Starting Salary: £29,930

Job Type: Fixed Term (12 months)

Location: Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days at our Head office in Lancaster

Contracted Hours: 35 hours per week Monday to Friday (flexible working options considered)

Are you passionate about creating visually stunning designs that leave a lasting impression? As a Graphic Illustrator for the Ascentis group of companies, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining our strong visual and creative presence across various mediums, from printed materials to the web and social media. Join us and unleash your creativity to produce on-brand illustrations, graphics, and collateral that elevate our brand identity and captivate our audience.

About the role:

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the International Dyslexia Learning Solutions (IDL) product development teams, ensuring an understanding of design requirements, objectives, and timelines while aligning with our brand identity. Your responsibilities extend to managing a backlog of design projects, and prioritising tasks based on business needs and project deadlines.

Moreover, you'll contribute to the development and maintenance of brand management strategies and guides for IDL, ensuring consistency across all visual materials. Your creative input will define appropriate visual styles for illustrations, graphics, and collateral. Presenting initial drawings and storyboards to stakeholders for feedback and approval will be key to ensuring alignment with project goals. Leveraging graphic design software, including Photoshop, InDesign, and Adobe Illustrator, you'll craft high-quality illustrations and graphics.

Furthermore, you'll develop motion graphics and animations to enhance visual storytelling across digital platforms. Staying updated on design trends and advancements, you'll continuously improve your skills to maintain relevance in the field. Collaboration with internal departments will foster teamwork, enabling the achievement of common goals. You'll conduct research and gather visual references to inform design concepts, ensuring innovation and relevance. Finally, participating in creative discussions will allow you to contribute new ideas for visual communication and branding initiatives, drawing on your strong understanding of typography, layout, and composition principles to create visually engaging designs.

What We're Looking For:

We are seeking a highly creative individual with a passion for graphic design and a keen eye for detail. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication and collaboration skills, allowing for seamless interaction with cross-functional teams. A strong understanding of design principles and trends, coupled with proficiency in graphic design software, will be essential. We value adaptability and a proactive approach to learning, as well as the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Proficiency in image editing and digital drawing software, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, and Figma.

If you're ready to bring your creativity to the forefront and make a meaningful impact with your designs, then we want to hear from you!

The full Job Description can be found by clicking here.

Further information

Closing date: Friday, 5 December 2025

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Sean Hanratty, Software Development Manager at [email protected].

We reserve the right to close the job vacancy early if we find an appointable candidate or receive a high volume of applicants.

This job does not meet the eligibility requirements to qualify for visa sponsorship.

About us

We are proud to be one of the UK’s leading educational charity groups, encompassing an awarding organisation, a provider of dyslexia intervention software and an online training organisation. Our enthusiastic people bring genuine passion and natural energy to everything that they do and through their infectious energy they transform the lives of thousands of people each year through the power of education. It has never been a more exciting time to join The Ascentis Group as we continue our journey of growth across the UK and overseas.

We are market leading in the education sector and the specialist areas we operate within, maintaining the #1 provision for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in the UK as well as being a leading Access Validating Agency. We are based in Lancaster but we have a national reach, with a significant customer base in London. We have recently secured two major achievements, winning the Innovation of the Year and Awarding Organisation of the Year at the 2024 Federation of Awarding Bodies awards.

International Dyslexia Learning Solutions (IDL) is part of the wider Ascentis Group providing specialist multi-sensory software programmes to primary and secondary schools in the UK and internationally. The focus of IDL is to provide learning solutions to those with literacy and numeracy needs.  Today the software is used by thousands of children across the world.

The Ascentis Group is made up of brilliant people, unique in terms of background, personality, characteristics, experience and skill. We value our people for the differences they bring to the table and believe this diversity is powerful. We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

To find out what our employees have to say about working at Ascentis watch the video found here.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays, birthday day off, closure days gifted during the Christmas period, increased annual leave with long service and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme (up to a maximum of 43 days)
• Competitive pension benefits, including a salary sacrifice scheme
• Access to Informal Flexibility, allowing you to flex your working times and location where viable
• Incremental service benefits as a family-friendly employer, including enhanced Maternity, Neonatal, Paternity, Shared Parental, Adoption Leave and Pay, Sick Pay, Life Insurance, and Paid Compassionate Leave
• Access to state-of-the-art office and break facilities, such as bean-to-cup coffee machine, vending machine, pool table, Xbox, outdoor seating, dressing room (with access to hair dryers, straighteners, airers, shower facilities), Harry Potter reading room, employee library and more
• Free parking, locked bike storage shed
• Access to car electric charging points (charges payable by employee)
• Tailored learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Home and Tech Scheme
• Discounted gym membership at 3-1-5 Health Club
• 24-hour employee helpline and a proactive focus on wellbeing
• Aviva DigiCare+ health app with access to virtual GP appointments, annual health check and more
• Reward and recognition scheme, regular team building and communication activities

Do you like the sound of Ascentis, but think your skills might suit another role?

We also have other vacancies available. Take a look at our website for more! www.ascentis.co.uk/jobs