Junior Designer 2024

Type: Trainee
Region: London

Privately funded and headquartered in London, newcleo was launched in 2021 – and since raised a total of EUR 400m – to be an innovator in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean, economic and practically inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.

With visionary co-founders, newcleo capitalises on thirty years of R&D activity in metal-cooled fast reactors and liquid-lead cooling systems, and our senior management and advisory team can boast hundreds of years in cumulative hands-on experience.

Counting around 600 highly skilled employees across Europe, newcleo has business, scientific, operations and industrial manufacturing capabilities in a vertically integrated model designed to deliver its ambitious timeline for its plan-to-market.

newcleo’s technology, mostly comprising a novel approach to already qualified solutions, addresses equally well the three challenges affecting the nuclear industry to date: waste, safety and cost.

• Waste: fast reactors are capable of efficient “burning” (i.e., fission) of depleted uranium, plutonium and Minor Actinides. When operated with MOX fuel generated from reprocessed nuclear waste, newcleo’s reactors not only ensure sustainability by closing the fuel cycle, but can also boost energy independence.
• Safety: lead-cooled reactors operate at atmospheric pressure. The properties of lead (thermal properties, boiling point, chemical and shielding properties) together with newcleo’s passive safety systems ensure very high levels of safety.
• Cost: newcleo’s reactor design has been optimised over the last 20 years leading to the concept of an ultra-compact and transportable 200MWe module with improvements in energy density compared to other technologies. Costs are kept low by means of simplicity, compactness, modularity, atmospheric pressure operation and elevated output temperature.

newcleo is also working to significantly invest in MOX fuel manufacturing in developed countries, extracting energy from the current nuclear industry by-products. newcleo is ready to develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will help humanity reach zero emissions, and mitigate of global warming.

Overview of the role

This is a role within the newcleo’s communications team, reporting to the Head of Group Communications and based in London.

The Junior Graphic Designer will be responsible for working alongside and supporting the Brand Graphic and Web Design Specialist in implementing the visual and Brand strategy consistently through all the Communications channels and initiatives.

The role holder will work very closely with all colleagues in the Communications team in the UK France and Italy as well as internal communications and social media colleagues and external agencies that support us in different aspects of our communications.

The Junior Graphic Designer will demonstrate attention to details, a design-thinking mindset, willing to learn and a professional approach to feedback, time, and deadlines.

The successful candidate will need to develop internal relationships that are strong, credible and trustworthy and demonstrate a proactive mindset with a combination of rigour and creativity and also an appreciation of current communications styles.

Main duties/role and responsibilities

• Familiarity with Brand guidelines, images, components, and overall Brand identity
• Works within existing Brand guidelines and designs to version out print collateral, e-mails, and digital assets for our website and social media channels
• Works within existing PowerPoint templates to create beautiful and legible presentations
• Works as part of a design team, collaborating with other designers, copywriters, project managers and other roles
• Assisting with the selection of photos and images for websites, newsletters, social media channels and internal communications
• Keeping image libraries organised and selecting/editing final images
• Gathers information and materials needed from designated individuals to accomplish tasks
• Assisting with online and in person events where required, and generally across the team if necessary
• Keeping up with the latest design trends and technologies, continuously learning and improving their skills
• Reviewing designs for errors before printing or publishing and make necessary corrections

Attributes & experience required

• Strong eye for Design and Design strategy
• Strong knowledge of PowerPoint is a must
• Knowledge of the Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
• Adobe Premiere and After Effects experience is a plus
• A basic understanding or experience with a CMS is a plus
• Strong photography and photo editing skills for adjusting colours, cropping, and retouching
• Comfortable using an Adobe InDesign and Illustrator workflow for print projects
• Degree level educational background
• Fluent English, additional languages desirable especially French or Italian
• Proven work experience in a similar design role
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form
• Ability to deliver creative content (text, image and video)
• Ability to repurpose and/or edit content for multiple platforms
• Familiarity with web design
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritise work efficiently
• An experience or understanding of regulated industries and start-up/scale-up environments (desirable)
• High level of integrity, trust and transparency
• Good emotional intelligence and teamwork orientation
• Detail-oriented, hands on, able to take initiative and ownership of design tasks