Graphic Designer

About Us

Maribyrnong City Council is dedicated to fostering a connected, inclusive, and vibrant community in Melbourne's inner west, recognized for its rapid growth, rich diversity, creativity, and strong community spirit. The Council commits to providing innovative services that support residents, businesses, and visitors now and into the future.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a skilled Graphic Designer who blends creativity with effective communication to animate the City of Maribyrnong's visual presence. This role values design as a tool to simplify information, enhance accessibility of services, and strengthen community connections.

The Graphic Designer will produce engaging designs for various media including print, digital platforms, social media, websites, campaigns, events, and community outreach. Responsibilities include ensuring all outputs are clear, accessible, consistent, and distinctly representative of Maribyrnong.

The role also involves maintaining and developing the brand identity, creating templates and design assets, managing the Digital Asset Management System, and assisting colleagues with confident communication.

The ideal candidate enjoys transforming complex concepts into straightforward, appealing visuals, collaborates well, solves problems thoughtfully, pays close attention to detail, and takes pride in delivering impressive and effective design work reflecting the creative, diverse, and welcoming spirit of Maribyrnong.

Key Responsibilities

• Design visually appealing and effective materials for multiple formats such as print, digital, social media, web, signage, campaigns, events, and community engagement.
• Maintain and promote the City of Maribyrnong's visual identity, keeping branding, templates, and resources contemporary, coherent, and user-friendly.
• Simplify complex council information into accessible and understandable visual content.
• Develop inclusive materials accommodating varying language, literacy, digital access, and information needs.
• Create and update style guides, templates, Canva resources, and shared design tools.
• Establish and support implementation of design, brand, and digital communication policies and procedures.

About You

• Possess a tertiary qualification in graphic design, visual communication, communication design, or an allied discipline; or possess equivalent relevant experience.
• Have multiple years of experience delivering high-quality design, branding, template creation, digital asset management, and production work in a dynamic organizational or community-oriented setting.
• Experience in local government, public sector, or community-focused environments, particularly with accessible communication, plain English, diverse audiences, service design, or place-based storytelling is highly valued.
• Skills in video editing, motion graphics, or basic animation for digital channels are advantageous.

Why Choose Maribyrnong?

• Engage in cross-functional work with a friendly, supportive, and professional multidisciplinary team.
• Benefit from a flexible and inclusive workplace culture.
• Contribute in a meaningful position within a values-driven organization.
• Enjoy a monthly accrued day off (ADO).

Additional Information

• Permanent full-time position classified as Band 6 with a salary range of $99,705 to $108,027 plus 12% superannuation and monthly accrued day off.
• Work location is Footscray, Melbourne.

Child Safety and Inclusion

Maribyrnong City Council prioritizes child safety and wellbeing and complies with relevant legislation and child safe standards. The recruitment process may include child safety screening appropriate to the role. The Council encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people with disabilities, and accommodates all candidates to ensure equitable hiring processes.