Graphic Designer- Pursuits

Summary

SWCA Environmental Consultants is an employee-owned environmental consulting firm providing environmental services across the United States. The Pursuit Graphic Designer creates visual communications for proposals, presentations, and business development efforts, translating complex technical information into compelling graphics, infographics, maps, diagrams, and data visualizations. The role collaborates with proposal, marketing, business development, and technical teams to support win strategies and maintain brand consistency.

Responsibilities

• Leads design processes or projects from conception to completion. This includes spearheading marketing campaigns, brand-building events, and multimedia projects, ensuring that each project aligns with strategic objectives and is delivered on time
• Analyzes and interprets both internal and external business challenges, offering creative solutions and best practices to enhance efficiency and achieve company goals. Uses technical expertise in graphic design and multimedia to offer innovative solutions
• Exhibits a strong technical proficiency in graphic design and multimedia that is grounded in a thorough understanding of fundamental theories, practices, and concepts. Applies this expertise to create compelling visual content that supports marketing objectives
• Contributes to strategy development by leveraging past experiences and market research. Works collaboratively with leadership to guide decision making within the graphic design and multimedia domain, ensuring that creative strategies effectively support broader marketing goals
• Coordinates and manages project schedules to ensure the timely completion of tasks. Oversees project team efforts, ensuring that all members are effectively contributing to project milestones and deliverables
• Implements rigorous quality control measures to verify the accuracy and completeness of all creative materials. Reviews and edits marketing and proposal graphics for clarity, coherence, and compliance with requirements, maintaining high standards of quality across all outputs
• Follows applicable federal, Tribal, state, local, industry, contractual, and company regulations, standards, and specifications
• Performs related work as assigned
• Design & prepare proposal, presentation, and pursuit-related visual materials that strengthen messaging and support business development efforts
• Create graphics, infographics, maps, diagrams, data visualizations, and other visual assets that simplify complex information and communicate SWCA's value
• Partner with proposal, marketing, business development, and technical teams to develop strategic visual solutions that enhance competitiveness and support win strategies
• Maintain and evolve SWCA's library of proposal graphics, templates, and visual assets while ensuring brand consistency across client-facing materials
• Embrace SWCA's core value of Always Learning by exploring innovative approaches to visual storytelling and continuously improving how the firm communicates its expertise, solutions, and value to clients

Skills

• Knowledge normally obtained through post-secondary education or training
• Three years of relevant, progressively responsible experience
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communication, or related field
• Three (3) years of graphic design experience
• With the ability to effectively manage multiple projects
• Ability to collaborate with pursuit teams and technical experts to solve complex communication challenges
• Experience designing and producing large, complex document layouts
• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, color, imagery and layout
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop on a Windows-based platform
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing long-form documents in InDesign
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, including advanced presentation design
• Familiarity with print production and digital publishing environments
• Ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling visual communications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• With the ability to collaborate effectively with pursuit teams, marketing professionals, and technical subject matter experts to create persuasive visual storytelling solutions
• Excellent creative thinking, organization, problem-solving, and time-management skills, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Five years of related experience is preferred
• Preferably with at least two years of experience designing proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, or other business development materials in an in-house corporate creative department or design firm
• Five (5) years of graphic design experience
• Experience/background working in the environmental consulting industry or other science field

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Knowledge normally obtained through post-secondary education or training
• Three years of relevant, progressively responsible experience
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communication, or related field
• Three (3) years of graphic design experience
• with the ability to effectively manage multiple projects
• Ability to collaborate with pursuit teams and technical experts to solve complex communication challenges
• Experience designing and producing large, complex document layouts
• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, color, imagery and layout
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop on a Windows-based platform
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing long-form documents in InDesign
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, including advanced presentation design
• Familiarity with print production and digital publishing environments
• Ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling visual communications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• with the ability to collaborate effectively with pursuit teams, marketing professionals, and technical subject matter experts to create persuasive visual storytelling solutions
• Excellent creative thinking, organization, problem-solving, and time-management skills, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team

Nice to Haves

• bachelor's degree preferred
• Five years of related experience is preferred
• preferably with at least two years of experience designing proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, or other business development materials in an in-house corporate creative department or design firm
• Five (5) years of graphic design experience
• Experience/background working in the environmental consulting industry or other science field

Benefits

• Eligible employees may also receive performance-based bonuses.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• 401(k) with profit sharing
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Wellness programs
• Professional development opportunities
• Career Landscape support resources to accelerate the growth of staff
• Flexibility to work remotely, in a hybrid capacity, or from an SWCA office