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Leidos, the implementor for the Ameren Illinois award-winning Energy Efficiency Program, seeks a Graphic Designer. Under the leadership of the Senior Graphic Designer, the Graphic Designer works to create various marketing campaigns and collateral. Under the leadership of the Senior Graphic Designer and Marketing Director and in collaboration with the Marketing Team, the Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating marketing collateral and build brand awareness to encourage Program participation and help achieve energy savings goals.

The Mission: Leidos is a trusted and technology-focused solutions provider. The consulting group of approximately 100 employees is primarily engaged in private sector power opportunities and offers consulting services, independent engineering services, mergers & acquisition consulting, market analysis, and transmission study services.Our highly knowledgeable engineers and consultants work across functions to collaborate and challenge each other to innovate for our clients.

Job Location: This position will be a hybrid role in addition to up to 10% of travel required. There is strong preference for the successful candidate to be located (or relocate to) in the Ameren Illinois service territory https://www.ameren.com/illinois/company/about-ameren/service-territory (roughly the southern two-thirds of Illinois). The Ameren Illinois service territory includes several large to mid-size communities such as Galesburg, Quincy, Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana, Danville, Decatur, Springfield, Charleston-Mattoon, Effingham, Mt. Vernon, Marion, Carbondale, and Metro East (Belleville, O'Fallon, Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville).

Primary Responsibilities

• Creation of marketing creative in collaboration with Marketing Project Managers to ensure that marketing measures will help to meet performance goals
• Assist in the development of annual marketing plans and annual design guide
• Assist in providing review and quality control of all marketing collateral for branding, consistency and accuracy
• Work together with Design Team members for design concepts and innovation
• Participate in regular meetings across the Program to ensure marketing support is captured and taking the necessary actions
• Assist in creating and tracking necessary project timelines, design action items through project management system
• Assist with partners within the Program to maximize marketing reach and joint efforts, where needed
• Enforce brand standards to ensure a high-level corporate voice and brand awareness

Basic Qualifications

• A high school diploma and one plus (1+) year(s) of prior work experience in design, marketing or related field
• One or more (1+) year(s) of project management experience
• General knowledge of media production, communication and dissemination techniques and methods, including alternative ways to inform via written oral and visual media
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong creative development skills
• Exceptional organizational, management and interpersonal skills
• Can-do attitude, will to succeed and desire to learn
• Exceptional attention to detail, quality and follow through
• Professional demeanor and dedication to delivering unparalleled customer service to the client
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong knowledge and proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications
• General knowledge of email marketing and design deployment systems
• Strong collaboration spirit

Although this role will primarily support the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program, Leidos will be the employer of the person, Ameren Illinois does not take any role in selecting the person for employment, and Ameren Illinois will not have any role in managing the work performed by the person.

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We take care of our employees. Leidos seeks the best and the brightest, and in return, we invest in you, with an eye on your future, through career advancement, growth opportunities and continuous improvement via mentoring, formal and informal project management training and assistance with obtaining pertinent certifications. We challenge you to help solve some of the world's toughest problems, and reward you with a welcoming culture that recognizes the importance of a strong work/life balance, as well as competitive compensation and benefits. We believe that diversity and inclusion make us all better and offer the chance to have fun and make a difference

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.