Junior Designer (North Sydney)

**TAFE NSW Life-Changing Careers**

**Junior Designer**

**Location Negotiable across Sydney Metro region (pending campus availability)**

**Permanent Full-time**

**Base Salary range of $94,923
- $102,223 plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.

That’s why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to transform someone’s world. Whether that’s inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish.

We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.

**We invest in our people**

At TAFE NSW, you will discover a diverse, dynamic, and collaborative environment, where you can innovate, create value, and do meaningful work.

We provide you with tools and ongoing training and career development, health and wellbeing programs, and depending on your role, a 35 hour working week with a variety of flexible working options.

**About the role**

Join our growing team in a newly established opportunity of Junior Designer (internally known as Associate Designer) and play a vital role in bringing design ideas to life across TAFE NSW products and services. Your job is all about creating seamless and intuitive experiences for both students and staff, consistent with our Design Library.

You’ll spend a significant amount of your time embedded within diverse TAFE NSW product or project teams. As well as bringing your creative smarts, you will also be supported by a team of experienced designers to adopt our design principles and ways of working that will set the stage for delivering great experiences for 300,000 students and 17,000 staff. Your role will span the end-to-end design lifecycle, from discovery, ideation and implementation to review and iteration.

Outside of the embedded team commitment, you’ll hang out with the wider design team, collaborating on joint projects, solving problems together, and swapping ideas and stories that will all contribute to an evolving and relaxed design group.

**About You**

You are a self-motivated designer with strong problem-solving skills and initiative and have an easy-going manner.

**You demonstrate the essential requirements**:

- Degree and or qualification in design or experience.
- Experience in the design process, including some design research experience and skills in design thinking, prototyping and usability testing.
- Experience in creating and delivering production ready UX, UI designs that is accessible across Platforms
- Skilled in design tools such as Figma, and collaboration tools such as Miro and a knowledge of accessible design practices including latest WCAG standards.

If this advert is intriguing, we would love to hear from you!

To find out more about the role, click to view the Position Description.

**Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion**

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.

If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.

**Applications close 11.55pm AEST 25 August 2025**
- Your current resume
- Copies of your qualifications (upload as one PDF file). Certified copies preferred; these will be required if successful for the role.

**Targeted Question**: Please share one specific example in your work experience where you were tasked to complete a design that you later learnt was not possible or not an ideal outcome, explaining:

- The situation
- How you resolved it
- Who and how you communicated the change of plan
- The result

This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct.

To be eligible for positions at TAFE NSW, you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport.

A talent pool, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently becomes vacant, may be filled via this recruitment. Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3q9mpl