or start date was provided.